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Beijing air pollution goes off the charts as electricity use climbs
The thick yellow air over China's capital city bodes poorly for life in its still-hot economy.
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Finally your stupid body is good for something: Powering a watch
Scientists have come up with a way to make you useful. They can harness your body heat to power devices. No, you're not going to get paid.
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Flesh choice: A meat lover’s guide to giving it up
Good for you? Check. Good for the planet? Check. But how to keep from falling off the meat wagon? Our carnivorous author commences an experiment in provisional vegetarianism.
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Ask Umbra: Can I have a kid and be car-free?
A reader wonders if she is depriving her child of life’s pleasures by choosing not to drive. Fortunately, Umbra wasn’t Bjorn yesterday.
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Top Australian climate scientist: Heat wave ‘encroaching on entirely new territory’
Tim Flannery, Australia's top climate commissioner, says current record-breaking harsh weather is a sign of things to come.
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Pinnacles in California named as 59th national park
But under Obama, far, far less land has been protected than under other recent presidents -- even George W. Bush.
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German neo-Nazis take to organic farming
Environmentalism is not necessarily Green.
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Climate change set to make America hotter, drier, and more disaster-prone
The National Climate Assessment, released in draft form on Friday, provides the fullest picture to date of the real-time effects of climate change on U.S. life.
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Fixing a broken gas tax could fix broken roads
Gas tax income is falling as cars get more efficient. Can drivers stand to be taxed per mile driven instead?
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Shell gets massive, involuntary aid package from Alaska, U.S. Coast Guard, and you
Here's how many resources the state and Coast Guard used to help rescue the Kulluk -- and how they'll try to get repaid.
