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Volcanoes are giving us a breather from climate change
Someone, at some point, must have made the right sacrifice to the right volcano god.
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Subway cake fairy is either the best or worst commuter ever
Would someone giving away free homemade cake on the subway make you grin -- or make you call 911? (ANTHRAX!!!!1)
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L.A. and California lawmakers move to impose fracking moratoriums
Some leaders in Los Angeles and Sacramento are fed up with fracking, which sucks up lots of water even as the state is suffering through a drought.
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Carbon dioxide pollution just killed 10 million scallops
An oyster producer in British Columbia has lost three years' worth of bivalves -- the latest in a growing line of commercial shellfish collapses linked to ocean acidification.
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Are Electric Utilities Already Dead?
For the last six months, the energy news sphere (perhaps led by the Edison Electric Institute) has been rife with a discussion about the threat to the utility business from distributed energy like local solar, as their customers shift to getting their own power from nearby renewable resources. Reports and news stories – e.g. “Adapt […]
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These photos give a glimpse of the forbidden urban underground
Logan Hicks sneaks into abandoned subway tunnels so you don’t have to.
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American aqueduct: The great California water saga
A $25 billion plan, a small town, and a half-century of wrangling over the most important resource in California.
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Rice is the new cocaine for European drug dealers
Drug dealers are hanging up their dime bags and moving into the food-counterfeiting game.
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GMO, yeah? 5 surprises from an otherwise boring look at genetically modified crops
We dig into the USDA’s deep-dive report on GMO crops and unearth five things worth paying attention to.
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Meet Ross Bhappu, the money behind coal export proposals on the Columbia River
The coal industry’s efforts to export huge amounts of taxpayer-owned coal from Montana and Wyoming to Asia has generated unprecedented opposition in the Pacific Northwest – tens of thousands of people have rallied, attended public hearings, and called on their elected officials to oppose coal export terminals that would disrupt and pollute communities and pose […]
