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Climate change will shake the Earth — literally
A changing climate isn't just about floods, droughts, and heat waves. It brings erupting volcanoes and catastrophic earthquakes too.
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Put your hack into it: Anonymous targets Monsanto
Hackers affiliated with Anonymous launch an attack on Monsanto. And while the data they obtained doesn't reveal anything new, it might be oddly satisfying for those who lament the seed giant's recent court victory over small farmers.
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Philadelphia Eagles build a green stadium
The Philadelphia Eagles’ helmets are already green, and by next year their stadium will match. The team is partnering with power company NRG to build one of the greenest sports arenas in the country.
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Snowe job: The Senate needs reform, not a bipartisan chorus of kumbayah
Fix Congress with more compromises, says retiring Sen. Olympia Snowe. "Give me a break," sighs David Roberts.
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Lexicon of Sustainability: Fishing after Katrina
The latest installment of the Lexicon series brings us up close and personal with a third-generation Gulf Coast crab fisherman.
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The trouble with right-wing bitching about gas prices, in one handy cartoon
We might as well close up shop here, because cartoonist Ed Stein has done all the work for us.
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Why climate change is irrelevant to clean energy
Maggie Koerth-Baker, science editor at BoingBoing, has written a book. Here’s the basic idea: In America at least, if we want to get anything done on clean energy, we have to divorce it from conversations about climate change.
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‘Ag-gag’ rules choke off supply of livestock snuff films
Rather than deal with the inhumane, superbug-spawning conditions in factory farms, the Iowa state legislature would prefer to stifle one of activists' primary weapons of dissent.
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‘Waking Mars’ is the most amazing game about gardening you’ll ever play
New iOS app “Waking Mars” is a game about gardening, botany, and ecology, which sounds boring — especially if you’re about my age, and your primary school teachers tried to get you to learn about ecosystems via some clunky games with Oregon Trail-level graphics where you controlled the number of fish or ducks or some […]
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Giant, awesome ‘tree lobster’ survived 80 years in hiding
http://vimeo.com/14413689 The Lord Howe Island stick insect, which you see hatching above, looking like an alien struggling out of a human torso, will grow to the size of your hand. It’s also called a “tree lobster” — that’s how big it is. The most incredible thing about these insects, though, is not how big they […]
