Environment

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Before we enter the age of renewable energy, get ready for the very bumpy era of extreme energy
  • Senate finally taking up cap-and-trade bill

    After a long delay, legislation to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions is announced; passing it might not be easy
  • How to lie about climate change

    More carbon dioxide will help the planet bloom! Are the crazies getting crazier, or just more desperate?
  • Let a thousand eco-documentaries bloom!

    A guide to help you choose between "Earth" and "Earth Days," and "War, Inc." and "Food, Inc."
  • The family who just said no

    "No Impact" couple Colin Beavan and Michelle Conlin on the new movie capturing their year without A/C, TV or T.P.
  • Condoms against climate change

    A new study argues family planning is the cheapest way to stop global warming. Thomas Malthus agrees
  • Will Ecuador's Indians bankrupt Chevron?

    Documentarian Joe Berlinger on the amazing Amazon pollution case in "Crude" -- and its link to the West Memphis 3
  • Why continue therapy?

    It could take me years to work through all my issues. Maybe I should spend my money on books and other things
  • Does the Prius have an Achilles heel?

    Hybrid technology depends on rare minerals currently produced mostly in China. The Saudi oil sheiks must be pleased
  • Eco-pirates of the Antarctic

    This thrilling sea adventure follows a ragtag activist group's highly illegal campaign against Japanese whalers
  • How to kill a coal plant

    As a recent British protest shows, nonviolent civil disobedience may be our best hope to counteract global warming
  • Should we forgive Michael Vick?

    Science says we'll be healthier if we do, but some argue there's room in a healthy life for a good grudge
  • When we thought we could save the Earth

    Robert Stone's documentary feels like a Pynchon-style alternate history of the U.S. -- except it really happened
  • What's really in your shampoo

    Sure, a couple ingredients clean your hair. But the rest are a veritable toxic dump on your head
  • Neighborhood watch on planet Earth

    We need to keep going to space to know what's happening down here
  • Dolphins are dying to amuse us

    SeaWorld and aquariums, implicated in the shocking new documentary about dolphin slaughter, "The Cove," strike back
  • Sushi to die for

    Will bluefin tuna survive our insatiable appetite for status and taste?
  • Goodnight, moon travel

    It's time to save planet Earth. And our inspiration, once again, comes from JFK
  • Sarah Palin, energy expert

    In a new op-ed, the outgoing governor of Alaska blasts President Obama's energy plan
  • Will America's parks be his oyster?

    Obama says politics will no longer cloud science. But his choice for national parks director is facing that charge
  • The FRAC Act under attack

    Are Democrats going wobbly as energy companies resist curbs on the natural gas drilling practice known as fracking?
  • Why America is flunking science

    Don't just blame poor education for our nation's scientific illiteracy -- but our politics and pop culture
  • I'm tired of just being a man

    How I learned about my own animality (and "humanzees," Stalin and scary creationists) by living with a chimp
  • Overheated by clean energy

    As the debate over the Waxman-Markey climate bill rages on, Harvard's top environmental economist sheds some light
  • Sushi cows of the sea

    Sustainably farmed bluefin tuna? Come on -- what's the catch?
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