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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.
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GMO labeling initiative gets rolling in Washington state
A similar ballot measure was killed in California last year. Can a grassroots effort defeat big corporate money this time around?
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A ‘fusion’ of good news: Solar stocks are ‘hot’ thanks to Warren Buffett’s ‘flare’
A subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has paid $2.5 billion for one of the world's largest solar projects. The solar industry rejoices.
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Don’t like burgers? Maybe you’d prefer eating the moon or a vampire
Fat & Furious Burger kind of elevates the burger above a mere food item and turns it into more of an artistic genre.
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Climate change may ruin Lake Tahoe’s beautiful blueness
Not to mention the area's ski resorts.
