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Mummies found around the world all had heart disease
Apparently, it doesn't matter what you eat; you're going to end up as a mummy with atherosclerosis. Assuming you can find someone to mummify you. Otherwise you'll just have atherosclerosis.
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Is the next Fukushima in your backyard?
Two years after Fukushima, some U.S. nuclear power plants are still having meltdown scares.
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Is ‘Twilight’ influencing our environmental imagination?
Wonder what’s shaping our warped relationship with the natural world? Look no further than popular literature, says ecocritic George Handley.
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Smart people say food prices are falling — depends what you mean by ‘food’
Some foods are getting cheaper, but is that really such great news for the hungry poor?
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Dozens get sick after dining at world’s best restaurant
At least 63 people paid handsomely for the privilege of contracting gastroenteritis at acclaimed Danish restaurant Noma.
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Big military guy more scared of climate change than enemy guns
Navy Admiral Samuel J. Locklear says global warming “is probably the most likely thing ... that will cripple the security environment."
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Community-Owned Transmission?
The enormous growth in local renewable energy is decentralizing the electricity system, often supplanting energy from centralized power plants. But not all renewable energy is built locally, even in a country like Germany with massive local ownership of its renewable energy systems. The Germans are undergoing significant upgrades to their electricity grid as they push […]
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Baby animals are now learning to surf, because they know something we don’t
There is literally no explanation for this that doesn't involve some kind of instinctual understanding of impending sea-level rise.
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Insurance companies on climate change: ‘What climate change?’
Many insurance firms are clueless when it comes to climate change. Allstate and Travelers question its very existence.
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Ending the stupid technology innovation vs. deployment fight once and for all
Should we develop new clean energy technology or deploy the tech we already have? Both, obviously. So why are we still arguing about it?
