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Shell starts drilling, hasn’t ruined the Arctic yet
More than 24 hours after Shell started drilling off the coast of Alaska, the company has yet to spill oil all over everything.
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Injured bald eagle gets new 3-D printed beak
A team of scientists, engineers, and a dentist designed a nylon polymer beak that would perfectly replace the eagle's lost upper mandible.
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U.S. sees a spike in solar installation over last three months
The 742 megawatts of solar power installed during the summer is the second-largest amount installed in one quarter.
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Small-scale, distributed renewables: Tiny, but growing fast around the world
Small-scale, locally owned power (mainly solar) is spreading quickly and has enormous potential.
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Shocker: The oil that Isaac washed up on the Gulf Coast is from the BP spill
Literally no one saw this coming. BP, for example, was staggered.
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Utilities beat back community solar bill in California
A bill that would have let anyone in California buy power from small-scale, local renewable projects was killed by big investor-owned utilities.
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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.
