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After not seeing one for 33 years, Japanese government finally declares river otters extinct
When you truly love somebody that’s gone missing, you never admit that she’s gone, even if you’ve seen neither hide nor hair of her for 33 years. So now we […]
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Vladimir Putin dressed as a bird to save endangered cranes
There are 20 white cranes left in the world. But for one special day, there were 21. OK, the extra crane wasn’t really a crane. It was Russian President Vladimir […]
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Good news: The nuclear apocalypse will kill everything but beer
Imagine there’s a huge nuclear explosion and almost everyone you know is dead. Sure, things are bad. But you can still get a beer. Alex Wellerstein at the Nuclear Secrecy […]
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New documentary lets you watch glaciers disappear
Anyone who is not a raging moron knows that glaciers are melting really fast. We should probably be constantly consumed by worrying about our waterlogged future, yet we somehow manage […]
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Moving the Kentucky Wildcats Beyond Coal
This week, I spoke at the University of Kentucky, home to a polluting coal plant, lots of coal industry money, and a student body hungry to move beyond coal and […]
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Stop what you’re doing and look at this disco dancing polar bear
The newest threat to polar bear health and well-being: Saturday Night Fever. And the boogie-woogie flu. We can probably live with that.
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How extreme weather supersizes global food price tags
A new Oxfam report argues that previous research grossly underestimates future food prices by ignoring the impact of severe weather shocks to the global food system.
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Purse full of wine is so classy it hurts
If you are the type of Classy Lady who drinks wine, you don’t want to have to wait until you take the wine out of the special wine gift bag […]
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Space shuttle’s final journey will kill 400 trees
Space shuttle Endeavour has never been the greenest of projects — I mean, consider how much gas it takes to circle the planet 4,600 times. Sure, blah blah the majesty of the […]
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The futility of climatespotting: No matter what he says, Obama can’t make big moves on climate
Climate hawks have been reduced to "climatespotting," counting the number of times "climate change" is uttered by a politician. Given political gridlock, it's a pointless exercise.
