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Climate skeptic could run Down Under
In a country lashed by climate change, it's a surprise that Australia's next prime minister might stomp out the country's efforts to fight and adapt to global warming.
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Obama talks green with California donors, says environmental stuff is tough
Obama talks to wealthy donors about how environmental causes are a tough sell, but avoids talking directly about the Keystone XL Pipeline.
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Spoof Kickstarter celebrates the ‘New Canada’ with oil-filled souvenirs
LaMar DiCuois' fictional Kickstarter campaign will fund the development of oil-filled snow globes featuring Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his cronies.
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This year, amber waves of grain to be replaced by CORN
American farmers are set to plant more acres of corn than at any time since 1936. Most of it will be end up in candy and gas tanks.
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Crude awakening: Exxon’s Arkansas oil spill ain’t pretty [SLIDESHOW]
ExxonMobil assures us that EVERYTHING IS COMPLETELY COPACETIC in Mayflower, Ark., where a ruptured pipeline blew tar-sands oil all over residents' yards and into streets, streams, and a nearby lake. Mmm hmm ...
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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 […]
