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Another reason to bug out: Drought puts electrical production at risk
Traditional fossil-fuel-based power generation requires an enormous amount of water. No water, no power.
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Are more colorful lobsters a bad sign?
More and more unusually colored lobsters are being reported, as stocks in Maine spike and those in Connecticut plummet.
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Green investment pays off for basically everyone except coal-based power companies
Green investment increases the resale value of a house by 9 percent; it pays the government 10 percent on its solar tax credit.
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Aquifer discovered in arid Namibia could yield 400 years of water — or 15
A fantastic, life-saving discovery in one of the driest countries in the world also bears a large amount of risk.
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Residents of Key West have a choice: dengue fever or GMO mosquitoes?
Oh, we forgot one. The existing solution to the mosquito problem is widespread use of insecticide. Probably not much more appealing.
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China’s per-person carbon emissions rival Europe’s, but U.S. is still on top
In the great Olympics of global warming, we're still taking home the gold.
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Japanese stage mass protest against nuclear power
One month after a damning report blaming human error for the Fukushima disaster, as many as 100,000 Japanese protest restarting use of nuclear.
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Wham, bam, goodbye dam: Fish get down after river opens up
The removal of a dam from a river in northwest Washington proves remarkably successful at encouraging fish repopulation.