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Hurricane Isaac leaves tar balls, oiled animals on Louisiana beaches
BP says it's not entirely clear who's to blame. (Really.)
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Old Testament theme park uses donkeys as wifi hotspots, just like in the Bible
If you find yourself at the Israeli biblical theme park Kfar Kedem and you see a flashing light, don’t be alarmed — you are not having a hallucination brought on by Talmudic scholarship and hummus. You are seeing a wireless router affixed to a donkey.
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BP thinks the Gulf is copacetic. The government disagrees. Tony Hayward doesn’t care.
BP is claiming in a civil suit that it's pretty much done cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico. The federal government's response: Like hell.
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New project in Oregon could make wave power a reality
High-tech buoys from Ocean Power Technologies may be the first system that can provide consistent wave energy to the grid.
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Utah OKs nation’s first tar-sands mine
Look, America, you're getting tar-sands oil whether you like it or not.
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Chicago’s notorious Fisk and Crawford coal plants go offline
Chicago will no longer be the only major U.S. city with two coal plants operating within its borders, and that means vast improvements in the health of local residents.
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Curtain rises on California’s planned carbon market
From big emitters to tomato tinners, over 100 California businesses got their first taste of cap-and-trade. Here's how it works.
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These are basically treasure maps for renewable energy
Detailed maps of the best places for solar, wind, and geothermal are basically guaranteed to make you rich.
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People think cloud computing involves actual clouds
We know that people often confuse weather and climate, but apparently a lot of people also confuse weather and weather-related metaphors.
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Frackers’ faulty concrete leads to methane in Pennsylvania wells
But don't worry, folks. The industry says this rarely happens. So the odds that your water is flammable are pretty low.