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The fracking boom, as told in six railroad industry graphs
Who knew that trains could tell us so much about our energy industry?
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The carbon math – Western US ecosystems capacity to store carbon in future depends on emissions reductions now
How much carbon is stored in natural systems of the continental western US? Over coming decades, how much of the fossil fuel carbon dioxide we are pumping into the atmosphere will western ecosystems absorb? A new US Geological Service survey provides some sobering answers. The two crucial takeways: First, the capacity of western ecosystems to […]
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The condoms of the future could disappear when you’re done with them
Researchers at the University of Washington want to replace the humble cocksheath with a space-age nano-fabric that's actually woven out of medication.
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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.
