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Another urgent need for infrastructure spending: Levees
Many of the nation's levees are in bad shape, says the Army Corps of Engineers. But Republicans don't like to fund disaster prevention.
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Watch seriously endangered baby birds take their first steps
Spoon-billed sandpipers are super-adorable, and there are only 100 breeding pairs left in the wild.
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How are we doing on energy efficiency?
Utility spending on energy-efficiency programs is poised to double by 2025, assuming no policy changes. That's not nearly enough.
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This robot can turn your plastic garbage into raw material for 3D printers
A cute new machine recycles plastic into filament for 3D printers. You should get one. When they actually are available, which will happen, uh, soon.
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Washington’s brand-new governor, Jay Inslee, wastes no time promoting clean energy
Inslee's first act as governor was to write the head of a clean energy company and invite that company to move to Washington state.
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EPA drops methane inquiry to keep oil company happy
The EPA had been investigating a case of water contamination that might have come from fracking -- until the fracking company complained.
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You can see North Dakota’s oil fracking fields from space
What a handy signal to alien races that they should have nothing to do with us.
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Did Google kill a donkey in Botswana?
It looks … dead. In fact, it looks … like it got RUN OVER BY THE STREET VIEW CAR.
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Global Grain Stocks Drop Dangerously Low as 2012 Consumption Exceeded Production
By Janet Larsen The world produced 2,241 million tons of grain in 2012, down 75 million tons or 3 percent from the 2011 record harvest. The drop was largely because of droughts that devastated several major crops—namely corn in the United States (the world’s largest crop) and wheat in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Australia. Each […]
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Proposed wind farm gets the OK to kill bald eagles, which will definitely not backfire
There's no way that the government giving approval to kill bald eagles would be used against the wind industry, right?
