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Report after report claims to tell us how much climate action will cost this century. But no matter how much faux specificity our climate economic models produce, the fact is that we cannot know.
Comiconomist Yoram Bauman has a carbon tax plan for Washington state. The punch line: He thinks he can get both political parties on board.
Is this marine protected area the Potato Salad of crowdfunded conservation or the future of national parks?
A California company is fixing to fill up urban nooks and crannies with plugin farming systems.
The state hopes to save its rapidly disappearing coastline with a 50-year, $50 billion plan based on science that’s never been tested and money it doesn’t have. What could go wrong?
Alaska is the canary in the climate coal mine, and that bird is in trouble.
The coming global boom in wind power will be driven largely by China's rebounding wind energy market.
A new study published this week shows that fracking chemicals aren't just polluting our waterways, they're taking to the skies, too.
Aggressive climate mitigation is absolutely worth the costs, but economic models are not a good guide to how difficult it might be.