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Researchers kill oldest living animal to verify it’s the oldest living animal
It's like an O. Henry story, but with bivalves.
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Could Carl Sagan have defeated climate denial?
Celebrating the great science communicator ... while being realistic about how much things have changed since the days of the Cosmos series.
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Denial dries up: Americans finally seeing the light on climate change
In red states as well as blue, a majority of Americans believe climate change is happening and the government should do something about it, according to a decade's worth of polling results.
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Look who’s eating your plastic now: A whole unprecedented ecosystem
We already had the biosphere and the atmosphere, but now we get the plastisphere, too.
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Why the government now cares what you spend on gas
Affordable housing isn't all that affordable without low-cost transportation. The feds are starting to recognize this.
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Let’s all fantasize about how awesome a national hyperloop network would be
It is really fun to daydream about traveling from place to place really, really, really fast.
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The basement of this vacant house is now an urban greenhouse
The first crop will be shiitake mushrooms.
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There’s another dolphin trapped in a Brooklyn waterway
Dolphins just can't stay out of Brooklyn. This one's stuck in a creek in Coney Island.
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Country’s Largest Public Power Provider Takes Next Major Step to Move Beyond Coal
Today the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) announced it will retire coal boilers at three of its coal plants in Alabama and Kentucky. Retiring these coal boilers means less pollution in the air and water in the southeast U.S. According to the Clean Air Task Force, the Colbert coal plant in Alabama alone contributed to 940 […]
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Facebook’s new data center will run on 100 percent wind energy
What does that actually mean?
