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Climate change mitigation and adaptation are often discussed as though they are interchangeable. They are not.
Tips: Keep your phone in your pocket, and practice being water.
Big Oil has convinced some lawmakers to try to delay the inclusion of motor fuels in the state's carbon-trading system. Because it cares about struggling families.
This cash crop is keeping some farmers on the land, but the almond boom offers no long-term promise of security.
The fight over fracking has arrived more slowly in Michigan than in states like Pennsylvania and New York. But it's heating up.
If we aim to slow the rocketing population graph, all the evidence points in the same direction: prosperity cuts the birth rate, which will spare the planet.
In exchange for a new rescue truck, the town of Mattawa agreed to not to comment on any of TransCanada's operations for the next five years.
The thinking seems to be, “I hate you and your clean air! I’ll show you by mutilating my truck and burning my money one $3.86 gallon at a time!”
Great news for seals! For caribou, not so much.