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South Portland has imposed a six-month moratorium on shipping tar-sands oil through its port, and is now looking at a permanent ban.
Some developing countries have oversized carbon footprints because they manufacture so much of our junk, and their factories are sending smog back our way.
If we don't mend our ways, wild areas nearly as big as Brazil will turn into farmland by 2050. A new U.N. report lays out a plan for avoiding that.
A new report looks at how much power cities have over climate change adaptation and CO2 emissions.
A former Mississippi mayor takes the helm of an office that has long been at odds with environmental justice leaders. She doesn't have much green cred, but that may be just as well.
An uncommonly sharp kink in the jet stream is partly responsible for plunging more than half of the United States into the freeze.
Science may finally be approaching an answer.
A trio of fiery train crashes prompted the federal government to warn that oil fracked from the Bakken shale formation is especially dangerous.
When the IPCC climate report came out last year, Canada's environment minister had planned to say something mildly sensible, then thought better of it.
