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This image of the Colorado wildfire scar will blow your mind
This image from NASA (click to embiggen) shows the scar from the Waldo Canyon fire in Colorado. It’s a false-color image — the fields aren’t actually running red with blood […]
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Win-win: Ancient fungus that ended coal formation could boost biofuel production
Genomics researchers have stumbled upon an incredible discovery: The same ancestral fungus that ended coal formation millennia ago may now be able to boost bioenergy production.
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Selma, Montgomery, and Climate Change
(Reposted from Huffington Post) How weird would it have been if, in the 1960s, the press had reported from Selma, Birmingham, and Montgomery like this: “Selma, Al. March 7 (AP) […]
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The suburbs are still winning
We reported last week that many large American cities are growing at a faster rate than their suburbs. But a closer look at the numbers is not so encouraging.
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Why our biggest moral challenge doesn’t act like one
Al Gore tried to invoke the moral imperative for climate action. “It’s not about right and left;” he said, “it’s about right and wrong.” Climate deniers cynically pounced on Gore’s […]
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Me, on The Alyona Show, talking climate and wildfires
On Friday, I was on The Alyona Show to talk about wildfires and climate change. I apologize to viewers that my head is so enormous. I mean, it’s naturally enormous, […]
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What those extreme temperatures look like on the ground
Roads buckling, farmers fainting, air-conditioners going kaput, and Instagram going down -- all effects of the scorching weather.
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Heat records melting across the U.S.
The summer of the future is here today. Last week, 1,924 high-temperature records in the U.S. were broken or tied.
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Overturning the ‘15% Rule’ Can Expand Distributed Generation
If you haven’t heard yet, there’s a “rule” that precludes distributed renewable energy projects from supplying more than 15% of the power to most “distribution circuits” (part of the low-voltage […]
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Friday music blogging: David Mayfield
Earlier this year, a friend of mine casually mentioned that he’d been enjoying the David Mayfield Parade album. This friend happens to be a professional music critic, so I tracked […]
