Ben Jervey

United States Is an Embarrassing 17th in Clean Tech Production

United States Is an Embarrassing 17th in Clean Tech Production

It doesn't look like we're winning the future, unfortunately.

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Army Corps to Decide Between Two Floods

In Louisiana, the Army Corps weighs the risks of two floods: to devastate farmlands or to roll the dice with a historic swell pushing through New...

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Video: Climate Scientists As Hardcore Rappers

Video: Climate Scientists As Hardcore Rappers

Watch as Australian climate scientists rap—and swear a lot—about their work. It's pretty funny, we swear.

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Should We Follow the Dutch and Give Land Back to the Flooding Mississippi River?

Should We Follow the Dutch and Give Land Back to the Flooding Mississippi River?

Rather than battle rivers with expensive dikes and levees and canals, the Dutch give them more room to flow freely. Maybe we could learn from them.

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Vote Now in the Great Google Science Fair

Vote Now in the Great Google Science Fair

The Google Global Science Fair finalists have been announced. Vote to see who gets $10,000.

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Climate Change Will Ruin Your WiFi Connection (And Much More Important Things)

Climate Change Will Ruin Your WiFi Connection (And Much More Important Things)

A new UK government report warns that your wireless internet connection is at risk from global warming. If only that was the only problem.

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Vatican Climate Warning: "Humans Must Act Decisively Now to Avert a Coming Crisis"

Vatican Climate Warning: "Humans Must Act Decisively Now to Avert a Coming Crisis"

There have been plenty of warnings from religious groups about climate change, but maybe none as dire and direct as these from Vatican.

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Nine Out of Ten Climate Denying Scientists Have Ties to Exxon Mobil Money

Nine Out of Ten Climate Denying Scientists Have Ties to Exxon Mobil Money

A new website boasts "900+ peer-reviewed papers" that deny climate science. Problem is lots of those papers were paid for by Big Oil.

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Ways to Better Spend $4 Billion Per Year in Oil Subsidies

Ways to Better Spend $4 Billion Per Year in Oil Subsidies

Here are three ways we could better our Big Oil subsidies. Except these ideas would actually ease pain at the pump and save Americans money.

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Moving Planet: A Day to Move Beyond Fossil Fuels

Moving Planet: A Day to Move Beyond Fossil Fuels

Our good friends at 350.org just announced the plan for their next big global day of climate action. Get the details here.

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"There Goes the Data": Why We Need to Fund the Energy Information Agency

"There Goes the Data": Why We Need to Fund the Energy Information Agency

The Energy Information Agency collects data on how America produces and uses oil—but it's now being forced to cut back. Here's why we need the EIA.

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Death By One Big Hatchet Stroke

Fifteen Republican senators introduced a bill to abolish the E.P.A.

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House Passes Offshore Drilling Legislation, But It Won't Lower Gas Prices at All

House Passes Offshore Drilling Legislation, But It Won't Lower Gas Prices at All

Even George W. Bush's economics adviser says that the act passed today in the House won't bring down the price of gas.

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"The Project Flood Is Upon Us": Mississippi River Surge Is a 1-in-500 Year Event

"The Project Flood Is Upon Us": Mississippi River Surge Is a 1-in-500 Year Event

The Mississippi flood happening now is a "Project Flood"—the biggest that could ever occur on the river.

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Sarah Palin, Tea Partier in Name Only, Defends Big Oil Subsidies

Sarah Palin, Tea Partier in Name Only, Defends Big Oil Subsidies

Sarah Palin thinks that $4 billion is "just a drop in the bucket." Would her Tea Party supporters agree?

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Girl Scouts Are Awesome: Saving the Rainforest From Their Cookies

Girl Scouts Are Awesome: Saving the Rainforest From Their Cookies

Two young scouts were horrified to learn of the terrible environmental impacts of their cookies. Here's how you can help them fix things.

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Coal, Still the Enemy of the Human Race

This is what fossil fuel extraction looks like: five dead, seven still missing in a Mexican coal mine explosion.

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New Study Says Bad Air Makes for Bad Workers

New Study Says Bad Air Makes for Bad Workers

CEOs take note: A compromised ability to breathe makes people less effective cogs in your profit machine.

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Tough Choices in Face of Historic Floods

In the face of historic floods, the Army Corps of Engineers blasted a Mississippi River levee, sacrificing 100 homes to spare a town of 2,800.

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This Class of Geography Students Found Bin Laden's Hideout Long Before the CIA

This Class of Geography Students Found Bin Laden's Hideout Long Before the CIA

A UCLA professor and his class predicted there was an 80 percent chance that Bin Laden was hiding in Abbottabad.

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