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Tiny squid may be killing themselves by having too much sex
Marathon three-hour sex sessions may SOUND like a good idea, but if you’re a 2.8-inch long southern dumpling squid, it may tire you out so much that you can’t feed or protect yourself, says a new study.
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How’s the weather, America? July 18 edition
Once again, there's so much terrible weather news that we cram it all into one post.
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China’s per-person carbon emissions rival Europe’s, but U.S. is still on top
In the great Olympics of global warming, we're still taking home the gold.
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The highest low temperature ever recorded: 107 degrees
Not that I was under any illusions that Death Valley, Calif., is a temperate place to live, but this is nuts: The overnight LOW on July 11-12 was 107 degrees […]
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Watch the formation of an iceberg twice the size of Manhattan
These images from NASA’s Earth Observatory show Greenland’s Petermann Glacier calving an iceberg — watch the lower right quadrant of the image to see the split go from a hairline […]
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Slow Ride Stories: Kick-starting conversations about climate change
Two filmmakers are touring the back roads of America this summer, talking to ordinary people about climate change. Their hope: to change the way we talk about, and deal with, the most pressing issue of our time.
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In 2012, 90 percent of record temperatures were record highs
According to this chart from Climate Central, record lows are about to be an artifact of the past. This year, 90 percent of daily record temperatures in the lower 48 […]
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‘Canopy Meg’ wants you to care about the rainforest
Amazing gravity-defying botanist talks about flying snakes, tree sloths, and the 98 percent of life in the rainforest that we don’t even know exists yet.
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Climate reality bites: Gen-Xers don’t care much about global warming
Members of Generation X are responding to climate change with a big, collective shrug of indifference, according to a new survey.
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Mayor Stubbs, cat, celebrates 15 years in office
Talkeetna, Alaska, isn’t going to the dogs. It’s going to the cats — or really, one cat, which has been mayor of the town for 15 years. Mayor Stubbs was […]
