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As everyone on the East Coast complains about the cold, it's important to keep in the mind that the rest of the world is really quite warm.
This is a few steps more complicated than burning your trash pile.
Run as a Democrat.
A reader worries that her banana peels are giving off bad gas. Umbra forks over some scrappy advice.
Farmers today don't muddy rivers as much as they used to -- but the full downstream picture is still quite dark.
ERM, which wrote the environmental study on Keystone XL, did dodgy and deceptive stuff, but none of it amounted to serious rule breaking, says the State Department's inspector general.
Obama has been as bad as Bush when it comes to curbing ground-level ozone pollution. But soon he'll have another chance to get ozone rules right.
Louie Psihoyos promises his new documentary about extinction is a real-life Ocean's 11.
The salty waste makes roads less slippery, but environmentalists warn that it contains nasty chemicals and radiation.