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Watch an orphaned baby bat learn to fly
I am not ashamed to admit that I wept openly at this. The tiny batling! The completely unfair emotionally manipulative soundtrack! The fact that I haven’t had my coffee yet!
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Critical List: EU bans Iranian oil; snowy owls descend from Arctic
The European Union won’t be importing any more oil from Iran. President Obama’s going to lay out an energy agenda on Tuesday at the State of the Union. Thousands of snowy owls are descending from the Arctic to fly over places like Kansas and Missouri (and to deliver messages from Arctic Circle-based wizards, of course). […]
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Is the anti-Keystone campaign good or bad for greens?
Here's a roundup of different views on Keystone from greens, energy analysts, bloggers, and one flack for a beer company.
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Old dog, Newt tricks: Gingrich’s views on climate, EPA, and ‘green conservatism’
Gingrich has been all over the map on climate change. Catch the highlights and revisit his 2010 interview with Grist.
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A place for the animals [VIDEO]
The Perennial Plate crew takes a break from meat-focused adventures and spends some time at an animal sanctuary.
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It’s Penguin Awareness Day! Please be aware of these penguins
So apparently today is Penguin Awareness Day? I’d be inclined to think that any species that’s been the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary AND an Oscar-winning animated feature film wouldn’t really need an Awareness Day, but whatever, it’s not like anybody’s asking you to post some crazy crap about your bra color on Facebook. All […]
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A Farmville-style game that helps save wetlands
This student-created Farmville-type game benefits real wetlands conservation groups.
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Critical List: Vermont can’t shutter nuke plant; microbes turn seaweed into biofuel
The EPA will test water in Dimock, PA, and is delivering drinking water to four homes there. Silly Vermont. You wanted to shut down a nuclear plant? Only the federal government can regulate nuclear power! For biofuels, seaweed could be the new corn.
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WWDSS? What would Dr. Seuss say about climate change?
Channeling the good doctor, one writer imagines what he might write about global warming, were he still with us. A little fun with the apocalypse, anyone?
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Climate vigilantes: How to get real facts into media coverage of climate
Climate change is a perfect example of an issue on which reporters should be "truth vigilantes," challenging the faulty "facts" spread by climate skeptics.
