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BMW’s i3 electric car earns gushing praise
The lightweight BMW i3, designed for urban living, will sell for $42,350 before a federal EV rebate of $7,500. Critics love it.
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Company to start slaughtering horses next week, despite arson and lawsuit
The Valley Meat Co. in New Mexico plans to begin killing horses for meat, unswayed by a legal challenge and an apparent arson attack.
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Bad news, coal industry: Proposed export terminal is in for a tough review
A planned coal export terminal in Washington state will have to undergo a rigorous study that will consider climate impacts and other potential environmental problems.
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3D-printed shells turn hermit crabs into beautiful walking cities
Aki Inomata's gorgeous, crystalline buildings and skylines are a lot better than that painted shell you bought in the beach shop.
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You get my drift? Pesticides cause big problems when they go where they’re not wanted
Too many pesticide-spraying crop dusters are accidentally missing their targets, killing neighbors' crops and making people sick.
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$100 million worth of natural gas goes up in flames every month in North Dakota
Drillers in the state don't have an easy way to get their natural gas to market, so nearly a third of it is being flared off, i.e. totally wasted.
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World Solar Power Topped 100,000 Megawatts in 2012
By J. Matthew Roney The world installed 31,100 megawatts of solar photovoltaics (PV) in 2012—an all-time annual high that pushed global PV capacity above 100,000 megawatts. There is now enough PV operating to meet the household electricity needs of nearly 70 million people at the European level of use. While PV production has become increasingly […]
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Plastic bags printed with dildos guarantee you’ll never forget your reusable ones again
Plastic might be dangerous to the planet, but we know what people are really motivated by: social embarrassment.
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Here’s what it would look like if L.A.’s freeways magically turned into subways
Peter Dunn tries to design maps "that show places a little differently."
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We are consigning hundreds of coastal cities to destruction. Who cares?
New research shows that sea-level "lock in" -- the amount of sea-level rise we are making inevitable through carbon emissions -- is growing rapidly. Do we, should we, care about what will happen so far in the future?
