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International Agencies Using Flawed Data to Fast-Track Kosovo Coal Plant, Put Health At Risk
While no new coal plants have broken ground here in the US since 2008, the US government is backing a huge, polluting new coal plant oversees. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and World Bank are pushing a heavily polluting, costly, and controversial new coal plant in Kosovo. As if that weren’t bad enough, […]
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Astronauts fixed the space station with a toothbrush
Most of us postpone tossing our old toothbrushes in the landfill by putting them to work as cleaning tools. But very few of us postpone tossing our old toothbrushes in the landfill by putting them to work as cleaning tools on the International Space Station. Astronauts Sunita Williams and Akihiko Hoshide did that yesterday, though, when […]
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Frustrated Russians get rid of potholes by stuffing them into politicians’ mouths
The writers for Russian blog URA.RU got fed up with unfixed potholes in the city of Yekaterinburg, so they decided to force-feed them to politicians. Or, anyway, giant cartoons of politicians’ heads. They enlisted ad agency Voskhod to draw cartoons of local pols around potholes and other road imperfections, in order to draw attention to […]
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World’s richest woman would prefer to pay her miners $2 a day
Gina Rinehart, world's richest woman, can't believe she has to pay miners more than they would earn in Africa. She'd much rather pay them $2 a day (or less).
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New stingray species has amazingly cool-looking skeleton
This looks like a candidate for the newest energy-efficient lightbulb, but it’s actually an x-ray of a recently-discovered freshwater stingray species.
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Paul Ryan’s wind power hypocrisy
His arguments against the wind production tax credit would be much better applied to subsidies for Big Oil.
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Climate change could lead to a rise in brain-eating parasites
Maybe nothing is weird about the rise in cases of primary amebic meningoencephalitis. Or maybe climate change is making conditions more hospitable for this warm-water-loving parasite and we're all gonna dieeeeeeeeee.
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‘I, Party Cup’: Help Grist make a crazy documentary
Who made the red party cup such a ubiquitous part of our disposable world -- and why'd they do it? Grist needs your help to fund this crazy documentary.
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The Arctic is getting wetter and the Amazon is getting drier and cats are chasing dogs
Well, that last part isn't true.
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Suicidal caterpillar is really dumb or really wants to get eaten
Is there a caterpillar equivalent of the Darwin Awards? Because this guy is a shoo-in. The Redditors who found this video have speculated that the caterpillar is infected with a mind-control parasite that needs to get inside the toad to thrive. Sounds crazy, yes, but there’s a parasite that’s been doing something similar to carpenter […]
