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Shipping industry: Climate change? What’s the big rush!
A U.N. maritime agency postponed a climate plan until 2023.
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Did your smart thermostat contribute to last week’s big cyberattack?
Could our energy-saving gadgets go rogue and help take out the internet?
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Solar up, coal down: U.S. shakes up energy supply
By 2017, solar power capacity will nearly triple from 2014 levels.
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Here’s why it’s so important to buy recycled products
Advice columnist Umbra Fisk cycles through the reasons.
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Garbage is a dirty business. L.A. is trying to clean it up.
Los Angeles tries to make the garbage industry better for workers and better for the environment.
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Why the heck are there pig farms in the path of hurricanes?
Hurricane Matthew is the third hurricane in two decades to wash animal feces all over North Carolina.
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Should I keep my laptop plugged in while I use it?
A reader wants to know how best to preserve his computer's battery. Advice columnist Umbra Fisk charges in with answers.
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Relying on future tech to suck up carbon is rolling the dice with the planet
Scientists are trying to develop negative-emissions technologies. Will they work?
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Is synthetic yarn for the birds?
A knitter wonders if it's OK to put acrylic yarn scraps outside for birds to make nests with. Umbra Fisk swoops in with an answer.
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Ken Bone: “If I was Energy King …”
We talked to the red-sweatered star of the second presidential debate about climate change and his job as a coal plant operator.
