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The New York Times’ unwarranted attack on my air conditioner
I'm sorry if I took this a little personally.
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Loud, grumpy parrot is back from the brink of extinction, and it wants to have sex with your head
The kakapo is probably the best parrot. It has the face and personality of Walter Matthau and regularly tries to get it on with human heads. What's not to like?
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Some like it hot (or cold): How weather affects carbon emissions
We need more nuanced ways of figuring out which countries are doing well on carbon. A new paper offers emissions rankings that take local climate into account.
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Finally, a good use for drones: Catching poachers
Conservationists are taking a page from the U.S. government in the fight against poaching — they’re sending in the drones. Already in use in Indonesia and soon to be in […]
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Flock of 5,000 ducks stops traffic in city of 6 million people
Taizhou lies 190 miles south of Shanghai and has 6 million people, putting its size at “somewhere in between Los Angeles and New York City” on a U.S. scale and […]
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Today in weather events that are clearly not related to climate change
What could be causing all of these wildfires, floods, and heat waves? We may never know. It's not global warming, though. We know that.
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50-million-year-old turtles having sex
Scientists in Germany have found fossils of turtles mating that are nearly 50 million years old. That makes them the oldest fossils of vertebrates going at it that we’ve found […]
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Look at this picture of the Arctic now, because it’s probably your last chance
This image (click to embiggen, click here to embiggen A LOT) was stitched together from photos taken by NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite. It shows the Arctic in all its glory […]
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Updates from the Rio Earth Summit, day one
We'll keep this updated as announcements are made over the course of the day.
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Scientists create Facebook for great tits
We know that more people than like to admit it troll Facebook to check out ladies, but scientists have actually created a social network that they use for nothing but […]
