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Does Santorum think the pope is a ‘radical environmentalist’?
Rick Santorum presents himself as a devout Catholic, but on the issue of climate change, he strays far from the pope's teachings.
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Can carnivorous farmed fish go vegetarian?
The aquaculture industry has long fed wild fish to farmed fish, putting a huge dent in ocean ecosystems. Will new vegetarian feed improve aquaculture's footprint, or just muddy the waters?
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U.S. gangs up with Saudi Arabia to crush European climate initiative
All the world's countries love to talk piously about the need to address climate change. What happens if someone goes beyond talk to action? If the E.U.'s aviation program is any indication, it ain't pretty.
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Chihuahua-size horses caused by climate change
After they first appeared in the fossil record, horses got smaller as a result of a warming planet, says a study just published in Science. Thing is, proto-horses weren't that big to begin with.
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If people got rid of their extra cars, they could afford an extra house
The average American family owns 2.28 cars, and even in genuinely car-dependent areas they could probably get away with one. How much does that excess auto capacity cost? Enough that if everyone ditched their unnecessary vehicles, they’d save an average of $186,425.03 over 30 years. In a lot of places, that’s enough to buy another […]
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Right-wingers and greens agree: The Lorax movie sucks balls
Between commie brainwashing and Mazda pandering, Fox News and greens agree: The Lorax movie sucks.
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The sky is falling! (No, really.)
This is not a joke: The sky is falling. Or technically, the height of clouds, the average of which decreased about 1 percent from 2000 to 2010. Researchers at the University of Auckland, who collected the data, attributed the change to a drop in the number of clouds formed at high altitudes.
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High school boys record green rap video
Man, this video really induces high school flashbacks. A group of seniors at Atlanta’s Marist School created it as part of the Green School Alliance’s Green Cup Challenge. These fine, upstanding young fellas won the video part of the challenge by adapting Outkast’s So Fresh, So Clean to a greener message. The part where they […]
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Submarine data will be declassified for climate science
Some of the data gathered by Royal Navy nuclear submarines is going to be declassified in order to aid climate scientists' study of the polar oceans, which are melting and wreaking havoc on global weather patterns already.
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Google’s seven-person conference bike
NPR did a story about how tech companies encourage bike commuting, which: duh. But Google apparently goes a step further and encourages bike conferencing, via a giant pedaled monstrosity with seven inward-facing seats.