carbon
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California makes big money from its carbon pricing program. Who gets it?
Activists say lower-income communities are missing out on California's carbon cap money.
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A crucial climate mystery is just under our feet
What if we could turn farms into giant greenhouse gas sponges?
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How comics can help us talk about climate change
What can superheroes teach us about bigger issues? Watch and learn.
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Sea urchins can teach us the secret to effective carbon storage
Like other ocean creatures, sea urchins turn carbon dioxide into shells made of calcium carbonate.
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Kettles account for 4 percent of emissions in the U.K.
There is a better way: Bring back the kettle whistle.
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If New York’s carbon emissions were solid, they’d bury the Empire State Building within a day
In this visualization, each blue ball, 33 feet across, represents the metric ton of carbon dioxide gas released by the city every 0.58 seconds.
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Critical List: Fukushima will take decades to decommission; North Sea gas leak
Is Fukushima news ever positive? A new assessment of damage at the plant shows levels of radiation higher than expected, which means decommissioning the plant could take decades. Building cleantech requires certain resources — rare earth metals, water, biomass — that are getting scarce. Mohamed Nasheed, the deposed Maldives president, is doing a media tour […]
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Air play: Could we capture carbon from the atmosphere?
A start-up company thinks sucking carbon from the air (instead of from coal plant smokestacks) could be a feasible way to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
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Your best new argument against tar-sands mining: George W. Bush supports it
There are a lot of good arguments for opposing oil-sands development and the Keystone XL pipeline. But just today two more very excellent ones emerged. One involves science. The other involves George W. Bush.