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Climate Change Driving Weather off the Charts
By Janet Larsen Meteorologists are calling the typhoon that slammed into the Philippines with 195-mile-an-hour winds on November 8, 2013, the most powerful tropical storm to make landfall on record. Super Typhoon Haiyan had gusts reaching 235 miles per hour and a storm surge swelling as high as 20 feet, so the destruction it left […]
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Your solar panels are probably facing the wrong way
A new study says they should face west.
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German street artist is defacing fast food billboards with actual recipes
It's a good, simple message: Food doesn't have to be super-processed to be convenient.
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U.N. climate talks: Four countries behaving badly
Japan, Poland, Australia, and Canada are disgracing themselves at climate negotiations underway in Warsaw.
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Kauai plunges ahead with law targeting GMO farms
The local council overrides the mayor's veto, moving the island toward restrictions on genetically modified crops.
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What’s Wrong With Xcel’s Proposed Community Solar Program?
Fees and illegal caps, for starters. After the state’s solar energy law passed in 2013, Minnesota’s largest electric utility, Xcel Energy, was required to create a program to support the development of community solar energy. Since 3 in 4 people can’t have solar on their own rooftop (because they rent, or have a nice shade […]
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Deforestation makes for a super-depressing time-lapse video
Ready to see 888,000 square miles of trees vanish over 12 years? (Sob.)
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Entire Texan town evacuated after pipeline explosion
A Chevron pipeline exploded on Thursday, sending up huge flames and plumes of smoke and forcing some 700 people out of their homes.
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Zebras are finally taking their revenge on humans
The first volley: A zebra at the National Zoo bit a zoo staffer this morning, who had to be rushed to the hospital.
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Lab-grown meat cookbook includes meat paint and edible scarves
Scientists served the first in vitro burger in August. This cookbook wants you to think long and hard about the implications.
