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Why food prices scaled the peaks — and why it matters
You may not have felt a thing, but when food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011, they sent experts into a tizzy of debate over why it happened and what we can learn.
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China just got serious about global warming. Now we’re really out of excuses.
The world's biggest polluter will set up a carbon market as early as 2016. Here's why that matters.
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Google trend watch: The indoors are the new outdoors
Google brings backpacking indoors with a very sexy and subtle new virtual mapping device!
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The personal (technology) is political, part two
Web technologies are embedded in socioeconomic structures that are designed to exploit workers and consumers to the benefit of capital.
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What do the new climate rules have to do with my kid’s asthma?
The EPA is selling its new power plant regulations as a salve for polluted communities. But the devil is in the details.
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Where does Hillary Clinton stand on fracking?
She's all for it, if it's done "safely." But as secretary of state, she pushed fracking on other countries whether it would be safe or not.
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Nevada wins Tesla’s gigafactory sweepstakes
The Silver State gets a super-hyped electric car battery factory. Tesla gets subsidies totaling $1.25 billion.
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BP convicted of gross negligence in Deepwater Horizon spill, really salty about it
We imagine that the handing down of the Deepwater Horizon decision may have gone a little like this.
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BP lashes out at journalists and “opportunistic” environmentalists
The oil company behind the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill is not winning any friends with this one.
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The personal (technology) is political
If you're stressed out by digital distractions and email overload, the answer is not meditation and mindfulness. It's fixing our power structures.