Obama Is Full of Hot Air on Cl...

May 18, 2013 by

You can’t hit 400 ppm CO2 and still think “all of the above” is a rationale energy strategy.

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6 Ways Scientific Studies Can ...

May 12, 2013 by

Scientific studies with phony findings are not as uncommon as they should be.

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Grow your own glow-in-the-dark...

May 8, 2013 by

One day in the future, instead of creating machines to work for us..

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Climate-denying GOP Rep

May 2, 2013 by

Wants to take science-funding decisions away from scientists

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Lamar Smith: Science Peer Revi...

May 1, 2013 by

The chairman of the House Science Committee on Tuesday defended his controversial draft legislation ..

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The Biggest Climate Threat: Fe...

Apr 29, 2013 by

“We already know it is too late to reverse the planet’s transformation,..

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Franken-Apples Coming to a Sto...

Apr 26, 2013 by

Biotech’s Latest Creation:

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James Hansen on Climate Change

Apr 25, 2013 by

The country’s leading climatologist talks about what our future looks like…

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Corporate Cash Influencing Uni...

Apr 22, 2013 by

A look into research at UC Berkeley, and how higher education may be primarily serving as an engine for economic growth.

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Belief in free market economic...

Apr 22, 2013 by

“The conspiracist ideation that all of the world’s scientific academies have conspired together to create a hoax …

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Are Economists Anti Science?

Apr 21, 2013 by

Those who believe in a popular conservative economic theory are also more likely to not believe in science..

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10 ways 3D printers are advanc...

Apr 20, 2013 by

3D printers, the rapid building machines that create objects from plastic filament..

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Carbon ‘tape’ easi...

Apr 12, 2013 by

As a society we can’t seem to, or don’t seem to want to wean ourselves from flying around the world.

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Creating a Vital Long View for...

Apr 12, 2013 by

Last year, Michael SanClements, an ecologist affiliated with the Institute of Arctic & Alpine Research..

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Give The People What They Want...

Apr 11, 2013 by

Listen up lawmakers. Doing what’s right also happens to be doing what’s popular.

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When is a Person Not a Human? ...

Apr 10, 2013 by

After I wrote over the weekend about new research on the killing method employed in the dolphin roundups..

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Watch: Chris Hayes Defends Stu...

Apr 5, 2013 by

What is with Republicans and science? Seriously, it does real damage.

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China is overfishing its offic...

Apr 4, 2013 by

All of this just makes me wonder how many other countries are doing the same.

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Misunderstanding Of Climate Ch...

Apr 1, 2013 by

[Translate] The Huffington Post Posted: 03/28/2013 5:59 pm EDT  |  Updated: 03/28/2013 6:02 pm EDT From Climate Central’s...

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Frackers dodge responsibility ...

Mar 29, 2013 by

We’ve known for a couple of years that fracking for oil and gas has been linked to some sizable earthquakes.

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EPA Lets Pesticides on the Mar...

Mar 28, 2013 by

You probably wouldn’t expect to find pesticides in your toothpaste or your gym socks..

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The Long Shadow of Budget Cuts...

Mar 16, 2013 by

John Broder has reported that President Obama will today try to push forward with a State of the Union pledge…

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Corn free: Cutting back on our...

Mar 12, 2013 by

We at Grist go on and on about corn -

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Forests growing in thawed-out ...

Mar 11, 2013 by

Forests are marching northward into the Arctic.

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Global temperatures are at a 4...

Mar 9, 2013 by

The news lately has been so full of broken weather records..

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Scientists Find an Abrupt Warm...

Mar 7, 2013 by

There’s long been a general picture of the climate of the Holocene,..

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Volcanoes are keeping the plan...

Mar 5, 2013 by

While we’ve been pumping the atmosphere full of heat-trapping gases…

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How NASA scientists are turnin...

Mar 4, 2013 by

Today, Mount Wilson is the site of a more terrestrial but no less ambitious endeavor.

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GMO fail: Monsanto foiled by f...

Mar 2, 2013 by

It’s been a good week if you enjoy a little GMO schadenfreude.

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Think Beyond Plastic: Where Do...

Mar 1, 2013 by

We’ve reached a plastic fork in the road;

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