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This website lets you tell everyone that all you want for Christmas is NO MORE STUFF
We like getting presents, though! Here are some ideas.
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NYC hurricane expert: “Sandy wasn’t the Big One”
Professor Nicholas K. Coch spent decades warning officials that a hurricane could slam into New York City. Superstorm Sandy proved him right -- but it could have been much worse, he says.
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Human teenager discovers baby dinosaur
Baby dinosaurs are bigger than most humans, though.
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Clean-water laws: The second front in the war on greenhouse gases
A new lawsuit aiming to sharpen the Clean Water Act's acidification rules might be a stretch -- but it's better than nothing.
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Fracking won’t fix the climate
You may have heard that fracking is reducing carbon emissions because natural gas is cleaner than coal. But there's a big hole in that argument.
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Bird poop coffee is the new trend in poop coffee
Money buys a lot of things, including the willingness of workers to hunt through bird poop.
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Divestment: Making colleges do the right thing with their cash since before you were born
Divestment -- the effort to get large institutions to sell their fossil-fuel investments -- didn't come out of nowhere. Its long history began with the anti-apartheid movement.
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Turbine tourism: Bus tours of a wind-energy park are a big hit
In Michigan, tourists are lining up for wind-energy tours that let you go right up and touch a turbine.
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Party like it’s 1994! America’s CO2 emissions hit 18-year low
In 2012, energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. fell to 1994 levels.
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6 facts about cereal’s wild past
Did you know the inventor of Grape Nuts was originally a suspenders salesperson? Or that Dr. Kellogg of Kellogg's offered "machine-powered enemas"? YEAH.
