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99 red balloons can power 4,500 homes
This wins for most charming solar concept based on a one-hit wonder from the ‘80s, and maybe most charming solar concept ever.
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You be the pessimist! Here’s why the election gives me hope
What if grassroots activists joined with green D.C. insiders, got the president to kill the Keystone pipeline, and put a price on carbon? Bill McKibben explains why the election should make us all optimists.
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Climate change threatens to wipe out your coffee
Arabica coffee beans could be extinct in the wild by 2080.
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Superstorm Sandy hit Superfund sites, spread toxic pollution
Superstorm Sandy took a toll on East Coast Superfund sites, waterways and more. Cleanup is underway but the full impact is not yet known.
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Climate should be Obama’s No. 1 priority, say lots of people who aren’t tree-hugging enviros
The New Yorker calls on Obama to put climate action at the top of his agenda. So does Republican Christine Todd Whitman and other non-hippies.
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The moral logic of climate communication
Climate communicators have two moral obligations: (1) be accurate and (2) ensure that audiences understand and care. Too many people fixate on No. 1 and ignore No. 2.
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Population growth and the road to total societal meltdown
A new documentary follows overpopulation experiments with rats to offer insight into our own dangerously crowded world. The bad news: Crowded rats got fat and happy -- and then they all died.
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Do environmental groups deserve credit for big wins last week?
Green groups invested in eight U.S. Senate races, and their preferred candidates won in seven of them. What does that tell us? It's complicated.
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Climate change is stealing pandas’ food
Bamboo might seem hardy, but it does not deal well with temperature changes.
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Venice swamped by near-record flooding
Venice has always experienced periodic flooding, but it's happening more often these days.
