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Hillary 2016: Will she run — and should greens be psyched about it?
Hillary Clinton has said she'll step down as secretary of state next year if Obama wins a second term. That would give her lots of time to mount a 2016 campaign ...
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The Hunger Games: The world after a climate apocalypse, teen fiction style
The movie version of The Hunger Games, the wildly popular young adult novel set in a future ravaged by climate disasters and food insecurity, comes out this week.
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Freak heat wave makes Obama and Oprah ‘nervous’ about climate
Speaking at a Chicago fundraiser hosted by Oprah, President Obama admitted that the city's heat wave was making him "a little nervous" about global warming.
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Engineer wants to stop Arctic warming with a cloud-whitening machine
Painting your roof white can (maybe) reflect enough heat to save a year’s worth of emissions. So painting the clouds white should be able to reflect enough heat to stop global warming, right? At least, that’s the theory recently put forth by an eminent U.K. engineer who wants to “whiten clouds” to prevent Arctic ice […]
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Cloned baby goat is a super-adorable terrifying monster of science
The Kashmir region of south Asia is economically dependent on cashmere (the homophonic name is not a coincidence). But populations of pashmina goats, which produce the expensive wool, have been dwindling. So scientists at Sher-i-Kashmir University decided to hurry the process along, cloning a pashmina goat named Noori with little more than a microscope and crossed fingers.
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Inhofe: Global warming too costly to be real
Sen. James Inhofe appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show -- and accidentally revealed the real reason he became a climate denier.
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Fruit flies drink when they can’t get laid
When male fruit flies are deprived of sex, they turn to alcohol. Really.
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Navy’s new training area may harm endangered whales
Right whales may get screwed for being in the right place at the wrong time. That’s because the U.S. Navy wants to build a $100 million offshore training range in the very same area as the endangered whales’ regular swimming zone. Ah yes, the age-old battle of whales versus sailors — I seem to recall […]
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Crocodile incubator saves species from extinction
Don’t look now, but baby crocodiles might be UNEXPECTEDLY ADORABLE. And the best part of this video, from Cuba’s Sabanalamar animal nursery, is that these babies represent new hope for a vulnerable species. Cuban researchers at the nursery are using specially designed incubators to hatch American crocodiles, helping to save the species from extinction.
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New frog species found in Staten Island
Most folks assume Staten Island holds little more than Italian restaurants, mob wives, and a huge landfill. But another resident has just been discovered on New York City’s most disrespected borough: a new species of frog!