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There’s too much garbage for just two garbage patches
Scientists have discovered a new floating garbage island off the coast of Chile.
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Antarctica takes out its frustration on the children of the 1%
A melting Antarctica sends a gigantic 30-foot wave at a luxury cruise ship full of chi-chi high schoolers, shattering windows and causing general terror.
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How to get absolutely freaking (almost) everywhere in California without a car
The California Rail Map is a subway map unlike no other.
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If you want to pass climate legislation, fix U.S. politics
Cap-and-trade failed because U.S. politics is broken, among other reasons. Restoring democracy must be part of the road forward for climate hawks.
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Watch seriously endangered baby birds take their first steps
Spoon-billed sandpipers are super-adorable, and there are only 100 breeding pairs left in the wild.
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You can see North Dakota’s oil fracking fields from space
What a handy signal to alien races that they should have nothing to do with us.
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Did Google kill a donkey in Botswana?
It looks … dead. In fact, it looks … like it got RUN OVER BY THE STREET VIEW CAR.
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Global Grain Stocks Drop Dangerously Low as 2012 Consumption Exceeded Production
By Janet Larsen The world produced 2,241 million tons of grain in 2012, down 75 million tons or 3 percent from the 2011 record harvest. The drop was largely because of droughts that devastated several major crops—namely corn in the United States (the world’s largest crop) and wheat in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Australia. Each […]
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Ken Cuccinelli and Dominion Power Move to Repeal Virginia RPS
Breaking: Cuccinelli and Dominion Move to Repeal Virginia’s Clean Electricity Standard Proposed legislation would harm environment and, opponents say, constitutes a confession that Dominion has accepted $77 million from ratepayers without properly fulfilling intent of current law RICHMOND—Dominion Virginia Power has informed environmental groups that the company has reached a tentative agreement with Virginia Attorney […]
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The road forward from cap-and-trade
After diagnosing what went wrong on cap-and-trade, political scientist Theda Skocpol suggests one way to proceed. It's not a very good one -- so here's an alternative.
