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Tough spot for farmers: Adapting to change you can’t believe in
The Agriculture Department will help farmers deal with a warmer climate, whether they accept its reality or not.
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California’s San Onofre nuclear plant gets final death blow
Southern California Edison is officially giving up on the perpetually troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant. Anti-nuke activists are psyched.
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Designer turns city fixtures into instant playgrounds
Admit it. You'd have a hard time staying in a bad mood with an invention that turns a light pole into an insta-swing.
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She’s got the Power: What does Obama’s U.N. ambassador pick think about climate?
Samantha Power hasn't said much on climate change.
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The “carbon negative” building block is mostly made from recycled ingredients
Which means that as long as you avoid adding glass, metal, drywall, insulation, or humans, you could have a completely carbon-neutral building!
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France looks at America, says non to fracking
The French energy minister wants to keep her country's fracking ban in place. Just look at what a mess fracking has made in America, she says.
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Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris partied at Sean Parker’s eco-wrecking wedding
A tech billionaire trampled a redwood forest for his fantasy wedding, and two of California's most senior elected officials were at the obnoxious bash.
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Coke bottle made of ice helps you water down your corn syrup, ponder mortality
Supposedly Coke's ice bottle is eco-friendly, because by the time it melts, you’re left with nothing but a sugar high and a dumb red Coca-Cola band to remind you of global branding’s insidious nature.
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This 13-by-13 cube of metal used to be an amusement park
"Creating [it] was undoubtedly the most violent process I’ve ever embarked upon," the artist said.
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Sean Parker defends multimillion-dollar wedding
A letter from Sean Parker to the Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal questions the California Coastal Commission's report of his expensive, damaging wedding.