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Deadly connection: New report on extreme weather and climate change
The links between climate change and costly, deadly weather events are robust and well-documented, according to a report from Reps. Ed Markey and Henry Waxman.
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Georgia Power makes a big bet on solar
There's good reason to do so: Georgia has experienced a number of problems with hot weather leading to decreased fossil energy output.
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New York City sees spike in traffic deaths, harbor poop
The mayor's annual survey of statistics in the New York City has some good pieces of news -- and two particularly bad ones.
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How did we let another country beat us to pizza-encrusted candy bars?
America, I still believe in your ability to bang two junk foods together and make something horrible. But Pizza Hut Middle East scooped you on the pizza-dough-coated Kit-Kats.
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The vanishing ice cap, in two images
NASA has a stark illustration of how this year's record-low Arctic ice cap compares to the ice cap in 1984.
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Internet genius wants you to ride around in a series of 900-mph tubes
PayPal founder Elon Musk is getting sick of waiting around for someone to build a bullet train. So he’s come up with an idea he calls the Hyperloop, a sort of mega-fast Futurama people-tube situation that would get passengers from L.A. to San Francisco in 30 minutes. The Hyperloop would move people at speeds up to […]
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USDA OKs tofu as a meat substitute in school lunches
Which will do nothing to quell the right's fury over the new school lunch standards.
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The economy grows more slowly than expected, thanks to the drought
Economic growth in the U.S. during the spring was 0.4 percent slower than expected, largely due to the record-setting drought.
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New York is building the world’s largest ferris wheel in Staten Island
The city has decided to give tourists a reason to stay in the borough for longer than the time it takes to catch the next ferry.
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In an era of post-truth politics, credibility is like a rainbow
Andrew Sullivan thinks Obama has earned "conservative credibility," but he's making a common mistake of post-truth politics.
