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What happens when we run out of water?

Charles Fishman
Over the last century, H20 has become so convenient we take it for granted. That's about to change
Syncrude's Mildred Lake mine site and plant near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. It is the biggest oil sand mining facility in the world.

The ugly truth about energy

Ellen Cantarow
Our "safe" Canadian oil imports are much more dangerous than we'd like to believe

How to make climate skeptics angry

Andrew Leonard
A Berkeley scientist's sin: Coming up with the wrong answer

How the golden years disappeared

Marc Freedman
At 50, I made a startling realization: I was burning out, but nowhere near retirement -- and I wasn't alone
President Barack Obama pauses while speaking during his visit to a UPS shipping facility in Landover, Md., Friday, April 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

Citizenship duties

Glenn Greenwald
Why are some so willing to ditch their own critical faculties to support a politician?
Senator Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.

Michigan vs. California: The global warming smackdown continues

Andrew Leonard
Senator Debbie Stabenow joins the cripple-the-EPA crowd. Got to keep those tailpipes polluting!
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This is why the GOP might force a shutdown?

Peter Finocchiaro
Defunding Planned Parenthood, gutting the EPA and more: The bottom-line demands that House Republicans are making

GOP suddenly discovers the Senate is broken

Andrew Leonard
Short memory hypocrisy alert: House Republicans complain about Senate delays on budget negotiations

My boyfriend’s a dreamer

Cary Tennis
I'm trying to keep my feet on the ground but he's up in the air
A survivor cuts woods for fire to warm at a shelter in the devastated town of Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Monday, March 28, 2011. The March 11 quake off Japan's northeast coast triggered a tsunami that barreled onshore and disabled the Fukushima nuclear complex. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) (AP)

Unpacking for a disaster

Rebecca Solnit
What you need to survive the unexpected
Jane Pederson, center, of Menomonie, Wis., protests in front of the offices of Koch Industries in Madison, Wis., Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011. Opponents to the governor's budget are in their tenth day of protests. (AP Photo/Andy Manis) (AP)

Billionaire self-pity and the Koch brothers

Glenn Greenwald
The libertarian tycoons explain why they are the true victims of America's political culture
Rush Limbaugh

What the right means when it calls NPR “liberal”

Bill Moyers, Michael Winship
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship debunk the claim that NPR is the left-wing opposite of the right-wing media machine
The author, center, with his wife, two children and brother-in-law.

What I left behind in Japan

Mike Plugh
My family and I fled the ravaged country for safety here. But I can never tear myself away completely
In this image from video, police carry off a demonstrator during a protest at the State Capitol, Thursday, March 10, 2011, in Madison, Wis. Police carried dozens of protesters from a hallway leading to the Wisconsin Assembly on Thursday as Democratic representatives pounded on the locked door of the chamber, demanding to be let in to the room where a vote was scheduled on an explosive bill that would take away public workers' collective bargaining rights. (AP Photo/Robert Ray) (AP)

The states’ legislative sadists

David Sirota
Mad scientists of lawmaking are looking to go medieval on America. Here are six examples

The nuclear credibility gap

Joan Walsh
As Japan and U.S. officials differ on risks, the Obama administration pushes ahead with nuclear power expansion

Triumph of the flat-earth Republicans

Andrew Leonard
Who cares what scientists believe? The House GOP is on the record, now and for all time: The earth isn't warming
Christine Todd Whitman

Crisis casts doubt on nuke industry P.R. campaign

Justin Elliott
Years of well-funded public-relations efforts have asserted that nuclear power is completely safe
A detail from the cover of "Aerotropolis"

The rise of the aerotropolis

Greg Lindsay, John D. Kasarda
A new town off the coast of Korea is the strangest example of a growing trend: Cities built around airports
A man holds his baby as they are scanned for levels of radiation in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Sunday, March 13, 2011. Friday's quake and tsunami damaged two nuclear reactors at a power plant in the prefecture, and at least one of them appeared to be going through a partial meltdown, raising fears of a radiation leak. (AP Photo/Mark Baker) (AP)

Nuke industry spin: Be “reassured” by Japan

Justin Elliott
As the crisis unfolds, the Nuclear Energy Institute joins an intense PR battle that has already started
This October 2008 photo shows the Fukushima No. 1 power plant of Tokyo Electric Power Co. at Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan. Japan's top government spokesman says the country has issued a state of emergency at the nuclear power plant after its cooling system failed. There was no radiation leak. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, FOR COMMERCIAL USE ONLY IN NORTH AMERICA (AP)

Why Japan probably won’t face a new Chernobyl

Mary Mycio
The explosion at Fukushima shows how far we've come in nuclear safety. It also proves how vulnerable we still are
Dead fish float in the King Harbor area of Redondo Beach, south of Los Angeles, Tuesday, March 8, 2011. An estimated million fish turned up dead on Tuesday, puzzling authorities and triggering a cleanup effort. (AP Photo/Alex Gallardo) (AP)

How big a problem is the Redondo Beach fish kill?

Peter Finocchiaro
Millions of fish died in California yesterday. Scientists say this isn't extraordinary. How worried should we be?

Yes, the Kochs fund groups out of self-interest

Alex Pareene
Men who make their living emitting carbon pay thinkers to argue against government regulation of carbon
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, center, and his wife, Ann, are greeted Saturday, March 5, 2011, in Bartlett, N.H. Romney was the keynote speaker at the Carroll County Republican Committee Lincoln Day Dinner. (AP Photo/Jim Cole) (AP)

A novice no more, Romney focuses on Obama, economy

Liz Sidoti
Former Massachusetts governor hopes to silence naysayers as he gears up for presidential bid
In this image provided by NASA the Italian-built Permanent Multipurpose Module in the grasp of the International Space Station's Canadarm2 is being transferred from space shuttle Discovery's payload bay to be permanently attached to the Earth-facing port of the station's Unity node Tuesday March 1, 2011. Earth's horizon and the blackness of space provide the backdrop for the scene. (AP Photo/NASA) (AP)

NASA satellite rocket launch fails, lands in ocean

Jessica Gresko, Seth Borenstein
The second failed earth-observation satellite spells trouble for NASA's environmental monitoring program
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