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Colorado’s Biblical Floods Linked to Climate Change
Subhankar Banerjee: The media has utterly failed its responsibility to inform the public of the link between climate change and worsening natural disasters.

Bill McKibben: Obama Can Salvage His Climate Legacy by Rejecting Keystone XL Oil Pipeline
McKibben argues that Obama's pending decision on whether to approve or reject the Keystone XL's construction is a historic opportunity.

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Frackademia: The People and Money Behind the EDF Methane Emissions Study
The long-awaited Environmental Defense Fund-sponsored fracking fugitive methane emissions study is finally out. Unfortunately, it's another case of "frackademia."

Southern Leg of Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline Flunks Climate Test Too
Tthe 485-mile southern leg of Keystone XL will give TransCanada strategic access to these US coastal ports.

Crises Today, Catastrophe Tomorrow – An Analysis (12 September 2013)
If we wanted to, we could begin to get global warming under control and manage its consequences for as long as it takes to minimize the threat.

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Boulder Flooding: Remembering Warnings from Weather Report
Colorado was plagued with devastating wildfires this summer. Now come the floods.

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Common Ground’s Eighth Anniversary: A Model of Volunteer-Driven Rebuilding in New Orleans
Common Ground offers a model of how volunteers of good will working with affected communities can make a difference.

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Supertankers to Ply the Great White Slushie: Global Warming’s Latest Feedback Loop
Less predictable are the insane human behavior feedback loops, where the warming climate triggers a self-destructive pathological greed within corporate culture.

On the News With Thom Hartmann: New Federal Regulations Could Make it Easier for Veterans and Disabled Workers to Find a Job, and More
In today's On the News segment: Fifty years after Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. told the world about his dream, our nation's first African-American president spoke from the …

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Things to Know as Collapse Becomes Hip
Economists never seem to connect the eco in economy to the eco in ecosystem; but as financial, economic, and climate collapse continues, people must rise to change our world's …