It was two years ago today that the Deepwater Horizon—a top-of-the-line offshore drilling rig owned by BP and run by Transocean—experienced a sudden burst of gas from a three-mile long well its crew was drilling in the Gulf …
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Clean Tech Support Is About to Fall Off a Cliff. Here’s One Way to Save It
Debt-ridden and sclerotic Japan hasn’t been the go-to example of smart foreign governments since about 1991—that slot is now occupied by China—but there’s one program from Tokyo that the U.S. would be wise to copy. It’s …
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Your Time 100 Energy and Environment Influencers
It’s that time of year again—and no, I don’t mean International Jugglers Day, or even worse, Newspaper Columnists Day. It’s the annual unveiling of the TIME 100 list, our roundup of the most interesting and influential people …
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How Climate-Friendly Is Your Electric Car? It Depends On Where You Live
Up close, an electric vehicle is clearly cleaner than a gasoline-powered car. No matter how efficient a combustion engine becomes—and some gasoline-powered cars can be very efficient—it still, well, combusts, spewing carbon and other exhaust gases into the atmosphere. But nothing at all comes out the tailpipe of an electric car. It’s …
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Saving the Ends of the Earth
I could barely make out Steve Sanderson over the winds howling into the satellite phone. Sanderson, the head of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), was calling from Tierra del Fuego in Chile, an island off the very …
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Caged Hens: An Undercover Investigation Reveals Apparent Animal Cruelty at an Egg Farm
Last summer saw a rare détente between animal-rights advocates and industrial agriculture. The Humane Society of the U.S. — the largest animal-protection group in the country — and the farming trade group the United Egg …
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Why a Warm Winter Equals Early Wildfires
A wildfire inside the confines of a major city is nothing new in the U.S. It’s a little strange , though, when that city isn’t Los Angeles—constantly threatened by the dry Santa Ana winds of autumn—but rather, New York City. …
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What’s the Buzz: Study Links Pesticide With Honeybee Collapse
Colony collapse disorder (CCD)—the sudden and massive die-off of honeybees—has emerged as one of the most mysterious ecological disasters of the past several years, and one of the most expensive. Around the middle of the last …
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