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Evidence from Cassini spacecraft suggests a large body of liquid water beneath the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus

Walmart employees consume billions in food stamps each year, but raising their wages to a point where they wouldn’t need them anymore would only increase prices by about 1.4 percent

The sad truth is that open source software — which underpins vast swathes of the net — has a serious sustainability problem. Money doesn’t necessarily buy good code, but it pays for software audits and face-to-face meetings, and it can free up open-source coders from their day jobs.

Seven reasons why we should be raising the federal minimum to $15 an hour

Snowden: Take Back the Internet. McDonald's Steals From Employees. Joy Behar Roasts Chris Christie. White Rabbit, Live from Woodstock. If Walmart Paid a Living Wage ...

The industry's use of the crisis in Ukraine to expand its global market under the banner of "energy security" must be seen in the context of this uninterrupted record of crisis opportunism. Only this time many more of us know where true energy security lies. Responding to the threat of catastrophic warming is our most pressing energy imperative. And we simply can't afford to be distracted by the natural gas industry's latest crisis-fuelled marketing ploy.

Nobel laureate says 'people of conscience' must break ties with oil and gas companies that are destroying planet's future.

The second part of the new IPCC Report has been approved ... the situation is no less serious than it was at the time of the previous report 2007. There is a better understanding of observed impacts worldwide and of the specific situation of many developing countries and there is a new assessment of “smart” options for adaptation to climate change. The report clearly shows that adaptation is an option only if efforts to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions are strengthened.

Accuracy varies significantly across major cable news outlets. All of them can take steps to improve their coverage of climate science.

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