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Like Apples and Radioactive Oranges
Claims that nuclear energy can reduce oil use are largely hokum President Bush hearts nuclear — or in the argot of the day, nucular — claiming that a boost in […]
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Sunny Size Up
World’s largest solar power plant planned for Portugal The world’s largest solar power station, which would cover over 600 acres and could produce up to 116 megawatts of electricity, is […]
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Oil Really Is a Lubricant
Diverse groups, unlikely allies join fight for energy independence Military officials, environmental activists, and others from across the political spectrum are speaking up about the need for radical change in […]
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An interview with longtime anti-nuclear activist Helen Caldicott
Helen Caldicott. Photo: Greg Barrett. In 1971, Helen Caldicott had an epiphany: all life on earth could end at any moment, simply because a few pig-headed people imagined they could […]
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They Did It Norway
Norway’s high gas and auto taxes lead to lower gas consumption Americans, who view cheap oil as a divine birthright and throw a tantrum when gas prices exceed $2, would […]
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Overwhelming Scientific Consensus Grows Overwhelminger
Climate really changing, oceans reveal to researchers Hey, did you know that the globe is warming? Really and for true! A new study by researchers at NASA, the U.S. Department […]
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Access of Evil
Gas drilling limited by equipment, workers — not access to federal land To hear the Bush administration tell it, domestic energy production is limited by lack of access to federal […]
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Little-known facts from a country on the edge of your consciousness
293,966 — population of Iceland3 4,117,827 — population of Kentucky2 10 — percentage of Icelanders who believe elves “definitely” exist4 0 — number of successful elf surveys conducted in Kentucky […]
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Shock and Thaw
New Yorker launches three-part exploration of climate change Writer Elizabeth Kolbert must have single-handedly accelerated global warming with the jet fuel she burned visiting the Arctic, Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, and […]
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Ice Hassles
Antarctic glaciers rapidly melting Wanna travel to Antarctica, but worried about all that ice? Worry no more. On the Antarctic Peninsula, a 1,200-mile-long mountain chain 600 miles south of Argentina, […]
