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Heavy metal fish: How mercury ends up on your plate
How do we reduce our exposure to mercury? The answer requires both difficult changes to the world’s energy supply and simpler consumer choices.
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These photos of Earth are so gorgeous they belong in a museum
For 40 years, satellites have been chilling up above the planet, capturing images of the surface for scientific purposes. But it happens that many of these photos look like incredible paintings. Here are a few of our favorites.
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Real world: For residents of one troubled town, climate change seems a long way off
In a town where jobs, violence, and housing are daily concerns, global warming doesn’t make the short list, a local hip hop artist and urban farmer tells the Slow Ride Stories crew.
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Heat brings U.S. climate debate to new boil
Are clean-energy policies already rescuing the planet? Or is it time for us to put a price on carbon that costs the fuel industry trillions?
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The sun’s atmosphere looks like an amazing painting
Sure, the surface of the sun is hot and all, but the sun’s atmosphere is hotter — by a factor of 1,000. And as it turns out, it’s not just hot like “will burn you up faster than a Tony Robbins seminar” hot. It’s also hot like gorrrrrrrrgeous. Scientists know that the sun’s atmosphere (the […]
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Stunning map shows 11 years of U.S. wildfires
This map by John Nelson shows all major U.S. wildfires (and probably some prescribed fires) since 2001, with yellow being more intense. That bright purple over most of the country except the lucky Northeast is fires that put out maybe half as much energy as a power plant produces in the course of a year. […]
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Why is the U.S. government so bullish on coal predictions?
The Department of Energy has a more favorable outlook for coal than virtually any other major forecasting institution.
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Holy crap, iceberg tsunami!
If you’ve ever wondered what it looks like to almost get flattened by a collapsing glacier, now you can find out. This boat was right in the line of fire — er, ice — so this video is the next best thing to being there. Actually, it’s the first best thing, because being there looks like […]
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Here’s what lightning looks like in 3-D
From our vantage point on the ground, lightning usually looks like a forked line from the sky to the ground. But it's way more complicated and cool, as this model of lightning from the D.C. derecho shows.
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The right gets mad about the carbon tax, as everyone knew they would
On Friday, we predicted outrage over a right-wing convening on the carbon tax. It happened. We're basically psychic.