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    Molly Redden

  • 4 Reasons You Should Worry About Another Sandy

    Chris Mooney

  • Which 9 Household Items Will Make Your Hormones Go Haywire?

    Maggie Caldwell

  • How Hurricane Sandy Displaced Everything It Touched

    Mindy Fullilove

  • Energy Boomtowns Give Law Enforcement a Huge Headache

    Mike Riggs

  • Remember When Big Tobacco Sold Asbestos as the “Greatest Health Protection”?

    Myron Levin

  • How 9 Major Papers Deal With Climate-Denying Letters

    Jeremy Schulman

  • The Worst Wildfires in a Decade Pour Acrid Smoke Over Sydney

    John Metcalfe

  • How Green Is Cory Booker?

    Brentin Mock

  • How Do You Get People to Give a Damn About Climate Change?

    Chris Mooney

  • How Somali Pirates Almost (but Not Quite) Halted Vital Climate Change Research

    Richard Schiffman

  • How Oil and Gas Drillers Avoid Paying Royalties

    — By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica

  • Why Residents of Disaster-Prone Areas Don’t Move

    Harvey Molotch

  • Get Ready for Record Temperatures…for the Rest of Your Life

    Maggie Severns

  • 5 Ways Monsanto Wants to Profit Off Climate Change

    Maggie Severns

  • Why Big Coal’s Export Terminals Could be Even Worse Than the Keystone XL Pipeline

    Josh Harkinson

  • Why Doesn’t Climate Change Get the Attention it Deserves?

    Rebecca Solnit

  • Who Created the Global Warming “Pause”?

    Chris Mooney

  • Which Airline Is Most Fuel Efficient?

    Tasneem Raja and Maggie Severns

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