Climate Technology
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Your old flash drive could bring subversive media to North Korea
The USB sticks are loaded with defector interviews and Hollywood movies before being smuggled across the border.
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White House proposes millions for big water innovations
The Obama administration's new budget proposal would encourage smarter water use and monitoring.
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We’re telling outer space all about our biggest Earth mistakes
An Edinburgh nonprofit will beam our messages to the North Star later this year.
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Why are we still losing so much rainforest in Indonesia? A hypothesis
Who's to blame for last year's devastating fires in Indonesia -- big corporations? Small farmers? Or an endangered feudal system?
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This solar water purifier is a simple and powerful tool for fighting climate change
Heating and cleaning water with the sun should be a no-brainer.
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This Chipotle conspiracy theory is the craziest thing we’ve read all day
Welcome to the internet, where you can say anything.
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A lack of battery recycling could be hurting this important bacterium
We better be smarter about disposal if we’re going to use more lithium ion batteries.
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Watch out, corporations: Space detectives are watching you ruin the planet
Satellite images are catching illegal activity wherever it occurs, from pollution to deforestation to illegal fishing.
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Fracking waste more likely to be located in poor communities and neighborhoods of color
A new study finds a disturbing trend in South Texas’ Eagle Ford.
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Will climate change move agriculture indoors? And will that be a good thing?
The story of a hot indoor-ag startup offers a window onto the potential and the pitfalls of the new greenhouse-tech movement.