Grist List
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How climate change is making the internet faster
This new line will speed up the connection between Europe and Asia by 30 percent, and will reduce the cable distance between those two cities from 15,000 miles to 10,000.
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This house is so tiny, it’s practically two-dimensional
Here's a house that's like a wall with some empty spaces in which you can eat, cook, and sleep.
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Forest scientists pit trees against each other in fight for survival
In Europe, forest scientists are setting up a kind of Hunger Games for trees. The goal, the BBC reports, is to find out which trees will survive in the harsh world to come:
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Critical List: North Sea gas leak poses oil spill risk; Chinese oil company is larger than ExxonMobil
A look at the big news of the day.
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One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss
Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.
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Would you like a bamboo keyboard? Of course you would
The iZen bamboo keyboard is 92 percent bamboo, because normally keyboards are made from plastic, and plastic is made from oil and we'd rather not.
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Tim DeChristopher put in ‘isolated confinement’
Climate activist Tim DeChristopher, still serving his sentence for disrupting a government auction of oil leases, has been transferred to isolated confinement. He’s been there since March 9.
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Lorax statue lifted from Seuss estate
Someone stole a statue of the Lorax from Dr. Seuss’ estate. The sculpture, made by Dr. Seuss’ stepdaughter, weighs 300 pounds, so whoever stole it must have been really strong, brought friends, and really wanted the thing. The Los Angeles Times reports: The thief or thieves apparently rolled the statue and stump down a hill […]
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Critical List: Fukushima will take decades to decommission; North Sea gas leak
Is Fukushima news ever positive? A new assessment of damage at the plant shows levels of radiation higher than expected, which means decommissioning the plant could take decades. Building cleantech requires certain resources — rare earth metals, water, biomass — that are getting scarce. Mohamed Nasheed, the deposed Maldives president, is doing a media tour […]
