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When climate disaster strikes, just hit the reset button
Video games like the eerie "Mountain" can help explain climate change. But can they make us act before it's game over for real?
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Soy vey! Monsanto just lost its GM permit in the Yucatán
A judge in Mexico has ruled that genetically modified soy presents a danger to bees -- and also to the honey industry.
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Fracking wells at the Pittsburgh airport? Sure — what could go wrong?
Real potential for crisis lies in endangering one of the state’s greatest monuments, which can be found opposite the airport TGI Friday's.
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Pennsylvania seed-library caper grows loopier
The law used to target a seed library might have a loophole, researchers say -- and there's a lot more we could be doing to promote small-scale seed producers.
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Will climate change ruin Aspen’s economy?
Melting snow is just the beginning of the problems.
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No solar, please — we’re Florida
The Sunshine State, like many of its Southern neighbors, has a long record of putting up barriers to the solar business models that work in other states.
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This architect builds with beer crates and recycled fabric, but don’t call him green
“I have no interest in ‘Green,’ ‘Eco,’ and ‘Environmentally Friendly,’" says Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Shigeru Ban. "I just hate wasting things.”
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Bottled water comes from the most drought-ridden places in the country
Popular brands like Aquafina and Dasani source from catastrophically dry parts of the West.
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Teaching a humongous foundation to listen to small farmers
Sam Dryden led the Gates Foundation's farm program for five years, guided less by his background in Big Ag than his upbringing on a hardscrabble Appalachian farm.
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![The results of a tailing pond breach at Imperial Metals Corp's gold and copper mine at Mount Polley in central British Columbia are pictured August 4, 2014]()
![The results of a tailing pond breach at Imperial Metals Corp's gold and copper mine at Mount Polley in central British Columbia are pictured August 4, 2014]()
This giant Canadian mine spill doesn’t make us feel good about Alaska’s Pebble Mine
A copper tailings pond discharged more than 10 million cubic meters of waste into nearby water, threatening an important salmon spawning ground.
