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“Global warming kills”
Amanda Griscom Little
Taking a page from the anti-smoking movement, Al Gore wants to convince all Americans, not just greens, to take action to cool down the planet.
The maternal is the political
Nina Burleigh
In a new book, one of the founders of MoveOn.org argues that the next Web-based grass-roots political movement should be led by mothers.
Who will pay the climate change piper?
Andrew Leonard
Shareholder activism aimed at Exxon: Judgment Day will come.
Is that climate change egg all over Ford’s face?
Andrew Leonard
Ford: Have you contributed to global warming skeptics, lately?
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
Will Tony go to jail? Will Carmela take over the
family business? Should AJ take out life insurance? Readers predict the ending of the final season of "The Sopranos."
Porter Goss’ spooky demise
Walter Shapiro
Bush's CIA chief abruptly resigns under a shadow of alleged ties to a corrupt congressman and leaves a spy agency in chaos.
Twilight of an ancient knowledge
Durrell Dawson
For centuries, New Zealand's Maoris have used intimate observation of nature to harvest eels and predict the weather. That marvelous legacy is endangered by climate change.
EPA to citizens: Frack you
Rebecca Clarren
In the Rockies, a gas-extraction process called "fracking" may be releasing a carcinogenic stew of chemicals. Dozens of people say it has made them seriously ill, but the EPA refuses to investigate -- a failure one of its own engineers calls "irrational and corrupt."
Lapdogs
Eric Boehlert
Cowardly and clueless, the U.S. media abandoned its post as Bush led the country into a disastrous war. A look inside one of the great journalistic collapses of our time.
Climate skeptic science does not compute
Andrew Leonard
RealClimate.org: Where junk science gets shredded into tiny pieces.
The woes of Kilimanjaro
Kate Cheney Davidson
The fabled glaciers on Tanzania's majestic mountain will soon be gone. Its forests are disappearing, too. For local farmers, this could mean disaster. For the rest of us, it's another unbearable loss on an overheating planet.
Gay partner loses ranch
Sarah Goldstein
When Samuel Beaumont's partner died, the rancher found that their 24 years of living together as parents and lovers meant little in the eyes of the law.
Classroom confidential
Sarah Karnasiewicz
Following a number of high-profile sex abuse scandals, high schools across the country have begun carefully policing teacher-student relationships. But is this new vigilance keeping the most committed teachers from doing their best?
Bush’s bogus boogeyman
Andrew Leonard
The president blames "boutique fuels" for high gas prices. Who does he think he's kidding?
Not a drop to drink
Katharine Mieszkowski
Pointing out that it takes 800 gallons of water to make one hamburger, a British writer argues that water shortage is the "defining crisis" of our time.
Only in a Humpty Dumpty world
Andrew Leonard
The snail darter, Bush's EPA and a conspiracy of industry tools.
Running scared in Ohio
Walter Shapiro
GOP Sen. Mike DeWine is worried enough about Bush's low approval ratings that he blasted Rumsfeld in an interview. Will the Democrats be able to take control of the state that swung the presidency last time?
Heating bills
Amanda Griscom Little
Public opinion has shifted on climate change, and even most lawmakers agree that emissions must be cut. So why is the proposed legislation so feeble?
Before the flood
Emilie Raguso, Sandhya Somashekhar
Global warming is threatening Bangladesh's coast. But the area's tens of millions of residents don't want to move.
The vanishing of a tropical nation
Aaron Selverston
Rising seas are swamping the 33-island republic of Kiribati. Where will its 100,000 inhabitants go when their country becomes uninhabitable?
A resolute attitude toward peak oil
Andrew Leonard
San Francisco tries to save civilization from itself.
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