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Is a major science group stumping for Monsanto?
When the American Association for the Advancement of Science came out against GMO labeling one week before the vote on California's Prop 37, it raised some big questions about the group's affiliations.
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Density helps New Yorkers keep the lights on
Dense housing means underground power lines. Which means power even after an überstorm hits.
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A boat on the train tracks, and other transportation effects from Sandy
Some pictures of Sandy's impact on the region's transportation, plus resources for finding out when you'll be able to use buses and trains again.
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![People shout slogans as they march during a protest against plans to expand a petrochemical plant in Ningbo, Zhejiang province October 28, 2012.]()
![People shout slogans as they march during a protest against plans to expand a petrochemical plant in Ningbo, Zhejiang province October 28, 2012.]()
Chinese protesters kill plans for chemical plant expansion
Activists in Ningbo, China, hit the streets and succeeded in scuttling plans to expand a plant that produces the chemical paraxylene, or PX.
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Romney doesn’t want to talk about preparing for or responding to Sandy
Last year, Mitt Romney said the federal government should get out of the emergency-management business. Now he's not saying anything at all.
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Your car might be made out of recycled beans, pants, and money
Garbage is bad. Oil spills are bad. But when you can use them to make cars, they become kinda useful.
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Oysters could have helped save New York from Sandy
They're basically the coral reefs of the Northeast.
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Superstorm Sandy
Much of New Jersey, New York City and elsewhere definitely got hit very hard by Superstorm Hurricane Sandy yesterday: several feet of sand covering roads close to the ocean in Point Pleasant and probably elsewhere—50 or so homes burned down in Queens—extensive flooding of the lower Manhattan NYC subways—7 million or more customers without power—blizzard […]
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New York City’s latest massive disaster
The most effective predictor of who would be spared the worst impacts: elevation.
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The Netherlands is getting a glow-in-the-dark highway
This is the Netherlands, which means it’s only a matter of time before they put this technology to work in bike lanes, too.
