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Move over, Marlboro man — here comes the Marlboro bird!
Smart: Birds use cigarettes to repel mites from their nests. Smarter: They may prefer the brands highest in nicotine.
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How New York’s poor ended up along its vulnerable coast
Decades-old urban planning efforts have resulted in many lower-income New Yorkers living along the city's coastlines.
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China has plans for a victory garden in space
It's is very, very hard to get fresh, local veggies in space. But China has a solution.
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Will the devastated monarch butterfly take flight again?
Activists are working to help these cute bugs rise to their former glory.
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How to Profit From Climate Change
As the world assembles in Doha to debate climate change policy, solutions, and costs, few attendees at “COP18” are looking at this as a profit-making opportunity. If they did, there might be agreements among nations instead of continued gridlock and finger-pointing. Over two decades ago, scientists warned that growing carbon pollution in the atmosphere would […]
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House GOP finds perfect energy committee staffer in the energy industry
I know! We were surprised, too!
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Natural gas is eating coal’s lunch in the Southeast
The Southeastern U.S., traditionally a coal-reliant area, is gradually shifting to natural gas as an electricity source.
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Ground-Breaking Solar Agreement Between LA and Nevada Tribe
Today Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa signed an agreement to purchase enough solar energy from Nevada’s Moapa Band of Paiutes to power 105,000 Los Angeles homes. (That’s him at the podium above making the announcement in front of a new array of solar panels at Occidental College). This ground-breaking agreement is great news for everyone […]
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China’s going greener, even if it means flattening 700 mountains
Expanding the country's dirtiest city will mean flattening the landscape.
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Unless hell freezes over, 2012 will be the hottest year in U.S. history
And we basically mean that literally.
