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Winning the Conservation War: How to Manage the World We're Stuck With
Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011
A pristine planet is never coming back, but that doesn't mean it can't become O.K.
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Why 2012 Will Be a Bad Year for Renewable Energy
Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011
Expiration of federal subsidies could cripple a growing industry
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5 Things You Didn't Know about Our Energy Future
Tuesday, Dec. 06, 2011
It's not easy to see what's around the energy bend, but here are hard — if unexpected — realities
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Another Year, Another U.N. Climate-Change Summit: Expect Big Talk in Durban, and Few Results
Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011
The upcoming U.N. gathering in Durban will likely be a bust. Here's what we should do instead
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How Fuel-Efficient Cars Save Money
Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011
Climate visionary Amory Lovins has an energy blueprint for America — and it's a good one
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Does the U.S. Spend Too Much on Green Energy — or Not Enough?
Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011
Renewed controversy over the failed solar company Solyndra and Obama's billions in government subsidies for green tech misses the point: we need need to spend trillions more on renewable energy, and risks come with the territory
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The Kyoto Accords — and Hope — Are Expiring
Tuesday, Nov. 08, 2011
In hard economic times, a global climate deal is less likely than ever
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The Worst Kind of Poverty: Energy Poverty
Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011
Energy poverty is only a piece of larger economic poverty, but it's one of the best ways out of it. The very least we can do is wake up to the fact that everyone deserves a light
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Who's Bankrolling the Climate-Change Deniers?
Tuesday, Oct. 04, 2011
One of America's major political parties has, in effect, adopted climate-change denial as policy. How did this happen?
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Farewell to the Arctic as We Know It: The Rush to Understand the Intensifying Summer Melt
Tuesday, Sep. 27, 2011
The physical changes from global warming are visible in the Arctic almost in real time — and they are a warning for those of us who live in more comfortable latitudes
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Al Gore and the Alternate Realities of Climate Change
Tuesday, Sep. 20, 2011
Al Gore asks the world to wake up before it's too late, but money and politics could spell doom
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Welcome to ARPA-E, The U.S. Government's Department of Big Dreams
Tuesday, Sep. 13, 2011
A little-known government agency is figuring out how to make America green — and rich
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Is Obama Bad for the Environment?
Tuesday, Sep. 06, 2011
Greens are mad at the President after he abandoned a promise to tighten air pollution regulations. But do environmentalists have anywhere else to go?
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Can FoodCorps Get America to Eat Healthfully?
Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011
FoodCorps, a new national service organization and AmeriCorps partner, aims to fight obesity and diet-related disease through promoting school gardens and farm-to-school programs
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After Contagion: The Real-Life Virus Hunters Go Digital
Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011
By mining the Internet's massive volume of data, digital epidemiologists hope to identify disease outbreaks in real time — and eliminate deadly epidemics before they start
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Why the Drought Could Get a Whole Lot Worse
Tuesday, Aug. 09, 2011
The South has suffered crippling droughts in the past, from the long dry stretch in 2007 to the multiyear Texas drought of the 1950s. But this time could be different — and worse
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The GOP vs. the EPA: Death by a Thousand Cuts
Tuesday, Aug. 02, 2011
Hidden inside the debt negotiations, Republicans saw an opportunity to cut funding to the country's environmental agencies. It isn't the first time
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Blue Water, Green Fleet: The Navy Gets Eco-Friendly
Tuesday, Jul. 19, 2011
Military leadership on energy issues could pull the rest of the U.S. along
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Frankenfish: Is GM Salmon a Vital Part of Our Future?
Tuesday, Jul. 12, 2011
Genetically modified fish isn't without its risks — but neither is a crowded and hungry future
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The Mighty Shark, Flirting with Extinction
Wednesday, Jul. 06, 2011
Our irrational fear of sharks — and growing appetite for them — continues to threaten their survival
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Will Lack of Funding Dim the Solar Industry?
Tuesday, Jun. 28, 2011
Times have never been better for the large-scale solar industry, but they could get very bad very fast
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A Scary Report Card on the World's Oceans
Tuesday, Jun. 21, 2011
A group of marine researchers look at the state of ocean science — and it's not pretty
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Are Invasive Species a Thing of the Past?
Tuesday, Jun. 14, 2011
A growing number of conservation biologists are beginning to question whether we're fighting a losing battle by trying to get rid of invasive species
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Hydrofracking: Assessing the Real Risks
Tuesday, Jun. 07, 2011
How we perceive the risk that comes from a potential environmental or health threat — and what we think should be done about it — often has far more to with our political and cultural predispositions and biases than science
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Making Girl Scout Cookies Better for the Planet
Tuesday, May. 31, 2011
Scouts Madison Vorva and Rhiannon Tomtishen are fighting to get the Girl Scouts to stop using non-sustainable palm oil in their cookies, and they're actually making progress
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