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Yosemite’s Massive Rim Fire Fueled by Climate Change 27 Aug 2013 | 08:22 pm
Known as the Rim Fire, to date it has burned almost 160,000 acres with about 22,000 of those acres in Yosemite. Not surprisingly, given its immense size ...
Viral Video: Naming Hurricanes After Politicians Who Deny Climate Change 27 Aug 2013 | 06:44 pm
A new campaign was kicked off yesterday, aimed at increasing awareness of climate change and its link to extreme weather. 350 Action released a video ...
Solar Energy Capacity Grows as Reliability and Efficiency of PV Panels Increase 27 Aug 2013 | 06:04 pm
Many factors come into play in reducing the overall costs for solar energy projects and creating stronger market certainty. The role that innovation and research plays ...
250 Groups Call on EPA to Ban Endocrine-Disrupting Atrazine 27 Aug 2013 | 01:59 am
A diverse coalition of more than 250 conservation, public-health and sustainable farming groups sent a letter today asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to ban atrazine ...
Kingpin Behind Bars for Poaching Chimps in Africa 27 Aug 2013 | 12:31 am
A man who has admitted trafficking more than 500 endangered chimpanzees out of the West African country Republic of Guinea has been captured and sentenced to the maximum possible jail term ...
Rachel Maddow Exposes Climate Deniers and Discusses Keystone XL Delay 26 Aug 2013 | 11:41 pm
On Friday, MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show devoted a portion of the program to touch on climate change deniers and the Keystone XL pipeline opposition ...
Groups Take on Meatpacking Industry to Defend Country of Origin Labeling 26 Aug 2013 | 08:44 pm
Four groups representing farmers, ranchers, rural communities and consumers filed court papers on Friday, to defend mandatory Country of Origin Labeling from a spurious lawsuit filed by the meatpackin...
World Petroleum Use Sets Record High, Asia Remains Largest Consumer 26 Aug 2013 | 06:58 pm
The world's consumption of gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, heating oil and other petroleum products reached a record high of 88.9 million barrels per day ...
How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future 24 Aug 2013 | 01:41 am
With per-well production decline rates of between 81 and 90 percent in the first 24 months, wells must be constantly replaced by new ones just to keep production flat. The higher production gets, the ...
Radioactive Water Tank Leak at Fukushima Worst Since 2011 Disaster 24 Aug 2013 | 01:11 am
The seemingly endless torrent of scandals rushing from the damaged nuclear reactors at Fukushima continues with the news that a serious incident is underway at the stricken plant ...
