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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.
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100 years ago, people thought that today we’d commute by whalebus
Public Domain Review collected a bunch of turn-of-the-century visions of the year 2000. Whalebuses? Flying cabs? Personal prop planes? Yes, please!
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Temperature increases result in economic decreases
A new study finds that hotter weather hurts economies in developing countries. So, that's great anyway.
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Please enjoy this turtle with a mohawk
This turtle is dealing with endangerment in much the same way many humans deal with adolescence: He's gone punk.
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This hedgehog photo looks like a scene from a fairy tale
Photographer Cath Schneider captured this photo of her daughter and the hedgehog that lives in their garden, when the girl brought it a plate of lactose-free milk to drink and blow bubbles in.
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How the rare earth elements in your iPhone are polluting Inner Mongolia
The region in Inner Mongolia that provides critical, scarce resources for your technology has been heavily, broadly polluted.
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Is fracking linked to earthquakes? Yeah, kinda, sorta, probably
Research from the University of Texas takes on a different spin depending on where you read about it.
