Trump officials accused of usi...

Nov 30, 2018 by

Interior secretary Ryan Zinke says he hopes new laws will end environmental reviews and allow ‘thinning’ of forests

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We broke down what climate cha...

Nov 30, 2018 by

Yeah, we read each chapter of the report so you don’t have to.

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This City’s Overdose Deaths Ha...

Nov 29, 2018 by

Dayton, Ohio, had one of the highest overdose death rates in the nation in 2017. The city made many changes, and fatal overdoses are down more than 50 percent from last year.

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Video Games Consume More Elect...

Nov 29, 2018 by

Researchers set up a special lab to measure gaming’s massive carbon footprint.

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COP24: Nationalism and the cha...

Nov 29, 2018 by

At a world gathering on climate change this weekend, nations will face a key political test: whether they can transcend the narrowness of nationalism in favor of cooperation. All eyes will be on the US and China.

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Chemicals on our food: When ‘s...

Nov 28, 2018 by

Scientific scrutiny of pesticide residue in food grows – regulatory protections are being questioned.

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Their water became undrinkable...

Nov 28, 2018 by

In Martin County, Kentucky, residents are paying steep prices for water that sometimes comes out of the tap brown and foul-smelling—that is, when it comes out at all.

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The Tax-Code Shift That’s Chan...

Nov 27, 2018 by

Nonprofit groups that used to focus their energies on litigation and education are structuring themselves to be political players.

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How to provide a backyard habi...

Nov 27, 2018 by

We live in an ecosystem where plants and animals depend upon one another for survival.

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NASA just landed InSight, a ro...

Nov 26, 2018 by

NASA landed on Mars for the first time since 2012.

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Ecological Design Book Extract

Nov 26, 2018 by

In many ways, the environmental crisis is a design crisis. It is a consequence of how things are made, buildings are constructed, and landscapes are used.

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Blue Wave, Red Town

Nov 26, 2018 by

How my middle school guidance counselor became the first Democratic state representative elected in Bedford, New Hampshire, since 1934.

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Knowledge, Ignorance and Clima...

Nov 26, 2018 by

Philosophers have been talking about skepticism for a long time. Some of those insights can shed light on our public discourse regarding climate change.

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Thoreau on Nature as Prayer

Nov 25, 2018 by

Walt Whitman saw trees — “so innocent and harmless, yet so savage” — as a wellspring of wisdom on being rather than seeming.

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In a massive new report, feder...

Nov 24, 2018 by

In a massive new report, federal scientists contradict President Trump and assert that climate change is an intensifying danger to the United States. Too bad it came out on a holiday.

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Giving Thanks in Time of Fire

Nov 24, 2018 by

Settling into my airplane seat on the next leg of a long business trip, I heard a man say to his seat companion behind me, “I am so happy we live here.

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A Poem from Trudy

Nov 24, 2018 by

This poem, Thanks, from W. S. Merwin, reminds me of the
last lines of Leonard Cohen’s song, Hallelujah

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NYC plans to cut its biggest s...

Nov 23, 2018 by

New York City, already a relatively sustainable town, could reach new green heights if a certain city lawmaker has his way.

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Tribes risk exploitation when ...

Nov 23, 2018 by

The trash and toxic runoff are bad enough. They are killing off the tribe’s local fish population and medicinal plants.

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Killing Plants Is the Fastest ...

Nov 21, 2018 by

A recently published study has found that “[c]limate change and human activity are dooming species at an unprecedented rate.”

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Steven Pinker Thinks the Futur...

Nov 20, 2018 by

The Harvard psychologist says he is no starry-eyed optimist. It’s just that the data don’t lie.

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Trump’s Military Deployment to...

Nov 19, 2018 by

Donald Trump’s decision to send thousands of troops to the US-Mexican border to intercept migrants who intend to apply for asylum is not just a bald-faced political stunt — it is also illegal.

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A Letter on Loyalty, Agency, U...

Nov 19, 2018 by

This is not intended to persuade or to convince, it is my voice and my experience and my truth.

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Trump’s Defense Spending...

Nov 19, 2018 by

Using a time-honored trick, a bipartisan congressional panel argues we should boost the president’s record defense bill even more

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Climate change on track to mak...

Nov 19, 2018 by

Insurance giant IAG has warned a failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions could result in a world that is “pretty much uninsurable”, with poorer communities likely to bear the brunt of the effects.

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Agenda 21? The Plan To Depopul...

Nov 19, 2018 by

The United Nations for some people conjure up images of a benevolent organization intended for the preservation of human life wherever conflict occurs, and of encouraging international cooperation and peace.

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How Plato Foresaw Facebook’s F...

Nov 18, 2018 by

Technology promises to make easy things that, by their intrinsic nature, have to be hard.

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The Dangerous Naïveté of Trump...

Nov 17, 2018 by

The United States and China may be on a collision course yet their presidents each underestimate the pain the other could inflict.

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Spain Is Switching to 100 Perc...

Nov 16, 2018 by

“A wake-up call to the rest of the world.”

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Migration roils global politic...

Nov 16, 2018 by

Never before have so many people – 70 million – been forcibly displaced from their homes. Millions more have chosen to leave in search of a better life. And traditional politics have been thrown into disarray.

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