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Top 10 energy alternatives
Widespread adoption of alternative technologies could ease the squeeze of high oil prices – and also could curb the pace of global climate change by limiting emissions of heat-trapping gases such as carbon dioxide.
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Battle of the Bags: Paper vs. Plastic
Msnbc.com takes you on interactive journey through the debate over the "greenest" way to cart away groceries.
Interactive
Carbon trade game
Learn how the "cap and trade" scheme works and play along in a simulated market.
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NBC News
Scenes from Greenland
‘NBC Nightly News’ reports from Ilulissat, Greenland, on the alarming melt of the Greenland ice sheet.
EGY: Central Cairo
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  World’s endangered rivers
See the rivers deemed at risk by the WWF. According to the group the rivers are quickly dying as a result of climate change, pollution and dams.
NASA via AP
  Earth from space
Click through the highlights from more than four decades of images of our home planet, taken by astronauts in orbit.
  10 Tips

Save the planet — and save some money, too. Here's how to help your bottom line by producing less carbon dioxide.

10 tips on Going Green

Interactives
Vital Signs of a Warming World
The science, impacts and scenarios of climate shifts
Carbon trade game
Learn how the "cap and trade" scheme works and play along in a simulated market.
Farming of the future?
Though vertical farms likely would rise just two or three stories, some researchers imagine 30-story buildings.
The greenhouse effect
How the Earth maintains a temperature conducive to life
Cooling the planet
Check out five far-out ideas on how to engineer a cooler Earth.
Eyeing the ice
The National Science Foundation's Tom Wagner on why climate experts study Antarctica.
Capturing CO2
A look at carbon sequestration
Melting mountains
Data shows five areas of concern
How hybrids work
What makes hybrid cars so fuel-efficient?

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