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New coal ads: Industry hits Obama, Obama hits Romney
In new ads, the coal industry claims to be "clean" and Obama slams Romney for exploiting miners who were forced to attend a rally and lost a day's pay.
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Watch an octopus take apart a camera while punching a shark
To researchers, this baited camera is equipment for monitoring underwater ecosystems. To an octopus, it's just a complicated lunchbox.
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Bhutan wants to be the world’s first 100 percent organic country
To be fair, the country's already most of the way there.
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Meet the lake so polluted that spending an hour there would kill you
Thanks to a secret government nuclear facility, Lake Karachay may be the most polluted spot on the planet.
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What can climate hawks expect from the first presidential debate?
Moderator Jim Lehrer isn't likely to ask a direct question about climate change, but you can bet that energy policy will come up. David Roberts offers a primer.
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Why won’t Obama address rising grass prices?
With the drought driving up hay prices, farmers and ranchers are increasingly reporting theft.
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Yet another oil sheen spotted in Gulf of Mexico
The government has spotted another oily mess in the Gulf. It isn't totally sure it's from BP. Yet, anyway.
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Thanks to climate change, Texas is up to its ears in dead crickets
Texas is having a very big problems with crickets and it's not just that the crickets are really gross, it's that when they die, they smell really bad.
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‘Detropia’ takes us inside the lives of people living among the ruins
The Motor City has been glamorized as a land of exquisite corpses. Now, the directors of "Boys of Baraka" and "Jesus Camp" bring us the survivors.
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Clean energy showdown in Arizona
National politics tends to suck up all the attention. But a battle going on in Arizona could have a huge effect on the future of solar power.
