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The week in GIFs: Water, water everywhere
Every bathroom should come standard with cats and Oprah.
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You need to watch this video of Miley Cyrus narrated by David Attenborough
According to David Attenborough, Robin Thicke has “spectacular wattles” and twerking is “the most intimate act of all.”
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Bill would boost renewables to 25 percent by 2025, has no chance in hell of passing
Senators (and cousins!) Mark and Tom Udall have introduced a bill that would set a national renewable electricity standard. It's a good idea, sure to die in a bad Congress.
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Bangladesh’s biggest power plant will harm world’s biggest mangrove forest
Bangladesh is vulnerable to floods and cyclones, which makes its plans for a new coal-fired power plant next to a mangrove forest all the more troubling.
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Will someone please pay the farm bill?
Congress returns to the business of trying to agree on what to do about farm and food subsidies before the law turns into a pumpkin and the calendar flips back to 1940.
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West Coast Leaders Providing Trickle Up Leadership
Monday in San Francisco four elected officials boldly went where few politicians will these days – they talked openly and passionately about the urgent need to take action on climate change including putting a price on carbon. As California governor Jerry Brown noted, “To utter the term Global Warming is deviant and radical!” But utter […]
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Congress backtracking on law that aimed to reduce flood risks
America has been promoting the construction of homes in floodplains since the 1960s. And it plans to do so for another four years under a new bill.
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Forget GINKs — the new childfree movement is DILDOs
If you're a Double Income Large Dog Owners couple ... well, you know what that means.
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The Pacific Ocean is now warming 15 times faster than it used to
Another climate-denier talking point bites the dust: A new study confirms that oceans are absorbing more heat, helping to explain the slowdown in warming on land.
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Reese’s? Please. Learn how to make homemade peanut butter cups
Now that Halloween and its scourge of Fun Size treats is behind us, you won't have to feel guilty about keeping all of these peanut butter cups to yourself.
