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After Keystone XL: Why the Paris climate summit could be different

November 25, 2015 By C.J. Atkins

For the first time, leaders from the advanced capitalist countries and those of the emerging economies seem to be on the same page when it comes to the urgency of slowing climate change.

Obama’s Alaska visit highlights climate already changed

September 4, 2015 By Marc Brodine

Each particular battle is but one part of the longer struggle to transform our energy economy, our economy as a whole, how things are produced, packaged, and distributed.

Sensitive corals found at Shell’s Arctic drilling site

August 1, 2012 By Blake Skylar

Oil giant Shell will soon begin exploratory drilling in Arctic waters, including in the sensitive ecosystem of the Chukchi Sea. Environmental activists have criticized the company for putting sea life at risk, and now their argument...

Canada, bowing to oil companies, fires ocean scientists

June 12, 2012 By Blake Skylar

After massive layoffs at Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans, leading ocean scientists - and the environment itself - will suffer the consequences.

Do wind farms really cause global warming?

May 1, 2012 By Dan Margolis

If you get your news from Fox or a handful of other news outlets that are not, to be charitable, best known for their fact checking, you will be relieved to learn that wind farms do...