The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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General Mills Bans GMOs in Cheerios, Setting New Bar for Cereal Production
Across America the news was greeted with measured optimism as food activists praised the company's decision, saying it would help end the still-popular belief that GMOs are a viable, sustainable future solution for food production.
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Invading the Vaca Muerta: A Brief Summary of Recent Events
The Vaca Muerta Petroleum System in the western Argentina province of Neuquén is a large shale rock formation with major gas and oil resources.
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Researchers Find 7,300-Mile Ring of Mercury Around Alberta Tar Sands in Canada
Government scientists are preparing to publish a report that finds levels of mercury up to 16 times higher around the tar sand operations, principally due to oil and gas companies' excavation and transportation of bitumen in the sands.
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What Pine Beetles' Destruction of Wyoming Forests Signals for Our Climate Future
The relationship between pine beetles and the woodlands they occupy has historically been one of elegant symbiosis. Now the beetles are wreaking havoc — and as long as temperatures keep rising, so will their populations in the West.
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Organic Farmers vs. Monsanto: Final Appeal to Supreme Court to Protect Crops from GMOs
Jim Gerritsen, an organic seed farmer on Wood Prairie Farm in Maine and president of the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association suing Monsanto, has spent the past 37 years protecting and maintaining the integrity of his seed stock.
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To Save Ourselves, Is It Time for a Global Climate Insurgency?
The action of the Arctic 30 wasn't just a protest on an Arctic oil platform. It may be prophetic of something more: the emergence of a global insurgency that challenges the very legitimacy of those who are destroying our planet.
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From France to Ethiopia, A Global Fight Grows Against Ivory and Illegal Poaching
“We must work and work and work towards ending the unnecessary killing of elephants for their tusks and ivory because it is destroying the natural wildlife and landscape that makes this part of the world so amazing and beautiful."
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Appalachia Needs Regeneration and New Energy Solutions, Not Christmas Nostalgia
A retired coal miner in eastern Kentucky recently sent me an early Christmas card warning. “Whatever you do,” he wrote, “I prefer dirty coal from Santa Claus instead of the annual drivel of ‘Christmas in Appalachia’ pity.”
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Texans Fear For Health and Safety As Keystone XL Pipeline Nears On-Switch
The Keystone XL pipeline will carry oil from Canada to American refineries near the Gulf of Mexico. Those in favor of it say it will increase access to oil from Canada, the leading supplier of crude oil to the U.S. Andy Gallacher reports.
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Talking Trash and Climate Crisis: A Conversation with Chicago's Garbage Guru
Elise Zelechowski, executive director of the ReBuilding Exchange, on the need to rethink the waste stream, the economic and environmental impacts of creative reuse, and how making trash visible is key to making it manageable.
