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After not seeing one for 33 years, Japanese government finally declares river otters extinct
When you truly love somebody that’s gone missing, you never admit that she’s gone, even if you’ve seen neither hide nor hair of her for 33 years. So now we know how the Japanese government feels about the Japanese river otter. Because the Ministry of the Environment just declared the river otter, last spotted in […]
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Is the ‘natural’ label 100 percent misleading?
Do you let the words "all natural" sway your purchasing decisions? If so, you're not alone. Here's what the label really means (and doesn't).
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Vladimir Putin dressed as a bird to save endangered cranes
There are 20 white cranes left in the world. But for one special day, there were 21. OK, the extra crane wasn’t really a crane. It was Russian President Vladimir Putin on a hang-glider, wearing a white jumpsuit and a crane nose.
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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.
