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Our Planet’s Primal Scream — Is Anyone Listening?
Recent headlines have sounded the alarm on the mounting impacts of climate change. Over the past few months, we have seen everything from the hottest summer on record, to historic droughts and extreme...
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Dam-building boom could be electricity boon, environmental blight
A dam-building boom across the developing world will bring electricity to growing, power-hungry cities across Asia, Africa and Latin America. But it can also put the world’s climate and people at...
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Arctic Ice Melt Seen Doubling Risk of Harsh Winter in EU
The decline in Arctic sea ice has doubled the chance of severe winters in Europe and Asia in the past decade, according to researchers in Japan. Sea-ice melt in the Arctic, Barents and Kara seas since...
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Deepwater Horizon Gunk Settled Far and Wide
More than one-third of the oil that spewed into the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill never made it to the surface. Scientists have been trying to locate the missing 2 million...
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Earth’s Soil Is Getting Too Salty for Crops to Grow
In the upcoming film Interstellar, Earth’s soil has become so degraded that only corn will grow, driving humans to travel through a wormhole in search of a planet with land fertile enough for other...
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10, Including Biologist Sandra Steingraber, Arrested as Human Blockade of...
Ten people were arrested yesterday after blockading the gates of Texas-based Crestwood methane gas storage facility. Seven were arrested at the north gate, blockading a truck, and charged with...
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Why Oil And Gas Giants Are Trying To Buy Three Local Elections In California
Santa Barbara rose to prominence in the environmental movement after a massive 1969 offshore oil spill drew national attention to the issue and changed the industry forever. Since then, the city and...
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Enlist Duo is a combination of the herbicides 2,4-D and glyphosate developed by Dow Chemical Co. It received EPA approval for use in six states in October, and is on track for approval in ten more....
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Communities find little success in resisting fracking infrastructure
Amy Nassif thought petitioning her Pennsylvania school board to vote against drilling near her two children’s school would be enough — but even without the board’s approval, the Pennsylvania...
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Texans Vote To Ban Fracking
On Tuesday, voters in Denton, Texas, banned fracking within the city limits by a large margin of 59 to 41. The first such restriction in energy-giant Texas, Denton has been a hotly contested site for...
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Peak Water: United States Water Use Drops to Lowest Level in 40 Years
The most important trend in the use of water is the slowly unfolding story of peak water in the United States and elsewhere. Data on US water use are compiled every five years by the US Geological...
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Voters In 19 States Just Committed More Than $13 Billion For Conservation
Although media coverage has focused on Republican victories in Tuesday’s election, voters across the country overwhelmingly supported measures to advance progressive priorities, including initiatives...
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Oil-Sands Producers Report Waterfowl Deaths in Tailings Ponds
Almost 100 aquatic birds died this week in oil-sands tailings ponds as fog during annual migrations increased the numbers of waterfowl near bitumen processing. Sixty birds died at Canadian Natural...
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Senate GOP steeling for battle against EPA
Senate Republicans are gearing up for a war against the Obama administration’s environmental rules, identifying them as a top target when they take control in January. The GOP sees the midterm...
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How human existence doesn’t have to cost the Earth
Environmental problems can seem overwhelming if met head on, so sometimes the greatest benefit just comes from a change in attitude. Three new books, with wildly different subject matter, illustrate...
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Facing Rising Sea Levels, Boston Ponders Canals
With the specter of rising sea levels threatening many metropolises worldwide, cities are starting to rethink what their future might look like. And in Boston, that future might look a little bit like...
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Fred Grimm: Florida’s legal fees flow like a mighty river
After 24 years of unending, uncompromising water wars, Florida versus Georgia, one lawsuit after another, the flow has built to a mighty torrent. Of legal fees, that is. Last week, the U.S. Supreme...
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Upstate New Yorkers fear gas caves could blow wine, tourism industries
In Watkins Glenn — an idyllic part of upstate New York best known for its Finger Lakes, fall foliage and wine — activists worry it could soon be known for something less appealing: industrial...
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Ocean Dead Zones Are Getting Worse Globally Due to Climate Change
Nearly all ocean dead zones will increase by the end of the century because of climate change, according to a new Smithsonian-led study. But the work also recommends how to limit risks to coastal...
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Fracking To Be Allowed In Parts Of George Washington National Forest
Environmentalists and energy boosters alike welcomed a federal compromise announced Tuesday that will allow fracking in the largest national forest in the eastern United States, but make most of its...
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