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Ikea is putting more than a billion bucks into the climate fight
More than half of the money will go toward wind and solar power, and the rest will help poor countries adapt to climate change.
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Would you like BPA with your chicken noodle soup?
The controversial material is still found in a lot of canned foods. So which brands are safe?
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The fracking industry just got more tech savvy
Fracking companies are getting less "Wild West" and more West Coast Silicon Valley, thanks to new tech tools.
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This Democratic coal baron wants to be the next governor of West Virginia
Jim Justice, owner of the largest privately held coal company east of the Mississippi, certainly won't be joining the so-called "war on coal."
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Big Oil tries to rebrand itself as Big Gas
... and throw Big Coal under the bus.
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Why this deforestation pledge is huge news for the Indonesian rainforest
A multinational pulp and paper giant joins the rest of the corporate world in committing to end the destruction of Indonesia's rainforest.
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In Seattle, the rent is too damn high
Tech booms, bad government, and money-hungry developers: Inside Seattle's insane housing market, and how it got that way.
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What’s behind the mysterious mass slayings of 320,000 chickens?
If this true crime story doesn't make you mad about the U.S. poultry industry, nothing will.
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Could we fight climate change with bitcoin? This guys thinks so
James D'Angelo wants to launch a global, government-free cap-and-trade system using bitcoin.
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Does hydropower make sense in a warming world?
Thanks to climate change, dams are a less reliable source of electricity, but a lot more of them are getting built anyway.