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- “I don’t use the A/C. I have fans. I pull the hair dryer out of the socket. I’m going to switch to energy-efficient light bulbs,” said Dirige, a San Diego-area resident and president of Kalusugan Community Services, a nonprofit health and wellness...
- A San Mateo County judge ordered Pacific Gas and Electric Co. on Friday to shut down a major natural-gas pipeline running through San Carlos, after city officials obtained a company e-mail that raised doubts about the line's integrity and asked...
- Scientist and explorer Sylvia Earle warns that the oceans are "not too big to fail." But she also says that just maybe, we're growing wise enough to save them.
- In an unusually public scolding, Japan’s nuclear watchdog agency criticized the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Friday for making mistakes that allowed radioactive water to leak into the Pacific Ocean, and ordered it to fix the...
- The early days of Taina Uitto's life without plastic weren't easy. Now, three years in to her self-imposed year without plastic, there is no going back.
- Later this month a New Hampshire water treatment plant will switch on in Plaistow to clean ground water at a notorious former oil dump. The total bill for the cleanup of what’s now known as the Beede Superfund site could reach nearly $70 million...
- Earlier this week, U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn) declared that the best news out of the government shutdown was the hobbling of the Environmental Protection Agency. Spoken like someone who’s obviously not too worried about poisons in her water...
- Caitlin O'Dell came to Flatwoods to urge mine safety board members to require all of the state's underground coal operations to install systems that would shut off mining equipment when it gets too close to workers. She believes such a system would...
- California’s worst episode of whooping cough, or pertussis, in 2010, likely spread among unvaccinated children to infect 9,210 youngsters.
- Last weekend, the world’s largest boiling-water nuclear reactor, Sweden’s Oskarshamn plant, was paralyzed after a bloom of moon jellyfish clogged plant’s cooling systems, forcing it to shut down. According to the New York Times,...
- BEIJING (Reuters) - China will replace four coal-burning heating plants in the capital Beijing with natural gas fired ones by the end of next year as it steps up efforts to clean up pollution, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.
- Kip Evans/Mission Blue Climate Desk has launched a new science podcast, Inquiring Minds, cohosted by contributing writer Chris Mooney and neuroscientist and musician Indre Viskontas. To subscribe via iTunes, click here. You can also follow the show...
- A number of countries continued to reject a stand-alone European system, increasing pressure on the bloc to scale back or repeal one of its flagship environmental laws.
- Have you been following Nathanael Johnson’s GMO exploration on Grist? Do you find his research compelling but feel he could use even more pizzaz and hats? Have we got the video for you: Have a good weekend, y’all. h/t Dominic Holden...
- NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Authorities issued mandatory evacuation orders for low-lying areas south of New Orleans on Friday as a weakened Tropical Storm Karen closed in on the Louisiana coast after disrupting U.S. energy output in the Gulf of Mexico...
- A look at the arguments for and against dumping university investments in companies hawking fossil fuels.
- carlfbaggeAn abandoned grain processor that dates back to Soviet era. When the USSR collapsed, the communal farming systems that helped feed the union’s citizens collapsed with it. Farmers abandoned 1 million acres of farmland and headed into...
- Urban agriculture abounds in Los Angeles county but few people could see the big picture of what was actually happening around them. So university students set out to create a baseline of data in the country's most populous county to help urban...
- Aaron KamphuisHe caught a walleye. If you are a warm-water-loving fish looking for a Great Lake in which to swim, Lake Superior is traditionally not your best option. It’s the northernmost of the five lakes, stretching far into Ontario, and it...
- One of the results of the government shutdown: no weddings at national monuments. Another result: Since the national parks are closed, Smokey Bear is just sitting around twiddling his thumbs. And last night, these two great tastes tasted great...
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