Whoa, here's a poll to make you think: Almost two-thirds of the world's people say there must be urgent action to tackle global warming, a poll for the BBC World Service showed on Tuesday. Then again, ...

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Global Heat is apparently not the only problematic anthropogenic item hitching a ride pole-ward by wind and water. From the land of the midnight s...

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Have we made a deal with the devil? From NY Times: Environmental degradation is now so severe, with such stark domestic and international rep...

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Only a week left until the YearlyKos Convention. Chicago will never be the same. Here’s some stuff to hash over. From The Christian Sci...

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The latest issue of Scientific American has a pretty informative article on the current state of climate science: why we know the earth is warming, and why we know human activity...

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Somebody needs to call Al Gore. Maybe he can explain this: The 2007 hurricane season may be less severe than forecast due to cooler-than-expected water temperatures in the tropical Atlantic, private forecaster WSI Corp sa...

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Interesting new discovery as reported by the New Scientist: Forget cars fuelled by alcohol and vegetable oil. Before long, you might be able to run your car with nothing...

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Everybody of a certain age has a bald eagle story. I spent six of the first eight years of my life in Buffalo, N.Y. Growing up there, the bald eagle had almost mythic significanc...

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The Senate's been debating an energy bill.  Described by the Washington Post as "fairly modest," it stays away from radical policies, such as a carbon tax or a cap on carbon emissi...

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When I was a kid, there was a low, swampy area near my house.  Home to countless tadpoles and flanked by mud castles built by a small ar...

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This video has been making its way across the interwebs, so I figured I’d post it here and get some feedback. Why? Well, the argument ...

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