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Narwhal-horn smuggling ring busted in Maine
Narwhals, the unicorns of the sea, are super hard to catch. But that didn't stop these guys from selling 150 of their horns.
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App, crackle, pop: Junk food marketers target your kids online
According to the Federal Trade Commission, Big Food is working to reach kids online and through social media platforms.
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Ask Umbra: Eat a baby orange, kill a baby seal?
A reader wonders what happens to the mesh bags clementines come in. Umbra says those darling little oranges can make a mess in the caverns, in the canyons, and even the foaming brine.
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Could Chuck Hagel, defense secretary nominee, turn out to be a climate hawk?
Hagel has long been confused about climate change ... and yet concerned about it too, particularly as a national security issue.
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Obama vs. physics: Why climate change won’t wait for the president
Climate change is not a fight, like abortion or gay marriage, between conflicting groups with conflicting opinions. It's a fight between human beings and physics.
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How one small sentence kicked up a storm of climate controversy
In 1996, 12 words in an international climate report set off a firestorm. The man responsible for that sentence, Benjamin Santer, says things have never been the same.
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Promised Land, a movie review
Promised Land, the new movie starring Matt Damon, is a movie in part about fracking, the new and extremely problematic way of getting natural gas out of shale rock far below the earth’s surface. It’s a very good movie, with good acting, particularly by Damon in a very different role than, for example, his Jason […]
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League of Women Voters ad asks Obama for climate action
Here's hoping the president reads the newspaper while on vacation.
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The bizarre and fascinating history of lead in gasoline
The story of how lead got in gasoline -- and stayed there for decades -- is endlessly fascinating.
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The next space shuttle could be made out of trash
Researchers at NASA's Ames Research Center have devised a trash compactor that turns waste into 8-inch radiation-shielding tiles.
