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Weird wintry weather and the climate-change link
It's warm on the coasts and cold and snowy in between. And some kind of hellish weirdness in the Texas Panhandle.
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A Chinese group has been selling fox and rat meat as mutton
This isn't the only group selling sketchy meat in China: Police say they've arrested 904 people for similar offenses.
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More Than One Million Actions for Climate and Clean Energy in 100 Days
This week marked six months since Superstorm Sandy, and it was also the end of our 100 Days of Action for Climate and Clean Energy, which we kicked off when President Obama began his second term. In those 100 days, more than one million Americans from across the country attended large-scale rallies and local events, […]
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This is what happens when you don’t double-check your GPS
You know cars can't climb stairs. We know cars can't climb stairs. But this driver, and more importantly his GPS, did not seem to know that cars can't climb stairs.
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Flower power: Fighting the Man with guerrilla gardens
Grist’s green-living pioneer sets out like a modern-day, anarchist Janie Appleseed, lobbing "seed bombs" in an effort to pretty up her city.
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Court says N.Y. town can outlaw fracking
Dryden and more than 50 other municipalities want to ban fracking in case New York's state moratorium is lifted. An appeals court said that's just fine.
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This nuclear plant tried to fix a leak with plastic, tape, and broomsticks
That's fine if you're a college kid with a leaky pipe in a house that you pay $200 a month for to a landlord who lives in the Bahamas. But this is a nuclear power plant!
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Watch a solar plane fly across America
The current leg of its trip will take the plane from California to Phoenix, but Solar Impulse is in it for the long haul, crossing the entire country in the next few weeks.
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Tourists are making stingrays fat, mean, and insomniac
Stingrays bring huge amounts of tourism money into the Cayman Islands. And what do they get in return? A crappy diet and a messed-up sleep schedule.
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What if we never run out of oil?
New technology and a little-known energy source suggest that fossil fuels may not be finite. This would be a miracle -- and a nightmare.
