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Wildfires, droughts, and frigid winters: Which natural disasters did climate change make worse?
A study found that some extreme weather events are strongly influenced by climate change, while others are hardly linked to it at all.
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There’s plastic in your fancy sea salt, study says
Plastics soak up pollutants in water and deposit them in your body. And that's not good.
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Can polluters block Obama’s Clean Power Plan in court?
Lawsuits from industry and Republicans are pouring forth like soot from a smokestack, aiming to undermine landmark rules for power plants.
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Watch us explain the Internet of Things with a jellyfish
Even if you care more about, say, trees than Silicon Valley-born electronics, the Internet of Things is something you should know about.
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Turns out Daylight Saving Time really does suck
When an exhausted reader wonders what the benefits of Daylight Saving Time really are, Umbra sets the record (and the clock) straight.
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Can something called the cleanweb help fight climate change?
These techies want to use the internet in the fight climate change, right alongside solar panels and urban farms.
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Obama says “no” to TransCanada’s latest Keystone gambit
The company asked for a delay in review of the pipeline proposal, hoping to push the decision off to the next president. Obama denied the request.
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“Punk archaeologists” study the human side of the oil industry in the Bakken shale
An archaeological team documents the lives of North Dakota oil workers in temporary settlements.
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Special lane addresses the bane of sidewalks everywhere: Slow walkers
The fast sidewalk lane is meant to speed shoppers to a store, but we hope it spreads.
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Proposed natural gas pipeline raises major social justice concerns
Member of Congress and black residents don't want the pipeline and the noise that comes with it.