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As Romney mocks climate, Obama mocks Arctic
President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise…is to help you and your family. – Willard Mitt Romney, August 30, […]
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Hurricane Katrina caused a baby dolphin boom
Hurricane Katrina was irredeemably terrible for everyone involved — except, it turns out, baby dolphins. (And presumably adult dolphins, who got to enjoy making baby dolphins.) In the years after […]
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One-fifth of creepy spineless animals could disappear forever
Most species are spineless piles of goo. That’s not a value judgment: About 80 percent of the world’s species are invertebrates, which actually do lack spines. Metaphorically, though, it is […]
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Earthquake! Quick, everyone into the $6,000 earthquake-proof bed!
When there is an earthquake most people run to a table or a doorway to ride it out. But if the people at Shinto Industries have their way, the new […]
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Free-market hypocrisy: Why do we hold renewables to different standards?
Calls for a "free-market" approach to energy ignore the fact that recent incentives for renewables are no different than the perks fossil fuels and nuclear energy have enjoyed for decades.
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Energy and environment in the GOP platform: They said what?
We read the whole 62-page Republican platform so you don't have to. Here are the good bits, by which we mean the bad bits.
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Tiny bugs are pooping in your face
You know what? We changed our mind. Stop saving the planet and BURN IT. Because we don’t want to live in a world where rosacea is caused by the feces-bloated […]
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The hurricane (Isaac) is dead. Long live the hurricane (Kirk).
And waiting in the wings -- Leslie, the second-earliest "L" storm in history.
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8-year-old gets rich off whale vomit and decides to open an animal shelter
Charlie Naysmith is the sort of kid who, when he unexpectedly finds a rock-like substance worth tens of thousands of dollars, donates it all to help animals.
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Al Gore condemns media for dropping the ball on climate change coverage
The Goracle had some harsh words for the press after its tepid reaction to news of record Arctic ice melt.
