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Australia responds to shark attacks by … attacking sharks first

Reacting to an uptick in fatal great white shark attacks, the country’s Conservative Party has decided to kill any shark that comes anywhere near the beach.

Jim Meyer Uncategorized August 12, 2014

Big Energy has tried to turn people of color against solar power since forever

Happily, more and more people are seeing through the hype.

Brentin Mock Technology November 14, 2014

ExxonMobil claims it’s the savior of the world’s poor

Oil giants are now trying to present themselves as poverty fighters and defenders of human wellbeing.

Michael T. Klare Technology January 10, 2015

Rotten odors rouse citizen sleuths in Pennsylvania gas patch

Since government won't monitor whether the oil-and-gas boom is wrecking air quality, volunteers have stepped in. Now their work is getting peer-reviewed and published.

Heather Smith Technology November 3, 2014

The results of a tailing pond breach at Imperial Metals Corp's gold and copper mine at Mount Polley in central British Columbia are pictured August 4, 2014

This giant Canadian mine spill doesn’t make us feel good about Alaska’s Pebble Mine

A copper tailings pond discharged more than 10 million cubic meters of waste into nearby water, threatening an important salmon spawning ground.

Darby Minow Smith Technology August 8, 2014

What it’s like to have 30 oil & gas wells as neighbors

If you're driving through the tightly packed residential neighborhood in south central L.A., you're liable to miss the whole operation.

Tara Lohan Technology October 24, 2014

Vegas tops the list of the country’s worst heat islands

On a real scorcher of a day, the mercury downtown can roar 24 degrees above the temps in the surrounding desert. Other cities are feeling the heat, too.

Greg Hanscom Cities August 21, 2014

This man wrote hundreds of letters warning politicians not to lie. It worked.

Political scientist Brendan Nyhan explains why fact-checking keeps candidates honest … sometimes.

Chris Mooney Politics September 12, 2014

Now Google Street View is mapping gas pipeline leaks

Experiments by Google, Environmental Defense Fund, and university scientists reveal the huge amounts of methane that leak from pipelines beneath some cities.

John Upton Climate & Energy July 16, 2014

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