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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.
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Somehow horse meat made it into a bunch of burgers in Ireland and the U.K.
French people might enjoy horse meat every now and again, but the British, as a rule, do not. Nor do the Irish.
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Virginia AG Cuccinelli leads charge to yank renewable energy credits
It's certainly got nothing to do with his political ambitions, of course.
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Broad support and $1 will get a pol a cup of coffee
Public support for action on climate change keeps increasing -- but nothing will happen without a loud, active, well-funded faction threatening to punish intransigent politicians at the ballot box.
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Here’s that squid porn you ordered
This daring squid porno finally answers some questions about how deep-sea squid mate. (They bone upside down so the male doesn't get eaten.)
