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Climate change threatens baby seals
You could probably intuit that climate change would threaten seal pups, being as how they’re vulnerable critters who require cold climates. But just in case you had doubts, new research […]
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Earth Day too committed for you? Celebrate Earth Hour instead
Thanks, global recession: Earth Day gets cut down to Earth Hour. Or is this that thing where everyone turns their lights out?
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Hillary 2016: Will she run — and should greens be psyched about it?
Hillary Clinton has said she'll step down as secretary of state next year if Obama wins a second term. That would give her lots of time to mount a 2016 campaign ...
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The Hunger Games: The world after a climate apocalypse, teen fiction style
The movie version of The Hunger Games, the wildly popular young adult novel set in a future ravaged by climate disasters and food insecurity, comes out this week.
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Freak heat wave makes Obama and Oprah ‘nervous’ about climate
Speaking at a Chicago fundraiser hosted by Oprah, President Obama admitted that the city's heat wave was making him "a little nervous" about global warming.
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Engineer wants to stop Arctic warming with a cloud-whitening machine
Painting your roof white can (maybe) reflect enough heat to save a year’s worth of emissions. So painting the clouds white should be able to reflect enough heat to stop […]
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Cloned baby goat is a super-adorable terrifying monster of science
The Kashmir region of south Asia is economically dependent on cashmere (the homophonic name is not a coincidence). But populations of pashmina goats, which produce the expensive wool, have been […]
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Inhofe: Global warming too costly to be real
Sen. James Inhofe appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show -- and accidentally revealed the real reason he became a climate denier.
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Fruit flies drink when they can’t get laid
When male fruit flies are deprived of sex, they turn to alcohol. Really.
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Navy’s new training area may harm endangered whales
Right whales may get screwed for being in the right place at the wrong time. That’s because the U.S. Navy wants to build a $100 million offshore training range in […]
