Navajo Nation Builds Momentum for Renewable Energy
The U.S. Southwest is ground zero in the effort to transition America to an energy portfolio of renewables. What are the first steps, and who is making them?
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Oklahoma Earthquakes and the Wages of Fracking
European experiences offer hints as to whether high seismicity in the U.S. oil patch is related to new gas extraction methods.
Ocean Health Index Accounts for Human Benefits
Oceans are peopled, too! Assessing all of the ways the world’s oceans directly benefit humans is not easy, but it must be done in any honest accounting for the Ocean Health Index.
Alligator River Refuge Rolls Back From Rising Sea
As coastlines are battered by rising seas, staff at North Carolina’s Alligator River Wildlife Refuge look for ways to make an orderly retreat.
Vehicle-to-Grid: A New Spin on Car Payments
Buried in the high hopes for electric cars is the very real possibility that they can make money by powering and regulating the grid.
Wildlife CSI Positively Identified Bat Killer
A fungus long suspected as the cause of the white-nose syndrome killing American bats has been positively ID'd as the culprit.
US, EU in Dogfight Over Airline Emissions
Europe forges ahead on tackling greenhouse gas emissions, but the U.S. wants to ground certain rules that affect its airlines.
Chiapas Coffee: Price, Politics and Precipitation
High prices, crazy politics and crazier weather threaten to wreck the symbiosis of shade-grown coffee in southern Mexico, as our Kristian Beadle explains in the second half of his look at Chiapas.
New Zealand Imports Foreign Workers: Dung Beetles
Burned by past introductions of "helpful" foreign species, New Zealand inches toward releasing the imported insects to clean up its pastures full of other introduced animals.
Chiapas’ Coffee Growers: Accidental Environmentalists
Kristian Beadle steps off a rickety bus in southern Mexico and finds a traditional coffee-growing culture that suits modern sustainability efforts admirably.