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Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant to shutter
More bad news for the nuclear industry: Entergy Corp. announced Tuesday that it will power down the plant next year.
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Wind turbines don’t hurt property values
The most comprehensive study to date finds that the construction of wind farms near homes does not lower home sale prices.
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Drill next door: Here’s what it looks like when fracking moves in
Drilling rigs pop up in suburban neighborhoods like mushrooms overnight.
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Beer vs. oil: Beer wins
A Michigan microbrewery has defeated an oil company, proving that there is some good left in the world.
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Nike built a store in China out of trash
DVDs turned into foldable ceiling panels, water bottles turned into tension cables, and cans turned into metal joints.
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New app lets you hack the streets
It's time to take the streets back from the the transportation engineers -- even if it's only for pretend.
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Shooting the well: The petroleum torpedoes of the early oil fields
Almost immediately after we started drilling wells, we started fracturing the rocks underground to increase the flow of fossil fuels.
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What’s behind the natural gas boom?
An animated look at why production has skyrocketed in recent years.
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These giant singing flowers are also creating solar power
This installation of solar panels could have come right out of a Dr. Seuss book.
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Food for bots: Distinguishing the novel from the knee-jerk in the GMO debate
What are the risks of genetically modified food? And how can critics avoid bias when they study them? We take a deeper look.