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Since Sputnik kicked off the space race, humans have steadily littered Earth’s orbit with derelict satellites, spent rocket stages and bits of space projects gone awry. Burgeoning space industries, private and public, only continue to add to the ev...

The Atmospheric Wasteland

Since Sputnik kicked off the space race, humans have steadily littered Earth’s orbit with derelict satellites, spent rocket stages and bits of space projects gone awry. Burgeoning space industries, private and public, only continue to add to the ev...

South Dakota might have one Washington on Mount Rushmore, but North Dakota has pockets lined with Benjamins. The state is experiencing an unprecedented period of economic growth and prosperity due to its booming oil industry — big enough to produce...

Bringing Home the Bakken

South Dakota might have one Washington on Mount Rushmore, but North Dakota has pockets lined with Benjamins. The state is experiencing an unprecedented period of economic growth and prosperity due to its booming oil industry — big enough to produce...

Roger Cohen wrote a recent op-ed in the New York Times lamenting what he referred to in the title of his column as “The Great Unraveling.” Mr. Cohen’s language conveyed an even more dire tone as he verged into the dystopian, structuring his col...

Things Stay the Same: Why Neoconservatives are Wrong

Roger Cohen wrote a recent op-ed in the New York Times lamenting what he referred to in the title of his column as “The Great Unraveling.” Mr. Cohen’s language conveyed an even more dire tone as he verged into the dystopian, structuring his col...

“We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations,” President Barack Obama declared during his Second Inaugural Address on January 21, 2013. At the time unemployme...

The Rocky Path to a Green Legacy

“We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations,” President Barack Obama declared during his Second Inaugural Address on January 21, 2013. At the time unemployme...

During the 1990’s a team of researchers operating in the Mediterranean Sea discovered a mass stranding of beaked whales, a behavior whereby the whales purposefully beach themselves, usually dying in the process. Mass strandings are extremely rare, ...

A Whale of a Problem: The US Navy and Environmentalism

During the 1990’s a team of researchers operating in the Mediterranean Sea discovered a mass stranding of beaked whales, a behavior whereby the whales purposefully beach themselves, usually dying in the process. Mass strandings are extremely rare, ...

The permanently emblazoned image of poverty is a toddler in some faraway place, his tattered clothes soiled by the filth in which he sits, imploring you to help with a sad look in his big, beautiful eyes. NGOs and charity organizations have perfected...

Living Without Lights

The permanently emblazoned image of poverty is a toddler in some faraway place, his tattered clothes soiled by the filth in which he sits, imploring you to help with a sad look in his big, beautiful eyes. NGOs and charity organizations have perfected...

Gay marriage bans are falling like dominos, and not just in liberal states —  first in Utah, then Oklahoma, Virginia and, most recently, Texas. These rulings, in addition to narrower rulings recognizing out-of-state same-sex marriages in Ohio and ...

Reid’s Nuclear Gamble

Gay marriage bans are falling like dominos, and not just in liberal states —  first in Utah, then Oklahoma, Virginia and, most recently, Texas. These rulings, in addition to narrower rulings recognizing out-of-state same-sex marriages in Ohio and ...

Ed Rosenthal, well-known marijuana legalization activist. The Emerald Triangle has been looking more brown than green recently. With California en route to what may be the worst drought in 500 years, the Emerald Triangle — Mendocino, Humboldt and T...

The Hidden Cost of the Emerald Cash Crop

Ed Rosenthal, well-known marijuana legalization activist. The Emerald Triangle has been looking more brown than green recently. With California en route to what may be the worst drought in 500 years, the Emerald Triangle — Mendocino, Humboldt and T...

Though climate change reform is the charge of the Democratic Party, the organization has allocated a disappointing amount of energy to pushing for new policy or even discussion of the issue. That’s why President Barack Obama took a significant step...

The Top Threat to Climate Change Action: Skepticism

Though climate change reform is the charge of the Democratic Party, the organization has allocated a disappointing amount of energy to pushing for new policy or even discussion of the issue. That’s why President Barack Obama took a significant step...