Environment

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  • Pick your poison: Wild salmon or global warming

    Every dam removed in favor of a fish run subtracts more renewable energy from the grid
  • Life is out of whack

    It may drive ecologists crazy to talk about a balance in nature. But it's more necessary than ever
  • Plundering the oceans

    Overfishing continues at a shocking rate, as countries break one environmental promise after another
  • Horses to the slaughter

    U.S. horses are meeting gruesome ends abroad, while the debate rages on: Are horses 1,500 pounds of food or friend?
  • One brief shining moment for clean energy

    Passage of the first climate bill in the House is a big first step to cut global warming. But it's not enough
  • Climate bill passes House

    Republicans employed some unusual delaying tactics, but Democrats scored a narrow victory anyway
  • There's no place like home!

    "Real Estate Intervention" brings tough love to homeowners while "The Lazy Environmentalist" makes going green easy
  • Land of the lost global warming skeptics

    Does Will Ferrell have any idea that there is a subversive climate change subplot in his movie?
  • Why we can't eat just one

    We do it for the buzz. Like drug addicts. How do we stop the constant craving?
  • Auto safety for dummies

    Critics who whine Obama is outlawing big cars for dangerous compacts are riding shotgun with empty barrels.
  • New oil industry scheme: Girls, girls, girls!

    Worried about upcoming energy legislation, the flacks come up with a fool-proof plan. Lipstick!
  • Climate change: The poor get poorer

    Hotter temperatures equal lower economic growth. Except not in rich countries.
  • Don't flush that fertilizer!

    Normal ecosystems use and reuse critical nutrients like phosphorus. But humans aren't normal
  • The seldom-seen devastation of climate change

    A NASA climatologist explains why global warming is more than starving polar bears, and skeptics are simplistic.
  • Deadly heat

    A controversial report from Kofi Annan's group says global warming is killing hundreds of thousands a year.
  • Electric cars are coming!

    We're sorry to be buzz kills. But we've heard this one before. Like in 1990. And 1910. Do the automakers have the juice this time?
  • Obama puts the fuel economy pedal to the metal

    Bush never stopped fighting California's proposed rules for regulating greenhouse gas emissions. Fut for the new administration, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
  • Pesticides indicted in bee deaths

    Agriculture officials have renewed their scrutiny of the world's best-selling pest-killer as they try to solve the mysterious collapse of the nation's hives.
  • The geek in charge at the Department of Energy

    Speaking at MIT, Steven Chu finds an audience that understands him a little better than the jokers on Capitol Hill.
  • Did the White House just declare climate change war on itself?

    A mysterious memo supposedly prepared by the Office of Management and Budget savagely attacks the EPA's finding that greenhouse gases are a pollutant.
  • Obama the polar bear killer

    Where's the outrage, hollers Bush's press secretary. Why isn't the new president castigated for failing to use the Endangered Species Act to stop climate change?
  • A climate change House of fools

    A prominent Democrat vows to oppose any attempt to restrict greenhouse gas emissions, while declaring that biofuel critics are "in bed with big oil."
  • Passing energy legislation is a lot like cat herding

    Democrats are split over whether to support a climate change bill.
  • Obama and biofuels: Love me, love me not

    Mixed signals emerge from the White House on the pros and cons of corn-based ethanol.
  • Can we afford our technological salvation?

    Bad news for techno-optimists: New research suggests that advanced manufacturing technologies are ever-more energy intensive.
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