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BP officially quits the solar business
So much for the oil giant's "Beyond Petroleum" branding and sunburst logo. Meanwhile, Chinese solar companies are having troubles of their own.
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Man arrested for flying with 200 pounds of caterpillars
Apparently the man intended to eat them. That's a lot of caterpillar stroganoff.
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King Coal’s tragic puppet show, Part 2 – Coal export is wrong
…originally published at GRIP…. When last we left our intrepid heroes, the great Northwest had woken up to find itself cast in the wrong movie, sort of like Owen Wilson playing Richard Nixon (see Part 1). If we’re disoriented, it’s no wonder – what, with all the crap flying around trying to convince us that […]
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A bigger, badder climate ‘hockey stick’
New research takes the deepest dive ever into historic climate records -- and comes up still blaming humans for recent warming.
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Trippy-looking thermal photos show penguins are even colder than the surrounding air
Thermal imaging shows that penguins' feathers are even colder than the sub-zero air they live in. It also makes them look super '80s radical.
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Bacon is really bad for you
Eating too much processed meat makes you more likely to be killed by a heart attack or cancer, a new study finds.
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Pet-loving architects in the Dominican Republic build a beautiful animal shelter out of recycled materials
Animal lovers in the Dominican Republic have banded together to create a beautiful recycled shelter for some abandoned dogs and cats.
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You don’t need nature, you just need the smell of it
An immunologist in Japan named Qing Li has been working for years to show that you can get a bunch of the benefits of nature without actually going there.
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Watch a magical LED light installation on the San Francisco Bay Bridge
San Francisco has unveiled the Bay Lights project, in which the bridge is illuminated with 25,000 twinkling LEDs. In two years, no pattern will be repeated, but we have a few here for you.
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Senator feels bad for BP, wants it to bid on new Gulf drilling leases
Sen. Mary Landrieu says she has "had enough" of the Obama administration persecuting BP and the whole oil and gas industry.
