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Antarctica used to be covered in palm trees, says study
A new study examining 50-million-year-old ice from Antarctica indicates that the continent used to be covered in warm-weather flora like palm trees. And hey, maybe it could be again if carbon dioxide levels get too high! By “too high” we’re talking about really high — CO2 concentrations in the early Eocene epoch, the time period […]
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Behind the scenes at a big mountaintop-mining protest: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Over the weekend, protesters shut down part of a huge mountaintop-removal coal mining operation in West Virginia. One of the activists spills the dirt about police intimidation, abuse from local miners, and snubs from fellow protesters.
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Senators fiddle while nation burns
After three years of silence, the Senate finally held a hearing about the climate. Watch the video highlights and weep.
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Even David Letterman is cool enough to hate fracking
We expect Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to have incisive, funny takes on important green issues like fracking. But David Letterman? That guy hasn’t been cool since like 1991! [Ed. note: I used to watch Letterman in like 1991.] And yet, only like a year after the rest of America caught on about fracking, here’s Letterman […]
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This 1956 cartoon will convince you to marry oil and have oil babies
From the golden era of American cartoon propaganda.
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The secrets drillers can hide about the fracking in your backyard
The majority of states where fracking occurs have no disclosure laws at all, and those that do exist are pretty pitiful. Check out these maps to see how your state measures up.
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Coal-generating power company in Illinois likely to file for bankruptcy
Another indicator that coal-based power systems are an endangered species.
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The world’s about to get its first entirely solar-powered country
By next week, the tiny island nation Tokelau will be the first solar-powered country in the world.
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Use of dispersants at BP spill may have wiped out middle of the Gulf food web
Dispersants have been shown to kill plankton, a critical part of the food web. The impacts of this may not be known for years.
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Let the games begin: The rush for resources in Greenland
With signs of fast ice melt on the island, Europe is racing to figure out who gets what.
