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Scientists are studying bees by turning them into cyborgs
They're going to attach tiny little sensors (less than 0.1 inches wide) to the bees, let them fly around, and track how they move.
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Who Owns West Virginia’s Water? A Cautionary Tale
It took a few days after a state of emergency was declared across nine West Virginia counties and one-sixth of the state’s population was told not to drink or bathe using their tap water for the national news media to discover there is a story of national importance occurring in the political backwaters of Appalachia. […]
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Older trees best at fighting climate change
It has long been thought that young trees are better than old ones at absorbing CO2. A new study suggests the opposite.
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Climate change is waking up the bears and they want to eat us
Not only are the bears awake, but one wildlife official says they "see [humans] as a source of food.” RUN!
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Why exploding trains are the new Keystone XL
With pipeline projects stalling, more crude is riding the rails. Also, spilling. And blowing up. That's making the Oil Express a target for protest.
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The director of “The Cove” is back with a new eco-thriller
Louie Psihoyos promises his new documentary about extinction is a real-life Ocean's 11.
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Bigmouth strikes again: Morrissey compares meat-eaters to pedophiles
Morrissey, NO! You're making all vegetarians look like wackos!
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Ask Umbra: Why must we “store” renewable energy? Can’t we just use it?
A reader wonders why it’s so hard to work wind and solar power into the grid. Umbra gets a real charge out of the question.
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Dumb cuts and dumber riders: The green take on the new federal budget
The bill is only marginally better on environmental spending than the sequester, and it includes riders that undermine environmental regulation.
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Zombie carbon trading’s latest resurrection
[Because the following is long, it is also available in pdf format at http://www.nohairshirts.com/zomb.pdf ] Even as London carbon trading desks shut down[1] in response to the crumbling European Trading System (ETS) , the zombie concept of carbon trading spreads to China. Because Robin Hahnel’s carbon trading defenses[2] offer the best pro-carbon market arguments to […]
