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Small-scale, distributed renewables: Tiny, but growing fast around the world
Small-scale, locally owned power (mainly solar) is spreading quickly and has enormous potential.
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Watch the Arctic thaw, in video and graph form
Like ruin porn, but with ice. Ice porn.
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Here are all of the various animals that climate change has empowered to kill you
Let me set the scene for you. There you are, Joe America or Jane Patriot, minding your business on one of the last weekends of summer. Walking along through one of America’s Majestic National Parks,™ you see an adorable animal and think, “I will take this home and keep it as a pet.” STOP. While […]
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Firefighters rescue adorable bobcat kitten from wildfire
Firefighters working to contain a California wildfire found this baby bobcat walking alone in circles by the side of the road. There was no trace of a mother bobcat, plus she kept going to sleep on their shoes, so the crew took the baby back to their command post, where public information officers cooed over her […]
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Mesmerizing real-time map of the world’s planes makes air travel look like a fungal infection
Eugh, what’s that swarming all over the surface of the planet? It looks like an insect horde, or maybe some kind of crawling fungus, but no, it’s just us in our flying machines. It’s simultaneously kind of gross and super-fascinating. PlaneFinder tracks every flight in the air at any given moment, in as close to […]
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World’s oldest message in a bottle has been found in Scotland
In 1914, a Scottish scientist named Captain C. Hunter Brown dropped 1,890 bottles in the North Sea as part of a science experiment. So far 315 of these bottles have been found, the most recent one last week by a Scottish fisherman named Andrew Leaper. At 98 years old, it’s the world’s oldest message in a […]
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Umbra’s second helpings: Green Jell-O shots [VIDEO]
A reader wonders whether to put her jigglers in paper or plastic cups. Umbra serves up a whole trayful of ways you can make your shots more earth-friendly.
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Baby steps: Why Obama’s nod to climate change could pay off
Obama's call for climate action and public shaming of GOP deniers in his convention speech last night was more than just lip service: It highlighted a pragmatic approach that could win votes in November.
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This new bike grows when your kid grows
In response to the pesky but unavoidable fact that children tend to grow over time, Spanish bike company Orbea has designed a child’s bicycle that grows with them.
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Saudi Arabia may be a net oil importer by 2030
The decline in exports from our third-largest source of imported oil has huge implications for the U.S.
