Environment
Major oil-water spill darkens Alberta, Canada
June 13, 2013In the wetlands of northern Alberta, Canada, outside the town of Zama City, everything is stained with the thick, pungent blackness of oil.
Read moreRedwood forest suffers for Game of Thrones-style wedding
June 7, 2013Napster and Facebook co-founder Sean Parker decided to have a $2.5 million Game of Thrones-inspired wedding right in the middle of a California redwood forest, putting the ecosystem there at risk, as well as several threatened...
Read moreAtmosphere’s carbon dioxide breaches 400
May 21, 2013Many climate scientists, such as James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute, believe that any sustained period of time with higher than 350 ppm threatens catastrophic global warming.
Read moreMonsanto protest reaches Central Texas
May 20, 2013Thousands of demonstrations will call out Monsanto for its seed monopoly, genetic modification of organisms, and court-sanctioned silencing of dissent.
Read moreFrom California to Wisconsin, wildfire season has begun
May 17, 2013Wisconsin, on May 14, saw its largest wildfire since 1980. Meanwhile, in California, another fire that began May 15 has blackened 3,800 acres.
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