The Environmental Nightmare You Know Nothing About
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If the world can be seen in a grain of sand, watch out. As Wisconsinites are learning, there’s money (and misery) in sand -- and if you’ve got the right kind, an oil company may...
(54) Comments | Posted January 23, 2012 | 11:44 AM
Fracking Gets Its Own Occupy Movement
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This is a story about water, the land surrounding it, and the lives it sustains. Clean water should be a right: there is no life without it. New York is what you...
(39) Comments | Posted April 7, 2011 | 1:50 PM
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For years, “not in my backyard” has been the battle cry of residents in Cape Cod who stand opposed to an offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound. The giant turbines will forever mar the beauty of the landscape, they say.
Energy is ugly. Some...
(18) Comments | Posted July 19, 2010 | 2:24 PM
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If you live on the Gulf Coast, welcome to the real world of oil -- and just know that you’re not alone. In the Niger Delta and the Ecuadorian Amazon, among other places, your emerging hell has been the living hell of local populations for...
(36) Comments | Posted December 8, 2009 | 4:42 PM
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At no time since its 1967 West Bank occupation have Israel’s seizures of Palestinian land and water resources seemed as shocking as the ones attending its construction of “the wall,” begun in 2002. Vast, complex, and shifting in form, the wall appears...
(18) Comments | Posted May 21, 2012 | 11:53 AM