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This hot 37-year-old kite-surfed from France to Ireland
If Bruno Sroka can kite-surf for more than 16 hours straight, so can you! Right?
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Scientists are building electronics that dissolve when you’re done with them
The problem with building dissolving technology, of course, is making sure it doesn't dissolve while you're still using it.
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One more reason to be terrified by ticks
New research has confirmed that a new virus -- the Heartland virus, which infected two Missouri farmers in 2009 -- is carried by ticks.
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Less than 1 percent of tar-sands environmental infractions penalized
A new report out today finds that enforcement of environmental infractions by companies in the Alberta oil sands are 17 times lower than similar infractions reported to the United State’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The report [PDF], authored by the environmental nonprofit Global Forest Watch, looked at more than 15 years of data on recorded environmental mishaps by oil […]
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ExxonMobil subsidiary, with arm twisted behind back, agrees to treat fracking wastewater
XTO Energy will spend $20 million to treat wastewater from its fracking operations in Pennsylvania and West Virginia after it was prosecuted for Clean Water Act violations.
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Dolphins have names
But until they figure out how to name their babies Click-click-click the XIX, we're not impressed.
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Protecting Our Water from Coal Pollution
Think about this: Have you spent a day out on the water this summer? Swimming? Fishing? Boating? Well believe it or not, for decades, power plants have been allowed to dump toxic pollution into our nation’s waterways, with almost no limits. Coal plants have become by far the largest source of toxic water pollution in […]
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Solar and wind surge, but dirty energy still dominates, as this nifty chart shows
Solar energy production in the U.S. jumped by 49 percent last year, and wind energy by 16 percent, but we still have a long way to go.
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Bumblebee high-fives British guy in strange yet charming video
One more thing to miss if colony collapse disorder keeps killing all the bees: INSECT HIGH-FIVES.
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Climate change is making poison ivy go OUT OF CONTROL
"Gee, poison ivy grows too slowly, and its leaves are way too small!" -- NO ONE EVER.
