News and commentary about environmental issues.

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• Kashmir's Raging Rivers Can India and Pakistan overcome decades of mistrust to save the Indus Waters Treaty?
  Jonathan Mingle Aug. 4, 2011
  
• Sharkonomics What's good for sharks is good for the economy.
  Juliet Eilperin June 30, 2011
  
• How To Spark a Right-Wing Frenzy My one-minute YouTube clip of Al Gore was a conservative-media sensation. Here's why I took it down.
  Brian Merchant June 24, 2011
  
• Monitoring the Monitors Who's still tracking radiation from Fukushima? And who should we trust?
  Daniel Krieger June 16, 2011
  
• Plastic by Any Other Name Coke and Pepsi's plant-based bottles still damage the environment.
  Amy Westervelt June 14, 2011
  
• Do Climate Skeptics Change Their Minds? Yes. But not often.
  Brian Merchant May 12, 2011
  
• Ice Flows What do 28,000 time-lapse photos tell us about Everest's melting glaciers?
  Lisa Palmer May 10, 2011
  
• Biodegradable Envelope, Please How did readers do on Slate's energy consumption quiz?
  Jeremy Singer-Vine April 27, 2011
  
• Nuclear Inertia How do nuclear accidents affect nuclear power-plant construction? I built a giant database to find out.
  Matthew Fuhrmann April 26, 2011
  
• Take Slate's Energy Quiz! Do you know how much energy common household appliances consume?
  Jeremy Singer-Vine April 21, 2011
  
• The Devil We Know What backpedaling on nuclear power would mean for the rest of U.S. energy policy.
  Michael Levi March 21, 2011
  
• Atomic Priesthoods, Thorn Landscapes, and Munchian Pictograms How to communicate the dangers of nuclear waste to future civilizations.
  Juliet Lapidos March 16, 2011
  
• Organic Crops Alone Can't Feed the World A new study shows why.
  James E. McWilliams March 10, 2011
  
• Rooftop Pipe-Dream Be wary of the booming market for pint-sized, roof-mounted windmills.
  Amy Westervelt Feb. 12, 2011
  
• The Little Green Pill How can we make pharmaceutical drugs less toxic to the environment?
  Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow Jan. 3, 2011