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Pollution Highlights the Price China Is Paying for Rapid Development
Beijing has developed into an impressive modern city over the past two decades. But a tourist visiting the Chinese...
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Rising Mercury Emissions Increase Risk to Humans
Developing nations are facing growing health and environmental risks from increased exposure to mercury, according to a UN report....
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Building Support for Locally Relevant Climate Tech
Climate Innovation Centers can promote clean technologies but need backing with a coordinated effort
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The Kyoto Scorecard
The Kyoto Protocol on climate change used to be a big deal. So big that the future of humanity...
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Build the Death Star
Well, it’s taken 80 years, but the post–New Deal, post-military-industrial-complex mega-state has finally come up with a single good...
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Faith-Based Procrastination: Religious Job Bias in Taxpayer-Funded Program
No American should be denied a taxpayer-funded job because of what he or she believes about religion. Yet that’s...
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The Multibillion-Dollar Threat to Research Universities
With each day, the so-called fiscal cliff looms larger as Congress and President Obama work to come to agreement...
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Fighting Poverty By Giving Poor People Money
From Mattew Yglesias and the Slate MoneyBox blog: There’s more to life than just this, but I’ve come to think that...