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Romney includes one wind rep on his 50-person Colorado energy task force
It's almost like he doesn't want to hear what the wind industry has to say.
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Isaac just graduated to hurricane, is aimed right at New Orleans
The most recent NOAA update won't provide evoke much relief on the Gulf Coast.
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China’s brand-new baby panda is the result of actual panda sex
Fans of (slightly weird) adorableness are having a good week, as a panda named Yuan Yuan at Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding and Research Base in southwest China gave birth to her fourth cub.
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Republican convention flooded with corporate money
A big storm has hit Tampa after all: Hurricane Benjamins.
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They’re genetically modifying goats to create human breast milk substitute
You know that human breast milk is very important for babies’ development. (If you don’t know this, go ostentatiously bottle-feed a baby doll near a farmers market! It will be fun, I promise.) But for various reasons, sometimes new moms can’t breastfeed — they need medication that shows up in breast milk, for instance, or […]
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Contrarian conservationist: Nature Conservancy’s chief scientist riles old-school greens
Biologist Peter Kareiva says conservationists are too focused on restoring pristine nature. Instead, he says, they need to think about creating a future we can all live with.
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What is this talking otter trying to tell us?
I never realized this before, but it turns out otters can talk, and furthermore they sound just like Ike from South Park. This one also seems mildly irked by human inability to comprehend her language. What is she trying to tell us?
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Miners’ mandatory attendance at Romney rally cost them a day’s pay
Coal miners in Ohio really got the shaft when Romney came to town.
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Number of bees in Queens man’s yard exceeds population of Queens
New York legalized beekeeping in 2010, but that does not mean that it was cool with city officials when they discovered that a guy in Queens named Yi Gin Chen had 45 beehives in his yard, containing 3 million bees. That’s more bees than there are people who live in Queens.
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Keeping it in the family: BPA’s effects might last in our bodies for generations
Scientists who exposed mice to BPA at low-level, consistent doses found that it caused genetic and behavioral changes that persisted for generations.
