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New York City will soon start zapping its water with ultraviolet light
The city's famously delicious drinking water will be treated by the biggest UV disinfection plant in the world.
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Purse full of wine is so classy it hurts
If you are the type of Classy Lady who drinks wine, you don’t want to have to wait until you take the wine out of the special wine gift bag to let people know how classy you are. You want something that lets you announce that shit from the get-go! Like a wine purse. The […]
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Hurricane Isaac left the Gulf Coast ankle-deep in dead swamp rats
Nutria, a rodent brought to the U.S. over a century ago, are still all over the Gulf Coast today -- but there are now 5,000 fewer of them after Hurricane Isaac.
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Projecting the very hot future of California’s cities
A state panel outlines the expected spike in the number of extremely hot days for California cities.
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A farm in Brooklyn is growing cyborg tomatoes
These veggies can't be programmed to go back in time and kill rebel leaders before they are born (yet). But they can tell their human overlords just how fast and well they're growing.
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Space shuttle’s final journey will kill 400 trees
Space shuttle Endeavour has never been the greenest of projects — I mean, consider how much gas it takes to circle the planet 4,600 times. Sure, blah blah the majesty of the final frontier, but that thing’s tailpipe makes a Chinese factory look like a wind turbine. Now, even in retirement, Endeavour is managing to come up […]
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Climate and energy get no love on day one of Democratic convention
Michelle Obama, Julian Castro, and other headliners generated a lot of energy -- just not the kind you can power a house or a car with.
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The government can’t afford its greenhouse gas monitoring regimen anymore
NOAA spends about $6 million a year to monitor CO2 and other greenhouse gases -- or it used to, when it had money.
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The Democratic Convention kicks off, its greenness in the eye of the beholder
The Democrats' platform is less green than it was four years ago -- but they have lots of composting and recycling bins at the convention center.
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Romney attributes climate change to humans — but won’t make humans do anything about it
Mitt Romney says there's no point in curbing emissions given China's greenhouse gas output and theoretical impact on manufacturing jobs.
