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Will global warming ruin football in the South?
In a hotter world, watching and playing football outdoors in the South will be almost unbearable.
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Tar-sands development pushes Canada to poison wolves
In Canada, caribou herds are declining, in part, environmental groups say, because of tar-sands development. The Canadian government's response? Kill the wolves.
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Puerto Rico to U.S.: ‘Please eat these iguanas’
Puerto Rico needs to get rid of 4 MILLION invasive iguanas, some of which can grow to be six feet long. Short of passing a law requiring every man, woman, and child on the island to eat one iguana, what do you do about that volume of unwanted critters? Well, Puerto Rico is taking what’s […]
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Why climate change will make you love big government
Natural disasters like the ones we saw so many of in 2011 -- and will see more of with a changing climate -- remind us just how important it is to have a functional government.
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Antarctica’s about to lose a New York City-sized chunk
Normally when icebergs split off from glaciers, it’s called “calving,” but I think it would be fair to say that Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier is about to have a cow. Pine Island Glacier, which is the continent’s fastest-melting glacier and unusually well-situated to contribute to sea level rise, is getting set to shed a chunk […]
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10-year-old discovers new energy-storing molecule by accident
Fifth-grader Clara Lazen was just messing around with a molecule modeling kit in class, trying to construct a stable molecule that followed basic chemistry rules. What she ended up with was a completely novel molecular structure, and a coauthor credit in the resulting journal article. Man, what were YOU discovering when you were 10? Masturbation […]
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Risky business: States require insurers to plan for climate change
After a record-setting year of climate disasters in the U.S., insurance companies in three states will now have to assess risks related to climate change.
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Killer tale: Lessons from a lonely orca
When a lone killer whale started befriending humans in a Canadian cove, he sparked a controversy over how we interact with animals. We talked to the journalists who filmed the story in the Ryan Reynolds-narrated documentary The Whale.
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The Wall Street Journal’s willful climate lies
The WSJ opinion page spreading climate misinformation is nothing new. But its latest op-ed promotes straight-up lies that editors and scientists must know are false.
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Kristen Bell loses her mind over a sloth
OK, real talk for a second? This is almost certainly how I would react if a sloth came to my birthday party:
