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Explaining the ‘100 million to die from climate change’ claim
A new report makes for splashy headlines about climate deaths -- but it's got another message that warrants more attention.
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How certain can we be about climate change?
Climate hawks stress that climate science is "settled," but that's misleading. There are still lots of uncertainties around climate, scientific and otherwise, and we have to learn to live with them.
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This terrifying hell-squid lives on ocean waste
Turns out the scary-looking "vampire squid" is the only cephalopod that DOESN'T want to eat you. It mainly eats poop.
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EPA rules create $5 of good for each $1 they cost
Then why is the president being attacked for supporting them? Because of where the cost is incurred.
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You will eat more cookies if you’re told they’re ‘medium’ instead of ‘large’
Although people make decisions based on size labels, they don't really know how much food or drink they're consuming.
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Mesmerizing video shows London bikeshare users’ favorite routes
London’s bikeshare has launched over 5 million trips since it started in 2010. This animation by visualization specialist Jo Wood shows you where they’ve all been going. It’s more informative if you know the city — but even if you don’t, it’s kind of hypnotic. (It won’t let us embed, but New Scientist has a […]
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We dare you not to cry while watching this man hand-feed a sick bee
An adorable bee was going to die until an adorable man adorably hand fed the bee honey and then the bee got better.
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These celebs want GMOs labeled
With the vote on GMO labeling in California only a month away, guess who's going public about the issue?
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Chipotle in hot salsa over tomato pickers’ rights
Activists are pushing Chipotle -- the one large fast food chain known for ethical meat -- to embrace a higher standard for workers. Will it work?
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The coming plague: How humans are changing the landscape of disease
Disease ecologist James Holland Jones talks about the Black Death, “suspended snot,” and the power of what Obi-Wan Kenobi once called a “wretched hive of scum and villainy" in spreading global pandemics.
