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This indie thriller highlights some of the most detestable clichés of the save-the-trees mentality. Our roundtable of writers weigh in.
Here's why farms are getting smaller, not larger, in developing countries.
Geoscientist Raymond Pierrehumbert argues that carbon dioxide is always worse than shorter-lived pollutants like methane.
China's push to wean itself from coal has triggered a rush to develop alternative power sources. Here's a look at its natural gas boom.
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.
A newly proposed "pied-à-terre tax" in New York City would apply to luxury homes owned by people who don’t actually live in the city.
The GOP position on climate change is unstable, both intellectually and politically, and it's getting ever more awkward for candidates to stick to it.
The EPA has put the state on probation until it figures out a way to stop dairy farms from polluting streams, rivers, and Lake Champlain -- the water supply for a third of Vermont's population.
