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Teeny rescued Brooklyn owl is totally fine, everyone!
"Owl Jolson" has been nursed back to health and released into the wild.
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The Fierce Urgency of Now
“We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now…. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: ’Too late’.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The first public action of any kind, on any issue, after the November 6 election was on the issue of the climate; specifically, the Keystone […]
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Coming soon to a horror movie near you: Antarctica is being invaded by king crabs
Warmer water on the seafloor has allowed king crabs to swarm into a previously inaccessible ecosystem.
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Ohio fights a multi-front war against blight
State and city officials are going after blighted properties and empowering citizens to clean up their own neighborhoods, too.
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Lizard named after Obama was wiped out by climate change
They named a lizard after POTUS 44. It is too short to play basketball, and too extinct to spend the next four years telling John Boehner to go fuck himself.
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Republicans are having lots of fun objecting to Sandy relief funding
Though some people are still without power on Long Island, Republicans still think it's a good time to try to score a political point.
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Tech, food experts join forces to hack the meat industry
The small-but-growing alternative meat industry got a needed boost this week from a group of foodies and software programmers at the first meat hackathon.
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Department of Energy announces millions in grants to offshore wind projects
Which will no doubt prompt some opposition from conservatives.
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World Nuclear Electricity Generation Down 5 Percent Since 2006
By J. Matthew Roney World nuclear electricity-generating capacity has been essentially flat since 2007 and is likely to fall as plants retire faster than new ones are built. In fact, the actual electricity generated at nuclear power plants fell 5 percent between 2006 and 2011. In 2011, following Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, 13 nuclear […]
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Massive Crowds Turning Out to Oppose Coal Exports
“It’s not our job in the Northwest to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a dying fossil fuel industry.” That’s what a former West Virginian, who now lives in Oregon, told federal officials this week at one of the many recent blockbuster public hearings on coal exports. Crowds have turned out by the thousands — literally overflowing […]
