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Three reasons why Germany is kicking our arsch on solar
Most Germans want a quick transition to decentralized renewable energy.
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Helsinki’s personalized bus service is like Uber for public transit
Helsinki's Kutsuplus lets you select your pick-up and drop-off locations and times, then sends out a bus to take you exactly where you need to go.
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Can this air pollution vacuum cleaner fix Beijing’s smog?
What if we could just clean up polluted air by vacuuming it? A Dutch designer aims to find out.
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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.
