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Is New Nuclear Energy Just Mission Impossible?
Until headlines last week announced the end of his marriage to Katie Holmes, it seemed there was no mission too impossible for Tom Cruise to accomplish. But even his cool, Burj Khalifa-climbing character in the famous film franchise might refuse the Mission Impossible assignment facing global economies today – – powering growth with nuclear energy. […]
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Ethanol: Beloved by farmers, detested by Big Oil, endlessly debated by Congress
A case study in how change is made in Washington: slowly, with much debate, and with tangential regard for the science.
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Watch a clam snarf salt off a table
Here’s a fun pastime, if you’re mildly sociopathic: Put a clam on a table. Sprinkle salt around it. Watch as it investigates with what looks for all the world like a gigantic creepy beige tongue. Yes, we know it’s not a tongue, but you know it looks like it’s sticking out its tongue and very […]
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Hey, look, a Republican who cares about climate change!
Bob Inglis got ousted from Congress after advocating for a carbon tax. Now he's launching a new group to push conservative climate solutions.
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Fox News thinks pollution is good for the planet
Fox News is now apparently telling viewers that pollution helps forests grow.
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Saving surplus: Gleaned foods make it to the grocery shelf
Most farmers plan to plow a portion of their crops back under every year, but a new project in the Bay Area is stepping in to reduce food waste at the farm level.
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Hydropower: Dammed If You Do
No, that is not a picture of cooling ponds inside a nuclear reactor. Those are dust covers on the turbines at the Grand Coulee dam. According to the photographer, you have to pass through a metal detector to get this far into the power plant. Come to think of it, the nuclear power industry could […]
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How nearly empty swaths of Montana guide policy on the Keystone pipeline
While Montana is home to only 0.3 percent of America's population, it controls 2 percent of the Senate. And that 2 percent supports Keystone.
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Patriot Coal files for bankruptcy
The company cites the coal industry's "major transformation" in a public statement.
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As water dries up, so do crops. Get used to it.
The link between reduced agricultural irrigation and reduced crop yields is becoming increasingly apparent -- and for a more populous world, an increasing problem.
