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New SimCity has SimClimateChange
SimCity is back (or will be in 2013), and looking pretty damn awesome. And now, along with public approval and municipal funds and Godzilla attacks, there’s a new factor to juggle: Making lousy energy choices can force your city to contend with climate change.
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Philippines police to plant 10 million trees in one year
Police officers in the Philippines are trading their guns and billy clubs for weapons of mass construction: shovels, watering cans, and gardening gloves. That’s because they’re partnering with the country’s Department of Environmental and Natural Resources to combat climate change and deforestation. Their Green Ops mission? Plant 10 million treesin one year. The push to […]
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Oh my god, now there’s a live polar bear cam??
Apologies to anyone who thought they were ever going to get anything accomplished ever again.
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Entire nation of Kiribati has to move to avoid rising seas
The Pacific island nation of Kiribati is moving up in the world -- but not in the good way. The small country is looking to relocate to higher ground in order to escape rising seas brought on by climate change.
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Japanese zoo tries to make endangered alligators have sex
There are only 150 or so Chinese alligators left in the wild, which means that if they had any sense of mortality, these critters would be breeding like crazy. But apparently they don’t have the “survival of the fittest” will to reproduce, or maybe they just have a headache. So one Japanese zoo tried to […]
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Meet the awesome dogs that are stamping out elephant poaching
A park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo employs a lean, mean team of adorable hounds to take on elephant poachers.
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Gimme bomb shelter: FEMA pushes for disaster-proof green buildings
With more climate-induced catastrophes on the way, FEMA chief Craig Fugate calls for “no regrets” building measures like super-insulated walls and reflective roofs. The alternative isn’t pretty.
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Does Romney secretly support ‘climate-change controls’?
Some green-leaning Romney donors seem to think he'll flip-flop on climate action once he gets elected.
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Study: Woolly mammoths are extinct and it’s YOUR FAULT
There’s been some dispute in scientific circles about whether the woolly mammoths died out because of natural variations in climate, or because of the malign influence of roving bands of humans. Turns out it’s a little from column A, a little from column B — meaning that if we actually do manage to clone a […]
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Oh, no big deal, just a LIVE PENGUIN CAM
SeaWorld San Diego set up a live cam starring 300 penguins.
