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UN Panel on Climate Change Says We’re Fucked
Welcome to the future. Karl Spencer/Getty Images Time to take up smoking, everyone! The planet is going to shit so fast, drought will probably get to you before the cancer does. On Monday, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a depressing new report about just how fucked we are when it comes […]
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Thank You for Not Breeding
Sure, the Voluntary Extinction Movement Doesn’t Want You to Have Babies—But There’s Much More to the Story
When I arrived at Cathedral Park to meet Les Knight, I figured I’d be able to pick his face out of the crowd. I had, after all, watched an interview Knight did with Tucker Carlson in 2005, during which he was dressed in a shade of khaki that only a soft-spoken environmentalist would wear on-camera. […]
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It’s Not Just Climate Change That Has Caused the California Wildfires
Terray Sylvester/Getty Images As wildfires burn across California, destroying homes and lives in the process, we look for simple explanations. For most of us who don’t live in the White House, climate change is an adequate one. For one thing, we can see and feel that the world is getting hotter: In the last decade, […]
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Starbucks Straw Ban Is Good PR but Will Do Less Than Nothing for the Planet
Starbucks new lids require more plastic than straws.
Posted inNews
You Still Shouldn’t Be Eating Willamette River Fish
Health Advisory Warns Against Consuming Toxic Fish
Health advisory warns against eating Willamette river fish.
Posted inFood and Drink
The Last Straw
Why Local Bar Owners Are Getting Rid of Single-Use Plastic Straws
Local restaurateurs, bar owners, and nonprofits are teaming up to save the oceans from their greatest threat—us.
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House of Representatives and Logging Industry Poised to Make Eagle Creek Fire Damage Worse
The aftermath of the Eagle Creek Fire Trip Jennings/Balance Media Even before the Eagle Creek Fire was extinguished in the Columbia River Gorge last summer, Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Arkansas) wasted no time at all proposing a bill that would open the Gorge and other federal lands to clearcutting. Westerman and his friends in the forestry […]
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Patagonia Is Very Angry About Trump Slashing National Monuments
Go to Patagonia.com right now and you’ll see quite the landing page
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Dismantling the Clean Power Plan Will Not Save Coal Jobs and Trump Knows It
Coal isn’t dying because of environmental regulations.
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CNN Says Don’t Worry About Iceberg The Size of Delaware That Broke From Antarctica
Antarctica NASA CNN says this trillion-ton event changes nothing. Water levels will be the same, humans will not be harmed by “one of the biggest ever recorded” icebergs to break from the Antarctic shelf. Late in the post, CNN mildly mentions global warming, which may or may not have played role in all of this. […]
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We’re All Going to Die, New York Magazine Edition
Hey, remember when the New Yorker scared the shit out of everyone in Seattle—and Tacoma, Portland, Eugene, Salem, Olympia, Seaside, Long Beach, and Vancouver—with that article about the 9.0 earthquake that will sooner or later (probably sooner) wipe out “everything west of Interstate 5”? (“The Really Big One,” Kathryn Schulz, July 20, 2015.) Remember how […]