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Toxic Secrets: The town that 3M built – where kids are dying of cancer
The fear that cancer is stalking their children has left some of Oakdale’s parents saddened and bewildered. “We’re bombarded with it,” said one mother, Kristi Schaut, who lost her daughter to leukaemia in 2007.
The Silence of the Bugs
Fifty-six years after Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” warned of bird die-offs from pesticides, a new biocrisis may be emerging.
True Spring is Late This Year
True Washington spring weather is late this year. Despite new, record CO2 atmospheric concentrations of 410 ppm in April and warmer than average global temperatures in March and April, the cherry blossoms and warm, sunny weather lagged behind schedule.
There’s No Power Grid Emergency Requiring a Coal Bailout, Regulators Say
The idea that the power grid is so frail it’s become a national security crisis got little support from FERC commissioners testifying before Congress.
The Ocean Is Getting More Acidic—What That Actually Means
Thanks to carbon emissions, the ocean is changing, and that is putting a whole host of marine organisms at risk. These scientists are on the front lines.