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No kidding: “Reproductive success” might mean not reproducing
Choosing to be childfree is neither unnatural nor selfish. We're already overutilizing the resources that today's children and their children will need to survive.
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Don’t for a second imagine we’re heading for an era of renewable energy
Investment in unconventional fossil fuels is expected to outpace spending on renewables by a ratio of at least 3-to-1 in the decades ahead.
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Sometimes a hybrid is greener than an electric car
Most times, actually. If you live in a state with lots of coal power, then charging your car with that power is not so climate-friendly.
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Climate set to change “orders of magnitude” faster than at any other time in the past 65 million years
The pace of global warming is going to make it difficult if not impossible for species to find appropriate habitats.
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World’s best cop saves nearly 100 baby sea turtles
We don't want to hear anything negative about the police for at least five minutes.
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Prepare yourself for the sun’s magnetic field to flip polarity
It won't really affect us at all -- unless we can use apocalypse panic to convince science deniers to flee to remote areas.
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Riding lessons for U.S. cities from one of Europe’s bike capitals
The key to convincing Americans to swap out the car for a bike? Make bicycling boring -- and ensure that they won’t end up as road pizza.
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Now you can make alcoholic beverages out of used coffee grounds
Get those coffee grounds the hell out of the compost pile, because science has worked out how to transform them into booze.
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Can a giant ice wall stop Fukushima radiation from leaking into the sea?
Some 300 tons of radioactive water are pouring from the plant into the Pacific every day, so TEPCO wants to build a mile-long underground ice wall to stop the leakage.
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The tiniest of tiny houses began its life as a dumpster
A dumpster makes perfect sense as housing in NYC.
