News
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Critical List: Emperor penguin population double previous estimates; a new fracking working group
A team using very high resolution satellite pictures counted twice as many emperor penguins in Antarctica than any previous study had. President Obama formed a new working group in Washington to coordinate federal oversight of fracking. Those earthquakes in Oklahoma and Arkansas could be caused not just by fracking wastewater disposal but by fracking itself.
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Critical List: Meat consumption must drop 50 percent; Los Angeles the Energy Star of cities
We going to have to eat half as much meat as we do now in order to curb climate change. After Deepwater Horizon, throughout the Gulf “things are just a little bit out of kilter,” says the head of NOAA’s restoration team. With 659 certified Energy Star buildings, Los Angeles has the most of any […]
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Critical List: Nebraska legislature kickstarts Keystone XL planning; NASA’s climate skeptics
The Nebraska legislature passed a bill that’ll kickstart planning for the rerouted Keystone XL pipeline. Turns out a bunch of former NASA employees are also climate skeptics. Canada’s unlikely to meet its 2020 goal for carbon emissions cuts.
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Critical List: Earthquake off the coast of Indonesia; Tennessee anti-climate teaching bill now a law
A look at the news of the day.
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Critical List: Mexico City’s pollution-busting vertical gardens; tiny kitchens
A look at the news of the day.
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Critical List: It’s been really, really warm; polar bears have a weird disease
A look at the news of the day.
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Critical List: The return of the loan-guarantee program; Texas least prepared for climate change
The Energy Department is reviving its loan program. (AAAH! SOLYNDRA! AAAAAAAH!…say Republicans. We’re pretty sure this will all work out fine.) Environmental groups want final rules governing coal ash and are suing the EPA to get them. Texas: not very prepared for climate change. California: doing better than everyone else, at least. In China, drought […]
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Critical List: A feathered cousin of T. rex; a solar panel thinner than spider silk
The Yutyrannus, a newly discovered dinosaur, was huge, related to Tyrannosaurus rex, and covered in feathers. Thousands of dead dolphins have been washing up on Peruvian beaches. Austrian and Japanese scientists teamed up to make a solar panel that’s thinner than a thread of spider silk. Drought in England means that anyone caught using a […]
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Critical List: Interior to expedite oil and gas permit review; pandas trying to mate
A round-up of the news of the day.