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What all our computers together can tell us about climate change
By hooking up laptops and desktops into a distributing computing network, volunteers can help climate scientists crunch numbers.
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Climate-changed oceans will mess with life above and below water
Oceans make up 70 percent of the Earth’s surface; as they absorb more and more atmospheric heat and CO2, their changes will be felt on land, too.
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Want a job? Knock on Tesla’s door
Tesla has hired about 3,000 people during the past year, making it the No. 1 auto employer in California. And it's planning to hire 500 more this year.
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This giant hamster wheel is cleaning up Baltimore Harbor
You still shouldn't just chuck your old boots into the harbor, but it’s pretty cool, right?
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San Francisco considers banning exports of coal and petcoke
The city is exploring a proposal to keep "hazardous fossil fuel materials" away from its ports.
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If you keep illegally dumping fracking waste, Big Oil, we’ll keep videotaping you
We’ve got camera phones, and we aren’t afraid to use them. And by "we" I mean mom and organic farmer Amber Lyssy.
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Get ready for a whole new kind of climate change lawsuit
An insurance company is suing Chicago-area municipalities for not doing enough to prepare for climate change–juiced flooding.
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Climate change is turning sea turtles female
At incubation temperatures higher than 84 degrees F, fewer and fewer males are born. They need a box fan or more umbrella drinks, stat!
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Is the Obama admin leaning toward requiring frackers to disclose the chemicals they use?
In an interview with Grist, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz suggested that frackers might need to be more forthcoming about their chemical cocktails.
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North Carolina GOP pushes unprecedented bill to jail anyone who discloses fracking chemicals
The new bill proposes one of the strictest pro-fracking rules to date.
