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Greenland’s ‘extraordinary’ summer ice melt may have been caused by tundra fires
Which themselves are a likely symptom of climate change.
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Students’ fossil-fuel divestment campaign aims at colleges’ creamy moral centers
350.org's campaign to create pressure on universities to divest from fossil fuel companies is not just rolling -- it's snowballing.
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Holy crap it used to take forever to get anywhere in this country
Six weeks to get from New York to Chicago! And FORGET about L.A.
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Doctors save elephant’s eyesight with historic cataract operation
Duchess the elephant just got the second elephant cataract surgery ever performed.
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Famed idiot Lord Monckton banned for life from U.N. climate talks
His impromptu speech denying global warming didn't go over well in Doha.
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Shift the gift: Dematerializing the holidays
Introducing our theme for December: how a Grist editor's "no presents this year" letter sparked a wave of holiday-season rethinking.
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Fossil-fuel extraction on public land yields massive economic boom, kind of
The $12 billion the U.S. government earned by selling off publicly owned oil, gas, and coal is just a smiiiidge offset by some other costs.
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Green is the official color of 2013
We've been saying for a while that green is the new black, and now we know exactly what shade of green.
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Nearly half of Los Angeles car accidents are hit-and-runs
Last year, 100 pedestrians and 24 bicyclists were killed in traffic-related accidents.
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This gravity-powered lamp could bring nearly free lighting to the developing world
Twenty-five bucks gets a light made and delivered to a person in India or Africa.
