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Meet the lake so polluted that spending an hour there would kill you
Thanks to a secret government nuclear facility, Lake Karachay may be the most polluted spot on the planet.
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What can climate hawks expect from the first presidential debate?
Moderator Jim Lehrer isn't likely to ask a direct question about climate change, but you can bet that energy policy will come up. David Roberts offers a primer.
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Thanks to climate change, Texas is up to its ears in dead crickets
Texas is having a very big problems with crickets and it's not just that the crickets are really gross, it's that when they die, they smell really bad.
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Clean energy showdown in Arizona
National politics tends to suck up all the attention. But a battle going on in Arizona could have a huge effect on the future of solar power.
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At the debate, listen for the climate silence
A new campaign aims to mobilize voters who want to see the presidential candidates take climate concerns seriously.
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Undecided voters not undecided about climate change
A Yale survey found that most swing voters know human-caused climate change is real and want the government to do something about it.
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Cities Getting Local Energy Choice with Aggregation
Over 200 Illinois towns helped cut their citizens’ electric bills in 2012, and some even achieved 100% renewable energy, thanks to a state law that lets cities choose their electricity […]
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Now you can get text messages from a cow’s vagina
It's getting harder to tell when dairy cows are in heat. But never fear, farmers! Now their genitals can text you.
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For you hipster entomologists, here’s a caterpillar that looks just like bacon
Supposedly this weird living bacon is actually a moth caterpillar. Made of bacon.
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Notorious Northern Virginia coal plant officially retires
On a scorching hot day last July, I stood on the deck of a boat on the Potomac River and introduced Michael R. Bloomberg, philanthropist and mayor of New York City, […]
