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Paradise lost in Palau: Island nation fights back against climate change
Threatened by encroaching seas, the tiny island nation of Palau is taking legal action with the U.N. to hold the industrialized world accountable for damage caused by climate change.
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Should Walmart Write America’s Energy Plan?
Recent campaign stops by Mitt Romney and President Obama could not provide a more stark contrast of energy policies. Romney promises coal miners that he’s in favor of energy from “below the ground”, albeit preferring domestic sources of all fossil fuels. The President has repeatedly focused on “above the ground” solutions, such as wind and […]
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Man, the Mississippi River looks like HELL right now
You know how sometimes you overdo it at a party, but you don’t think it’s a big deal, until someone uploads pictures and you’re like “holy CRAP I looked like a hobo all night”? That’s probably how the Mississippi River feels right now. Sure, we all knew there was a drought and that the river […]
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California meat company shut down for abusing cows
Fair warning: There are no graphic images or videos, but even the language here is disconcerting.
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What would happen if everyone on Earth jumped at the same time?
Michael Stevens of internet thingy VSauce investigates the foremost question in the minds of people who care about the Earth: How worried do we need to be that everyone on the planet is going to travel to Los Angeles and jump simultaneously? Would that cause an earthquake? Would it knock Earth off its axis? And […]
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Scoop: A preview of Romney’s energy plan
We managed to get our hands on Romney's energy policy a day before he will announce it.
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Honda Miimo is basically a Roomba for your lawn
Can you imagine just being able to sit around and watch television all weekend on your massive energy-sucking flat screen while someone else niftily, sustainably, mowed your lawn? Someone you didn’t have to pay? Someone you didn’t even have to talk to, because they’re a little tiny automatic lawn mower, which is, when you get […]
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New clean energy plant will run on used cooking oil
In Shoreham, on the south coast of England, they’re building a clean energy plant that will operate on basically the same fuel as your biodiesel-retrofitted Jetta. The plant will burn used cooking oil, tall oil pitch (whatever that is), animal tallow, and waste vegetable oils to potentially provide as many as 20,000 Brits with power for their […]
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As New York nears fracking decision, both sides take to the airwaves
Opponents and supporters of fracking are doing battle on radio and TV along New York State's southern border.
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Swiss can now brag about neutrality, cheese, and a tree museum
If you were a tree, could you think of a better life than living with 2,000 other trees on the grounds of a 14th century Swiss monastery? Well, I have no idea what trees like, so maybe not — but if that sounds good to a tree, it is now possible. The Tree Museum, which opened this […]
