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James Hansen says natural gas is worse than nuclear
If forced to choose between a world powered by natural gas or nuclear, which would you choose? If you chose natural gas, you just hypothetically killed a bunch of people.
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Scientists can 3D print lifelike tissue using only oil and water
You need only a few simple ingredients to make something amazing.
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Is a ‘Game of Thrones’ winter coming?
Last year's March heat wave and this year's endless freeze could be signs, climate scientists say, of a stark new reality: longer, and more unpredictable, winters and summers.
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Where not to pee in NYC: Interactive map shows you where you’ll get busted
Gothamist made a map that shows where in New York people are peeing and getting arrested for it. What will they think of next? More public toilets?
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Building Natural Carbon: Five Policy Principles
Driven by the fossil-fueled industrialization of Asia, carbon dioxide levels hit 395 parts per million in 2012, the highest level in four or five million years. That was an era when sea levels were around 80 feet higher and temperatures up to 10° Fahrenheit hotter. If we sustain those CO2 levels, or go higher as […]
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A big battle over a tiny door in a San Francisco tree
There's a tiny door in a tree in San Fran's Golden Gate Park. People like it. Officials don't. Who will win?
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Nevada utility: Screw this, coal is more trouble than it’s worth
NV Energy has been shamed and embarrassed by the Reid Gardner coal plant one too many times. Now the utility has decided to get out of the coal game entirely.
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ExxonMobil spills chemicals in Louisiana while cleaning spilled oil in Arkansas
ExxonMobil won't say precisely what chemicals it spilled in Louisiana -- maybe because it's too busy keeping journalists away from another oil-oopsie in Arkansas.
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China is building buses so enormous that cars can just drive underneath them
The Chinese have invented a bus you can drive under. Let's get some of them. Now.
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Paris will harvest energy from its marathon runners
On Sunday, 40,000 runners will expend A LOT of energy running all 26 miles of the Paris marathon. But for approximately 0.06 percent of the course, not all of that energy will go to waste.
