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Harry Reid slugs fossil fuels in the face
The Senate's top Democrat isn't only throwing punches at Romney. He's also got it in for climate deniers and the coal industry.
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Normal-looking trees might be actually be stuffed with methane
Diseased but healthy-looking trees might contribute as much as 10 percent of global methane emissions.
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Q&A with ‘Mohawk Guy’ Bobak Ferdowsi, the new face of science
I love the fact that NASA’s dishy mohawked flight director Bobak Ferdowsi is now basically a household name, putting a human (and handsome) face on the Curiosity mission and space exploration in general. If we’re going to survive as a civilization or a species, we need to get excited about science, and it helps when […]
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Great news: The world is on the brink of a massive boom in oil production
You can't spell "dystopia" without O-Y.
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New NASA time-lapse video makes Earth look almost as cool as Mars
Mars is the star of the news cycle right now, but this new time-lapse video of Earth from the International Space Station kind of gives the Red Planet a run for its money.
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For this cat, learning to surf is a survival skill
I’m really hoping this is a glimpse of evolution in action — like, over thousands of years, the cats that know how to work surfboards will be more likely to survive dog attacks and live long enough to breed, and in a few millennia we’ll have a race of semi-aquatic feline surfer dudes.
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U.S. curbs nuke plants till it figures out how to clean up after them
Since the government isn't clear on how it will get rid of nuclear waste, it's going to stop issuing permits. Makes sense.
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This Olympic cycling video is basically TRON
[vimeo 47100629] If you couldn’t tell from the robot voice intoning “VEL-O-DROME” for nearly a minute and a half, this is the welcome video for the Olympic velodrome, where the cycling events take place. And as far as I can tell, it was produced in 1982 and just held in a vault for the last 30 […]
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Chevron refinery explosion reminds us that fossil fuels are killers
In the aftermath of the refinery explosion in Richmond, Calif., this week, one nearby resident reflects on how our energy system is deadly -- even when it is working exactly as it should.
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Rising Temperature Raising Food Prices
Over the last two months, the price of corn has been climbing. On July 19th, it exceeded $8 per bushel for the first time, taking the world into a new food price terrain. With heat and drought still smothering the Corn Belt, we may well see more all-time highs in coming weeks as the extent […]
