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Fracking threatens farms and food safety
Cows near natural-gas fracking sites are getting sick and dying. Food or fuel -- which kind of independence is most important to us?
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Polar ice sheets are melting three times faster than during the ’90s
As a result, sea levels have gone up 11 millimeters from ice melt alone.
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Americans on pace to spend a record amount of money on gas this year
And to generate a hell of a lot of CO2 while we're at it.
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Joe Biden doesn’t need tires, and neither do you, America
Avuncular veep Joe Biden hits up a Costco to buy children's books and pie but no car tires. Why? Because Joe knows driving is for losers.
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The amazing frogfish is a master of disguise
For the frogfish, every day is Halloween. They're going as a sexy sponge! Or a sexy algae-covered rock.
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Watch every hurricane that formed during the third-most-active season in history
As hurricane season comes to an end, we take stock: Lots of big named storms that resulted in billions of dollars of damage on the East Coast and the Caribbean.
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Senate rejects Inhofe’s anti-biofuels amendment because it’s dumb
Climate denier James Inhofe wanted to bar the U.S. military from using biofuels unless they're cheaper than oil. His Senate colleagues slapped him down.
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Prehistoric poo yields clues about concentration of people in the environment
Scientists have found that a chemical found in human feces is a good way to figure out where people have lived and for how long and in what concentrations.
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Super-rare fast-food worker strike hits NYC
Workers are organizing at dozens of McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Taco Bell, Domino's, and Papa John's locations city-wide.
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No Keystone XL? Big Oil will just take the train
Thanks to anti-pipeline activism and a North American oil boom, more crude is being transported by rail.
