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When it comes to the weather, we are basically cavemen
Which is to say: lots of updates on the drought and the hurricanes -- including Isaac, who may be on his way back.
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Good news: The nuclear apocalypse will kill everything but beer
Imagine there’s a huge nuclear explosion and almost everyone you know is dead. Sure, things are bad. But you can still get a beer. Alex Wellerstein at the Nuclear Secrecy blog has looked into some of the weird shit that the United State’s Nuclear Defense Agency did during the Cold War to better understand the […]
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Utilities beat back community solar bill in California
A bill that would have let anyone in California buy power from small-scale, local renewable projects was killed by big investor-owned utilities.
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Ed Markey, coauthor of big cap-and-trade bill, now lauds Obama’s ‘drill baby drill’ approach
Rep. Ed Markey, one of the biggest climate hawks in Congress, is now talking up President Obama's "all-of-the-above" energy strategy, from renewables to oil drilling.
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Big Dog touches on big issue: Bill Clinton nods to climate change in convention speech
In a barn burner of a speech Wednesday night, Bill Clinton became the first big-timer at the Democratic convention to make reference to climate change.
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Organic food might not be more nutritious, but you should eat it anyway
A roundup of expert opinions on Stanford University's latest organic study raises some big questions about the role of nutrition in the organic conversation.
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The Anthropocene explained, game-show style [AUDIO]
Everything you need to know about the Age of Man in just five – OK, seven, minutes.
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Mixed blessing: New Yorkers can get free cab rides from Uber this week
This article is available in both Manhattan and non-Manhattan versions.
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New documentary lets you watch glaciers disappear
Anyone who is not a raging moron knows that glaciers are melting really fast. We should probably be constantly consumed by worrying about our waterlogged future, yet we somehow manage to sit around having conversations about, like, cheese. The reason is pretty simple: We can’t see glaciers. They are Far. Which is why National Geographic […]
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Hurricane Isaac leaves tar balls, oiled animals on Louisiana beaches
BP says it's not entirely clear who's to blame. (Really.)
