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Cattle ranchers lose bid to shoot bison with biobullets
Ranchers want wild bison in Yellowstone inoculated against a cattle disease, but their proposal for shooting vaccine into the beasts with air guns was rejected.
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Leaping blizzards: Global warming produces bigger snowfalls
Global warming may make more intense blizzards, but deniers won't take snow for an answer.
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These beautiful videos show the flight paths of birds as drawings in the sky
It's like that one part in Donnie Darko, except there's no time travel and no incipient mental breakdowns.
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Beijing bans new power plants to help clear the air
The famously polluted city will also ban new steel and cement factories and oil refineries, and will try to control the number of cars on its roads.
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Texans want frackers to stop causing earthquakes
Rattled residents are calling for a ban on injecting fracking wastewater underground. Texas regulators don't seem very receptive.
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Tough love: Can a local leader save the EPA’s troubled southeast region?
A former Mississippi mayor takes the helm of an office that has long been at odds with environmental justice leaders. She doesn't have much green cred, but that may be just as well.
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Leave a piano on the street in Melbourne, get a delightful cover of Pharrell’s “Happy”
The news lately hasn’t been great, but this should make you feel better about the world.
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Last year was the fourth hottest on record, or maybe the seventh
Either way, it was really hot. In fact, 2013 was the 37th year in a row of above-average global temperatures, according to NOAA.
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Watch the earth get hotter and hotter in NASA’s new animation
The video shows temperature anomalies -- not how warm or cold the Earth was, but how unusually warm or cold it was, compared to a baseline.
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Forget Google — build your own Nest smart thermostat for $70
Here's what you'll need for a DIY version of the game-changing, Google-acquired thermostat.
