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This snail-eating fish was named after the Obamas
Meet Teleogramma obamaorum -- and other species named after the president.
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Gloomy alleyways are getting a much-needed makeover
Seattle activists are turning dingy alleys into cool hangouts.
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This cleantech expert lays down the facts on solar and natural gas
Jessika Trancik wants to speed up the development of clean energy technologies
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Climate change is a security threat. Make it a foreign policy priority
The Department of Defense agrees—so why aren't foreign policy officials on board yet?
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Sea levels will rise by at least 20 feet — and that’s the positive scenario
Even if the world manages to limit global warming to 2 degrees C, sea levels may still radically reshape the world’s coastline.
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There are sharks living in a volcano, and this is not a drill
Just when you think the world can't get any stranger or more surprising ... we find sharks swimming around in a volcano.
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This video game will make you care about crumbling urban infrastructure
What could be scarier than playing a structural engineer facing down collapsing bridges and backed-up sewers?
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This beautiful video of plankton eating plastic is also a little disturbing
Plastic really is everywhere.
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Enviros, Tea Partiers, and the Christian Coalition all agree: Florida needs more rooftop solar
The battle over a solar ballot amendment just keeps getting more interesting.
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It turns out Mr. Baseball is still the worst thing Tom Selleck has done
The media has been enraged about the story of Tom Selleck trucking water from a fire hydrant to water avocados. The truth is less exciting.
