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Top 13 Dumb Things Media Said About Climate Change in 2013
By Denise Robbins The evidence for climate change only got stronger this year, with a major climate report finding 95 percent confidence in manmade global warming and the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere hitting a record 400 parts per million. Climate doubters, in turn, became increasingly desperate, citing everything from a verified scam artist to the “Ouija…
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New Year’s Resolution: Refuse Disposable Plastics
The Plastic Pollution Coalition launched a campaign this month aimed at reducing single use plastic in 2014. Through Resolve to Refuse, the Plastic Pollution Coalition is urging people to sign a pledge to follow the “Four Rs” of sustainable living—refuse, reduce, reuse and recycle—in the New Year. Disposable plastic items have become so commonplace that they are…
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China Has 8 Million Acres of Land Too Polluted to Grow Food
For as much news as China’s smog situation makes, another large problem has lagged in attention—the pollution of 8 million acres of farmland across the country. The land is far too polluted with heavy metals and chemicals that it can’t be used to grow food, Wang Shiyuan, deputy minister of China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection said Monday. The Ministry found…
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Fiery Oil Train Crash in Raging Shale Oil Boom State of North Dakota
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Fiery Oil Train Crash in Raging Shale Oil Boom State of North Dakota