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Science — especially climate research — needs a ‘sunshine’ law
Ten years ago, I worked in the United States Senate and helped draft and pass the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. The law requires companies to report monies and gifts they give physicians, which are known to influence what doctors prescribe or promote. Thanks to the Sunshine Act, you can look up doctors on a public […]
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Bitcoin is hard to understand. So is its carbon footprint.
A new study finds that Bitcoin does not consume as much energy as previously estimated.
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Your weather tweets are showing your climate amnesia
A database of 2 billion tweets shows people get so used to weather extremes they might stop noticing them. That's bad for action on climate change.
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Doomsday in Antarctica just got postponed a little
If we act on climate change now, there's a chance we can avoid total collapse of massive Antarctic glaciers this century.
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Trump halted a study of coal’s health effects in Appalachia
This is bad news for people living near mountaintop coal removal sites.
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Supervolcanoes: The secret to a battery-powered future?
Researchers found lithium deposits in a Yellowstone supervolcano.
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This tiny program keeps our coasts safe. Trump’s gutting it, of course.
NOAA's Sea Grant prepares the country for rising seas and other threats.
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Two middle-schoolers raised $10,000 to help save a 500-million-year old species
The nautilus, a type of mollusk, been around since dinosaurs were alive.
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Climate change causes monster patch of microscopic plants in the Arctic
There aren’t supposed to be microscopic plants called phytoplankton blooming in the Arctic right now — usually that doesn’t happen until after the ice melts in the summer, i.e. months from now. But a research team has just discovered a huge, 60-mile-long, three-foot-thick slick of phytoplankton where no phytoplankton should be. It was “like finding […]
