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Tom Engelhardt: Terracide and the Terrarists

2013-05-23T10:05:44Z

To destroy our planet with malice aforethought, with only the most immediate profits on the brain, with only your own comfort and wellbeing (and those of your shareholders) in mind: Isn't that the ultimate crime?

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John Seager: Family Planning Helps People Thrive in a Changing World

2013-05-23T08:41:59Z

Those likely to face the most devastating effects of climate change are people -- especially women -- in the poorest parts of the world. People already eking out a living will face serious new challenges to their ability to provide for their families. So how can we best help them?

Read more: Clean Cookstoves, Population, Family Planning, Poverty, Water, Agriculture, Environment, Contraception, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, World News

Dominique Browning: Tornado Tears Through Oklahoma and Our Hearts

2013-05-22T16:58:21Z

Doing something about climate change is not going to help the people whose lives are already upended by tornadoes -- or floods, hurricanes and droughts. But no parent can simply throw up her hands and ignore the trouble we are racing right into.

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Peter A. Georgescu: The Icehouse Is Our Home

2013-05-22T06:46:21Z

It's normal for CO2 to be much higher than it is now and by artificially returning the planet to its normal state we may actually be cutting short our Icehouse and preventing the next descent of glaciers from the poles. But do we want that? Are we ready to say goodbye to winter and our four seasons entirely?

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A Growing Movement On College Campuses

2013-05-22T14:42:59Z

SWARTHMORE, Pa. — Student activists at more than 200 colleges are trying a new tactic in hopes of slowing the pace of climate change: They are a...

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Kyle Ash: Coal Exports, Bad for the Environment -- Duh

2013-05-22T12:40:50Z

Coal exports are good for the environment -- they are actually saying this. In Oregon and Washington State the coal industry has been pushing this line at town hall meetings, government hearings, and lobby visits.

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Elliott Negin: Unreliable Sources 5: How the News Media Help the Kochs & ExxonMobil Spread Climate Disinformation

2013-05-22T09:08:15Z

Given the Heartland Institute's penchant for misrepresenting science, you would think reporters would be curious about who finances its work. You would be wrong.

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Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen: 'Green News Report' - May 21, 2013

2013-05-21T18:42:03Z

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Kassie Siegel: 5 Fatal Flaws in President Obama's New Fracking Regulations

2013-05-21T17:57:55Z

If the Obama Administration wants to provide any real protection for our air, water and climate, Secretary Jewell should withdraw these regulations a second time and go back to the drawing board.

Read more: Public Lands, Fracking, Sally Jewell, Hydrofracking, Bureau of Land Management, Climate Change, Hydraulic Fracturing, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Barack Obama, Green News

David_Goldstein: An Inconvenient Walk: A Grandmother's Invitation

2013-05-21T17:47:54Z

Though Shodo laughingly dismisses any comparisons to Ghandi or King, she believes that most of us understand that we are in trouble. We may not be scientists, but we see and hear the scientists' warnings that our actions are quickly pushing the climate out of balance.

Read more: Climate Change, Shodo Spring, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Gandhi, Keystone XL Pipeline, Green News

Peter Seligmann: A Sustainable Future Relies on US-China Collaboration

2013-05-21T17:34:59Z

The U.S. and China, although at different stages with their respective economic and environmental challenges, are each increasingly vulnerable to resource scarcity, from minerals to water to food to the biodiversity that fuels science, medicine, and innovation.

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Lisa Bennett: One Mad Mama

2013-05-21T16:35:16Z

Can we cut to the chase on climate change? For nearly a decade, I've followed the news, the analysis, the debate -- and the nonsense that more often than not substitutes for it. And, as a mom, I think it is high time we grow up.

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Nathan Currier: Hate the Increases in Storms and Heat? Take Methane Down to 1250 Now!

2013-05-21T15:19:10Z

It will take cool heads to prevail in a heating world, however, and one quick path to disaster could be that, too caught up in the intensity of this struggle, we ignore the necessity of the near-term strategy as well.

Read more: Environment, Climate Science, Bill Mckibben, Science, Green News, Carbon Dioxide, James Hansen, Climate Change, Hillary Clinton, Global Warming, Methane, Green News

Pankaj Jain, Ph.D.: The Environmental Sustainability Of Indian Spirituality

2013-05-21T13:18:24Z

Even after the advent of modernity and globalization, Indians have successfully preserved their vegetarian habits that were laid down by their dharmic traditions several millennia ago.

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Climate Change's Impact On Tornadoes 'A Damn Difficult Thing To Predict'

2013-05-21T12:38:56Z

Climate change chatter ran rampant after an unusually violent string of twisters in 2011, including a Joplin, Mo., storm that killed 158 people. After...

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Kelly Rigg: Top 5 Actions to Make a Difference in the Fight Against Climate Change

2013-05-21T06:46:05Z

If you've ever had the feeling that your lifestyle changes amount to tiny drops in a very large proverbial bucket, I invite you to consider taking one of these 'Top 5 actions' to fight climate change.

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Climate Change-Related Heat Deaths To Spike In New York City, Study Projects

2013-05-21T00:10:16Z

From Climate Central's Andrew Freedman:

An increasing number of New Yorkers are likely to die from heat-related causes as global warming causes mor...

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Emanuel Pastreich: Put the Environment at the Center of the Global Economy: An Argument for the Eco-Currency

2013-05-20T18:08:10Z

We must hardwire the health of the ecosystem directly to the standard measurements of economic health so that the state of the environment is immediately visible in all economic transactions. One possible approach is the introduction of a global "eco-currency."

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GOP Legislator Blames U.N. For Climate Change 'Lie'

2013-05-20T16:12:23Z

A Republican state legislator in Minnesota is blaming the United Nations for spreading a "fraud and lie" regarding climate change.

State Rep. Glen...

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Evaggelos Vallianatos: Storms in the Wine-Dark Sea

2013-05-20T15:39:55Z

Make the entire Mediterranean a protected park. Let the ancient sea, the Greeks' wine-dark sea, recover its beauty and wildlife. The people of this basin and all of Europe, and the world, deserve no less.

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Mary Ellen Harte: Climate Change This Week: SheerWind, Damation, and More!

2013-05-20T15:36:20Z

We're At 400 PPM - Last Time THAT Happened, the Arctic was 14oF Warmer, says a new study, reports Joe Romm at Climate Progress, indicating the planet ...

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Mary Ellen Hannibal: Powers That Be

2013-05-20T15:34:29Z

As I wander through the land of environmental nonprofits, I'm always asking myself: What works? Because on one level, nothing is working. Every year more land and water is converted to human use.

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Mike Sandler: California and the Raiders of the Lost Commons

2013-05-20T15:25:13Z

The first Indiana Jones movie opens with our hero having his prize stolen from him by a rival archeologist. No one remembers that the statue actually belongs to the Peruvian tribespeople. In 2013, Californians are witnessing an allegory with the repeated raiding of the revenues from the carbon price under state law AB32 that should be theirs.

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Jennifer Redner: Giving Girls a Chance at a Real Future With Real Choices

2013-05-20T13:30:26Z

As a key player in shaping global development priorities -- priorities that include education, health care, food security, economic empowerment and ending violence against women and girls -- the United States has an important role in ending early and forced marriage worldwide.

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Sarah Palin: 'Global Warming My Gluteus Maximus'

2013-05-20T12:52:54Z

Global warming isn't happening, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) argued over the weekend, pointing to the fact that it was snowing in Alaska in May....

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