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Conservative hostility to science predates climate science
The debate over whether climate scientists should stray into advocacy is largely moot. No amount of "objectivity" is going to diminish conservatives' decades-long hostility toward science.
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Watch this guy bathe in 312 cans of Pepsi
Follow with your French fry body butter!
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White House calls for more grid spending as climate changes
The nation's power grid is increasingly vulnerable to severe weather. The Obama administration is calling for upgrades but not saying where the funding should come from.
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A Texan tragedy: Ample oil, no water
The fracking boom in Texas sucks away precious water from beneath the ground, leaving cattle dead, farms bone-dry, and people thirsty.
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Relax, there’s a massive animal sperm bank
With its “rare and vintage samples,” the National Animal Germplasm Program is basically the hipster record store of animal jizz.
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Carbon offsets plan stirs up controversy in California
Californian companies will soon be able to buy carbon offsets to fulfill up to 8 percent of their required greenhouse gas reductions.
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Apartments built inside wind turbines make living in the middle of the ocean seem even cooler
Two architects working in a Bulgarian studio imagined where offshore turbine workers might live.
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A Tea Party leader explains why she’s teaming up with the Sierra Club to push for solar power
Georgia will soon be producing a lot more solar energy because of an unusual coalition. Now it has a name: the Green Tea Coalition.
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Human family justifies its existence by saving a dolphin
International Dolphin Watch, for what it's worth, doesn't recommend that you move a stranded dolphin.
