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13 major clean energy breakthroughs of 2013
The rapidly improving technology, declining costs, and increasing accessibility of clean energy is the true bright spot in the march toward a zero-carbon future.
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Thanks to Congress, 2014 will bring uncertainty for the wind industry
The wind PTC has allowed the industry to grow and reduce costs, but now it is expiring. There hasn't been a big fight to extend it into next year. Why?
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Powder River Basin: Coal on the move
No other coal deposit on the planet is so big, so close to the surface, and so cheap to mine as the rich seams in eastern Wyoming and Southern Montana. That's made the Powder River Basin the locus of a national debate on how we develop our fossil fuel reserves.
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The top 13 green stories of 2013: The good, the bad, and the muddled
The environmental news this year was full of ups and downs, twists and turns, and deeply conflicted protagonists.
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The first high-res HD video of Earth from space is amazing and kind of unnerving
Skybox Imaging, which took the video, assures us all that the resolution isn't high enough for them to watch you get undressed.
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Kids are now getting school lunch report cards
Weekly tattling might encourage kids to make healthier choices.
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When climate change sets in, these will be the only snowmen we have left
They're not made out of snow.
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20 GMO questions: Animal, vegetable, controversy?
Here's a bullet-point summation of what Nathanael Johnson learned about GMOs in 2013.
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Here’s where to go if you want to find a deformed frog
It took a decade, but now scientists have identified three spots that are most likely to yield freak frogs.
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Meet the senator from ExxonMobil who’s taking over the Energy Committee
Mary Landrieu, Democrat from Louisiana, is poised to become chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, where she'll push her pro-oil agenda.
