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Scientist would study climate change’s effects on turtles, if not for climate change
Will climate change complicate human attempts to adapt to a warmed world -- just as it complicates human attempts to study it?
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Will frackers cause California’s next big earthquake?
More than half of the wastewater injection wells being used by frackers in the state are within 10 miles of a recently active fault.
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Blacking out America would be a cinch, because there’s not enough distributed solar
America could go dark for up to 18 months if terrorists struck a few key points along the grid. Small-scale solar could make the system more resilient.
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America could be vegan by 2050, says lady totally out of touch with America
Do you really see our love affair with cheddar, bacon, and Greek yogurt going anywhere?
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What was the point of the Senate’s climate talkathon? Changing the terms of the political debate
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) tells Grist what he hoped to accomplish by getting nearly a third of senators to stay up all night talking about climate change.
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Forget bikes — get your lunch delivered by parachute
Jafflechutes will send your sandwich floating down from the sky. (And yes, sometimes it gets stuck in a tree.)
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Congress backpedals, restores cut-rate flood insurance for risky homes
Two years ago, Congress yanked subsidies for risky coastal flood-insurance policies. Lawmakers recently gave them back.
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Want to go back to the land? Read this farm confession about pig sperm first
A vet student witnesses the seedier side of pig husbandry.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson on “Cosmos,” how science got cool, and why he doesn’t debate deniers
The host of the stunning new Fox series wants you to understand how science works.
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Agencies Dodge Responsibility for Human Cost of Mountaintop-Removal Coal Mining
This week, we got some disappointing news – a judge ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers isn’t responsible for considering the health effects of coal pollution when it issues permits to fill valleys with rubble from mountaintop-removal coal mines. As Appalachian residents continue to suffer every year from well-documented health problems linked to mountaintop […]
