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In win for fish, oil companies allowed to abandon old rigs
Offshore drilling rigs serve as artificial reefs, creating habitat for fish, so fisherman and enviros pushed for rule changes that would let some rigs be left in place.
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These time-lapse videos of volcanoes will blow your mind a little
These videos will make you wish you were a sacrificial virgin just so you could get a closer look.
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U.S. and World Bank might stop financing dirty coal plants
President Obama says the U.S. should stop funding coal power plants abroad, and the World Bank is moving in the same direction.
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Twin sea otters floating around on their mom are the cutest, saddest thing you’ll see today
If you're a twin baby sea otter, you're really rare, really cute -- and really in danger.
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The biggest oversight in Obama’s climate plan is a doozy
It's coal! Obama plans to regulate carbon emissions from coal plants, but he's doing nothing to stop coal leasing on public lands or coal exports through the Northwest to China.
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Stop maligning the Flat Earth Society by saying it doesn’t believe in climate change
I hereby call this meeting of the Flat Earth Society to order. People, we have a problem on our hands ...
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How hard is it to integrate renewables into the grid?
In January, EEI said [PDF] that the incentives paid to renewable energy are going to jeopardize grid reliability and electricity costs. Many enviros have responded that this represents nothing more than the utility industry’s naked self interest. Who’s right? I’d suggest neither. The true problem with the EEI report, as I pointed out here, is […]
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This entire Buddhist temple complex is made from recycled beer bottles
If you start collecting Heineken and Chang beer bottles in 1984, you end up with a lot of bottles. Enough to build a complex of 20 buildings.
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Americans are more worried about North Korean nukes than climate change
A survey found that Americans are less likely than other people around the world to be concerned about global warming. But we do fret about Islamic terrorists, Iran, and North Korea.
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Dissolvable paper helmet is probably better than nothing
The Paper Pulp Helmet is a cheap, water-resistant shell of recycled newspaper that can be broken back down into paper pulp and reformed again and again.
