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Bill aims to tackle climate-caused health problems
Legislation in Congress tries to get the U.S. ready for an onslaught of climate-related maladies. It won't pass, but it's a nice effort.
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This egg needs to be guarded 24 hours a day, because British egg collectors are CRAZY
Conservationists have been trying to bring common cranes back to Britain, and now one pair has laid an egg.
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Manhattan to see more killer heat waves
Climate change is expected to boost the number of deaths in New York City's most densely populated borough, a new study finds.
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Prague’s “love subway” will let single people find romance while they commute
It'll basically be like Amtrak's quiet car, except instead of sitting in silence, everyone will be scanning the car like they would a bar on a Saturday night.
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More than 100,000 electric vehicles now on the roads in U.S.
Sales of the Nissan Leaf and Tesla Model S helped the industry reach this milestone. Meanwhile, Tesla plans to repay a government loan nine years early.
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Staggering time-lapse footage of the Oklahoma tornado
Watch Monday's deadly tornado go from a neat, eerie-looking funnel to a giant mess of wind and destruction.
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Utilities for dummies: How they work and why that needs to change
Utilities are boring and opaque, but central to any clean-energy future. So it's time to demystify them. Here's a plainspoken intro to how they work, and why.
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“Miracle garden” brings life, and food, to the urban wasteland
For 25 years, a devoted group of residents has tended a garden in a former dumping ground in East Baltimore. Its chief caretaker calls it "God's little acre."
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Could the Monsanto Protection Act get repealed?
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) is trying to roll back a provision that allows GMO crops to be planted even before they've been OK'd by the USDA.
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Nation’s biggest uranium mine planned in New Mexico
Companies from Japan and Canada want to build the mine on land held sacred by Native Americans, and the U.S. Forest Service may just say OK.
