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The Complicated Case for Pollotarianism

America should eat more chicken. But how many is too many?

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Formula One Races Into Climate Change

What happens to a famously globetrotting sport when the globe becomes hard to trot?

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King Charles hugging a tree.

How Green Is the ‘Green King,’ Really?

King Charles III has been called “the real deal” — and also a climate fraud.

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Greenwashing.

Greenwashing Week Is Here

How “Earth Week” became a marketing bonanza

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New England’s Most Important Weather Forecast Is Getting More Unpredictable

The Boston Marathon is in three days. The weather forecast this year has been notably chaotic.

Marathon runners.
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The second Saturday of April is the most important weather-related day on New England’s calendar, if not America’s.

The reason? It’s when Boston Marathon Monday finally appears in the 10-day forecast.

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The Hot, Fast Future of Baseball

It’s getting hot in here, so close up all your domes

A baseball player swinging a thermometer.
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Home runs ain’t the half of it.

Last week, the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society issued a widely cited report that found global warming is “juicing” baseballs. The result is an extra 50 or so home runs per year in the major leagues. “It’s basic physics,” The Associated Press explained. “When air heats up, molecules move faster and away from each other, making the air less dense. Baseballs launched off a bat go farther through thinner air because there’s less resistance to slow the ball.”

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