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Ranchers don’t want Joan Jett on a Macy’s float because she’s a vegetarian
Jett's got a bad reputation because of supporting PETA, but it's not like "Crimson and Clover" is vegetarian propoganda.
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Tech support: Can we wire our cities to prevent ecological collapse?
In his new book, “Smart Cities,” Anthony Townsend envisions a new techno-utopia. He’s forgotten one small detail: people.
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Looks like the Arctic has been heating up even faster than we thought
It's not easy to measure Arctic temperatures, and new research suggests that recent efforts have been underestimating the rate at which the region is warming.
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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.
