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Denver zoo test-drives elephant-poop-powered vehicle
The Denver Zoo has to deal with a lot of waste. A good deal of that waste comes from visitors, but the zoo also produces hundreds of thousands of pounds of animal poo each year. Now, zoo engineers have found a positive use for it: They rigged up a poo-powered tuk-tuk. (A tuk-tuk is a […]
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This ocean climate model is downright hypnotic
Last year, a group of NASA scientists and animators put together this animation of the world’s ocean surface currents, based on ocean flow data for June 2005 to December 2007. The video starts over the Atlantic, and as the globe rotates, you can see the whorls and waves dancing across the ocean, the relative calm […]
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Katniss Evergreen: Do ‘Hunger Games’ fans care about climate?
Has the obsessive fandom surrounding Hunger Games led to more climate change awareness in the shiftless youth of today? We attend a midnight premiere to find out.
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Triumph, tragedy, and climate change: ‘The Island President’
A new documentary follows former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed in his efforts to tackle climate change.
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Climate change threatens baby seals
You could probably intuit that climate change would threaten seal pups, being as how they’re vulnerable critters who require cold climates. But just in case you had doubts, new research has arrived to tell you that yup, Antarctic fur seal pups are screwed.
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Earth Day too committed for you? Celebrate Earth Hour instead
Thanks, global recession: Earth Day gets cut down to Earth Hour. Or is this that thing where everyone turns their lights out?
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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 […]
