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Watch a teenager’s stunning video of the Manila floods
Farbod Kasiri took this video out the window of his 31st-floor apartment, to show his Canadian friend why classes are canceled in the Philippines. Featured: streets like rivers, submerged buses, and cars with only their roofs emerging from the water.
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Typhoons and flooding soak Philippines and China
The worst flooding in years hits Manila, while China is battered by a series of typhoons.
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Ted Cruz, Tea Party’s new Latino hero, is a bit loony on green issues
For a guy being touted as an intellectual, Cruz has some out-there views on toilets and Agenda 21, and some confused views on Keystone and cap-and-trade.
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Here’s a tiny gorilla getting a checkup — and here’s what he looks like now
This picture of a baby gorilla named Yakini is from 1999, but it’s been going around again, because the internet’s love is eternal. At least, the internet’s love for a baby gorilla going “hoo DOGGIE that stethoscope is cold!”
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The hunger wars in our future: Heat, drought, rising food costs, and global unrest
The physical effects of climate change will prove catastrophic. But the social effects -- food riots, state collapse, mass migrations, and conflicts of every sort -- could prove even more disruptive and deadly.
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Drought: Bad for the Gulf ‘dead zone’ after all?
The nation's drought-withered corn fields aren't taking in anywhere near the amount of nitrogen fertilizer that farmers put on the ground last spring. And the excess could show up in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Gas prices explained by way of a neighborhood barbecue
Why does the price we pay for auto fuel spike and dive so unpredictably? You may find the answer in the burger on your grill.
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Washington comes down with green fever, expected to survive
A new partnership between Defense and Interior, plus an announcement from the White House, means a good day for renewables.
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Sophisticated energy markets maybe not great at Twitter
A fake tweet yesterday caused crude oil futures to rise more than 1 percent. Oops.
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Video shows failed attempts to avert nuclear catastrophe after Japanese tsunami
A newly released video shows utility officials trying to figure out what the hell to do after the Japanese tsunami hits the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. Watch a snippet.
