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America’s oil imports to hit 25-year low by 2014
Thanks to our domestic oil boom, "petroleum engineer" has become one of the hottest jobs in the country.
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This map of the London Tube is also a working radio
It's not a coincidence that this is possible. The guy who designed the original tube map had studied electronics engineering and purposely drew the map in the mode of a circuit board.
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It’s official: 2012 was the warmest year on record for the U.S.
Last year was a full degree warmer than the next-warmest year of 1998.
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Rupert Murdoch still stupid about climate, now thinks pollution is good for trees
Rupert Murdoch gets his climate change info from a dickhead and then tweets it like it's true.
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This is what it looks like to get caught in a dolphin stampede
Are they having a race? Did they see a shark? Are they running away from Vogons?
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Interior pledges ‘high-level review’ of Shell’s Arctic farce
Rest assured, though: the government insists that it is committed to drilling in the Arctic.
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Solar snowboard charges your phone with power collected on the slopes
The dudes at Signal Snowboard have made a snowboard equipped with solar panels that can actually charge your phone.
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Who will serve on Obama’s second-term green team?
Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire could head up EPA. L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa could become transportation secretary. Who else? Find out.
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Starving the cities to feed the suburbs
A new report finds that of the $450 billion the federal government spends on real estate each year, the lion’s share subsidizes suburban growth -- at the expense of both cities and the planet.
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New food-safety rules are not making us feel all that nauseated
Both food-safety advocates and the food industry seem to like the rules aimed at preventing food-borne illness. Too bad they're so slow in coming.
