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U.N. climate chief calls for fossil-fuel divestment
Just as importantly, Christiana Figueres says big institutional investors should triple the money they're putting into clean energy.
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Pebble Mine near Alaska’s Bristol Bay could be environmentally devastating, EPA says
A huge proposed gold and copper mine would pose major risks to the area's wildlife, fishing industry, and Native cultures, a new report finds.
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Scientists are studying bees by turning them into cyborgs
They're going to attach tiny little sensors (less than 0.1 inches wide) to the bees, let them fly around, and track how they move.
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Why exploding trains are the new Keystone XL
With pipeline projects stalling, more crude is riding the rails. Also, spilling. And blowing up. That's making the Oil Express a target for protest.
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Ask Umbra: Why must we “store” renewable energy? Can’t we just use it?
A reader wonders why it’s so hard to work wind and solar power into the grid. Umbra gets a real charge out of the question.
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Leaked Pacific trade treaty draft suggests the planet will pay
The Trans-Pacific Partnership draft puts no teeth behind environmental protections, and could let other countries undermine those in the U.S.
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Sustainable butcher shop responds to PETA attack in classiest way possible
Yo PETA! Pick on someone your own size. Not a local butcher shop that uses free-range, uncaged, hormone-free animals.
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North Dakota’s top oil regulator is also its top oil promoter
State Democrats see a conflict of interest there. They want the pom-poms to change hands.
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Native sun: In the Deep South, a solar farm rises on a former cotton plantation
The entrepreneur bills the project as the largest solar farm in the country owned by an African American, and it's in North Carolina of all places.
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Fracking chemicals may make oil extra explosive
Recent train explosions have involved crude from the Bakken formation in North Dakota, perhaps because flammable fracking fluids contaminated the oil.