Inside the oil spill that followed Trudeau to China.
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Wildfires are a climate change wake-up call.
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Why flooding in Nigeria is an increasingly serious problem.
Earlier this year heavy rains and thunderstorms caused havoc in Lagos, Nigeria’s economic nerve centre and one of Africa’s most populous cities. Residents woke...
Fracking not viable in UK’s “deformed” rocks.
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California scientists push to create massive climate-research program.
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Drought in California has been exacerbated by climate change and is projected to get worse.
California has a history of going it alone...
Beer is the greenest beverage.
Henry David Thoreau once said that a glass of beer would “naturalize a man at once — which would make him see green, and, if he...
Court lets Exxon off hook for pipeline spill in Arkansas neighborhood.
A federal appeals court has let ExxonMobil largely off the hook for a 2013 pipeline spill that deluged a neighborhood in Mayflower, Arkansas, with...
Climate lessons from California.
Op-Ed ContributorBy NOAH S. DIFFENBAUGHAugust 17, 2017Stanford, Calif. — California faces serious risks from climate change. Some are already being felt, like the severe heat this summer...
Trump signs order rolling back environmental rules on infrastructure.
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Australia emits mercury at double the global average.
A report released this week by advocacy group Environmental Justice Australia presents a confronting analysis of toxic emissions from Australia’s coal-fired power plants.
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