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New York's Fire Island lost more than half of its shoreline sand and sand dunes to the mega-hurricane, leaving the tourist mecca vulnerable to further storm surges.
At a big coal summit being held near U.N. climate negotiations, the industry argues that its fancy-pants new plants are clean. Scientists call bullshit.
Green may actually be the result of the recessive gene.
Last fall, New Brunswick's protests against gas drilling caught the world's attention by burning some vehicles. But their story has more to tell us about how this movement is changing.
It's hard for companies to stake their success on radical innovation.
The EPA has lowered the amount of biofuels required to be blended into gasoline. That's a good thing, even though it makes oil companies happy.
When Midwestern states and their industrial friends sued over a new EPA rule, they got just what they wanted: to keep polluting, and poisoning, as long as possible.
Inject rats with DDT, and three generations later their descendants are obese. A new study raises questions about the insecticide's long-term impact on humans.
The old liberal refrain of "I'm moving to Canada!" makes less sense now that our neighbor to the north is just as bad as the U.S. on climate and energy issues.
