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Notorious Northern Virginia coal plant officially retires
On a scorching hot day last July, I stood on the deck of a boat on the Potomac River and introduced Michael R. Bloomberg, philanthropist and mayor of New York City, who was there to announce a game-changing gift to the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign. Behind us was the notorious, polluting Potomac River coal plant in […]
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The Confluence Project is photographing every latitude/longitude intersection on Earth
Although volunteers have visited more than a third of the accessible confluence points, there are 10,166 out there waiting to be visited.
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McDonald’s video claims their beef is not really that bad
McDonald's makes a video to show people that their beef is as pure as the driven snow, and even includes a few lol questions from wary consumers.
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TransCanada protests reveal a bum deal for Texas landowners
Sign the contract or have your land seized, TransCanada tells landowners. Luca Brasi would feel right at home.
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Tsunami of ‘chemical deodorant’ foam floods Chinese village
What would you think if you saw a giant wall of doom-bubbles advancing on you down the river? PANIC.
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Human-made 50-ton rainbow proves you’re not in Kansas anymore
Culver City, Calif., where the Wizard of Oz was filmed, is getting an infusion of magic and hope in the form of a 100,000-pound rainbow.
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How Apple Maps could save the planet
When it comes to energy efficiency, Apple Maps blows Google Maps out of the water.
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NASA’s incredible nighttime video shows you Earth as you’ve never seen it
This nighttime flyover of Earth has a handy informative commentary so you know what you're looking at, which makes it that much cooler.
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How Gov. Romney threw his climate plans into reverse
A retrospective of Mitt Romney's tenure as governor of Massachusetts shows clearly his politically motivated environmental flip-flop.
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This company is planning to mine asteroids, and you could be their intern
A company looking to mine precious metals from asteroids needs interns to help them out with lots of things, such how exactly the heck to do that.
