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Typhoons and flooding soak Philippines and China
The worst flooding in years hits Manila, while China is battered by a series of typhoons.
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Ted Cruz, Tea Party’s new Latino hero, is a bit loony on green issues
For a guy being touted as an intellectual, Cruz has some out-there views on toilets and Agenda 21, and some confused views on Keystone and cap-and-trade.
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Here’s a tiny gorilla getting a checkup — and here’s what he looks like now
This picture of a baby gorilla named Yakini is from 1999, but it’s been going around again, because the internet’s love is eternal. At least, the internet’s love for a […]
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The hunger wars in our future: Heat, drought, rising food costs, and global unrest
The physical effects of climate change will prove catastrophic. But the social effects -- food riots, state collapse, mass migrations, and conflicts of every sort -- could prove even more disruptive and deadly.
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Gas prices explained by way of a neighborhood barbecue
Why does the price we pay for auto fuel spike and dive so unpredictably? You may find the answer in the burger on your grill.
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Sophisticated energy markets maybe not great at Twitter
A fake tweet yesterday caused crude oil futures to rise more than 1 percent. Oops.
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Video shows failed attempts to avert nuclear catastrophe after Japanese tsunami
A newly released video shows utility officials trying to figure out what the hell to do after the Japanese tsunami hits the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. Watch a snippet.
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100 years ago, people thought that today we’d commute by whalebus
Public Domain Review collected a bunch of turn-of-the-century visions of the year 2000. Whalebuses? Flying cabs? Personal prop planes? Yes, please!
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Please enjoy this turtle with a mohawk
This turtle is dealing with endangerment in much the same way many humans deal with adolescence: He's gone punk.
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This hedgehog photo looks like a scene from a fairy tale
Photographer Cath Schneider captured this photo of her daughter and the hedgehog that lives in their garden, when the girl brought it a plate of lactose-free milk to drink and […]
