Why We Need to Fight for Tesla

huffingtonpost.com 4 hours ago

Free market economics is touted by conservatives, and yet almost routinely now we are seeing legislation being introduced designed solely to block the competition that Tesla is bringing to the old...

 
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Farm State Senator Defends 'Monsanto Protection Act'

huffingtonpost.com 6 hours ago

WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans objected to an attempt Thursday to repeal a controversial provision, informally dubbed the "Monsanto Protection Act," that could allow seeds deemed unsafe to be...

 
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King Richard III found in 'untidy lozenge-shaped grave'

sciencedaily.com 2 hours ago

A new article on the archaeology of the Search for Richard III reveals for the first time specific details of the grave dug for King Richard III and discovered under a car park in Leicester.

 
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Someone Said The Magic Word

huffingtonpost.com 14 hours ago

There's one word in the English language that can make dogs stop whatever they're doing and give you their undivided attention. Via Blame It On The Voices

 
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Awful Discovery At Publix

huffingtonpost.com 10 hours ago

A Florida woman is facing dozens of charges of animal abandonment and animal cruelty this week after allegedly leaving a U-Haul filled with 53 animals in the parking lot of a local grocery store...

 
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Bacterium from Canadian high Arctic offers clues to possible life on Mars

sciencedaily.com 3 hours ago

The recent discovery of a bacterium that is able to thrive at –15ºC, the coldest temperature ever reported for bacterial growth, is exciting because it offers clues about some of the necessary...

 
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Screwed by climate change: 10 cities that will be hardest hit

grist.org 17 hours ago

We’ll all feel the heat, but some more than others. Here’s our solute to the cities most at risk as temperatures rise.

 
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The Congressional Budget Office Says We Need A Price On Carbon Emissions

thinkprogress.org 8 hours ago

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) thinks putting off efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions risks “catastrophic” losses for the United States’ economy and society. That’s according to a new...

 
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Racing the Clock and a Storm: A Way of Life in Tornado Alley

nytimes.com 1 hour ago

In the breeding ground of Oklahoma tornadoes, people prepare for the season with the care that the defensive coordinator for their Sooners prepares for the inevitable autumn.

 
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Old Leaves Reveal Cause Of Great Famine

huffingtonpost.com 15 hours ago

By Ann Gibbons More than 1 million people died of starvation and disease during the Irish Potato Famine (also known as the Great Famine), between 1845 and 1852—a watershed event for the Irish that...

 
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LOOK: Hard Times For Penis Cactus

huffingtonpost.com 10 hours ago

This photo is doing swell on Reddit.

 
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WATCH: The Most Stunning San Francisco Video You'll See All Year

huffingtonpost.com 4 hours ago

It's no secret we're suckers for time-lapse videos.

 
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Tesla Repays Government 9 Years Early

huffingtonpost.com 16 hours ago

DETROIT -- Tesla Motors, which makes a highly acclaimed $70,000 electric car, has paid off a startup loan from the U.S. government nine years early...

 
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What is the economic responsibility of corporate America?

guardian.co.uk 10 hours ago

Heidi Moore: Even Fed chairman Ben Bernanke is calling out the private sector for not doing its part to help the frail economy

 
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Tomatoes: The world's favourite fruit only better-tasting and longer-lasting

sciencedaily.com 3 hours ago

Research with GM purple tomatoes could lead to improved varieties of tomatoes with consumer and commercial benefits through conventional breeding or GM...

 
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Surgeon's Remove Giant Hairball From Tiger

huffingtonpost.com 23 May

CLEARWATER, Fla. — It's not unusual for a cat to get a hairball, but a 400-pound tiger needed help from veterinary surgeons in Florida when he couldn't hack up a basketball-size hairball by himself...

 
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WATCH: Celebs Join Matt Damon's 'Toilet Strike'

huffingtonpost.com 4 hours ago

These famous philanthropists really have a can-don't attitude...

 
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Glowing cockroach and social media lacewing in top 10 new species - in pictures

guardian.co.uk 12 hours ago

A glow-in-the-dark cockroach, a harp-shaped carnivorous sponge and the smallest vertebrate on Earth are among the top 10 newly discovered species selected by a global committee of taxonomists

 
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Senate rejects GM food labeling amendment to farm bill

guardian.co.uk 12 hours ago

The Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly rejected an amendment that would allow states to require labeling of genetically modified foods

 
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Descending Into The Mariana Trench: James Cameron's Odyssey

npr.org 7 hours ago

At nearly seven miles below the water's surface, the Mariana Trench is the deepest spot in Earth's oceans...

 
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Earth's mantle affects long-term sea-level rise estimates

sciencedaily.com 10 hours ago

New findings reveal that the US shoreline -- from Virginia to Florida -- has been uplifted by more than 210 feet, meaning less ice melted than expected...

 
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German brewers warn fracking could hurt beer industry

reuters.com 15 hours ago

BERLIN (Reuters) - German brewers have warned Chancellor Angela Merkel's government that any law allowing the controversial drilling technique known as fracking could damage the country's cherished...

 
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Oil Rigs Make Bad Neighbors: Americans Harmed By Oil And Gas Drilling, Seek To Be Heard

thinkprogress.org 14 hours ago

A coalition of people who live and work near the drilling rigs that have allowed the U.S. to see incredible booms in oil and gas production is in Washington, D.C...

 
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India: Power Failures Set Off Protests

nytimes.com 4 hours ago

A blistering heat wave in north and western India has caused widespread electricity cuts and led residents to protest and even attack power company officials and property.

 
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Google buys airborne wind-turbine startup Makani Power

treehugger.com 9 hours ago

Google, already an investor in the clean energy startup, apparently decided that if owning part of it was good, owning all of it would be even better!

 
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Sam Judd: Border patrol's high green fence

nzherald.co.nz 7 hours ago

After a long week at work fuelled by coffee from disposable cups, takeaways and heat-and-eat meals, our ever-growing consumption is somehow excused by separating a few pieces of discarded

 
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U.S. Secretary of the Interior visits Portland, announces 600 jobs tied to youth-employment...

oregonlive.com 4 hours ago

The conservation funding is expected to support at least 50 jobs for youth in Oregon.

 
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U.S. Senator Ron Wyden lays out 'framework' for boosting O&C Lands logging

oregonlive.com 9 hours ago

His proposal, at this point short on details, seeks to boost O&C logging and county revenues that stem from it...

 
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Mount Everest's glaciers shrinking at increasing rate, say researchers

guardian.co.uk 13 hours ago

Glaciers on or around Everest have shrunk 13% in 50 years with the snow line 180 metres higher than it was 50 years ago

 
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This Lobster Looks Like Darth Maul (PHOTOS)

huffingtonpost.com 10 hours ago

Fear attracts the fearful. The strong.

 
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Why Champions Of Climate Legislation Must Also Be Champions Of Job Creation

thinkprogress.org 10 hours ago

It’s probably fair, if crude, to talk about national societies as having “moods,” or going through particular psychological states — especially in economic depressions, when they become more fearful...

 
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You Need Phosphorous to Live—and We're Running Out

motherjones.com 22 May

Industrial farming has played a part in sucking this critical element out of our soil.

 
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Revisit The Rundown, Pre-High Line MePa Of The 90s

ny.curbed.com 12 hours ago

French fashion exec Gregoire Alessandrini has become a de facto chronicler of 1990s New York, when he was a film student student here and constantly toted around his camera....

 
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Getting paid to drive an electric car? It's possible...

treehugger.com 12 hours ago

Bottom line, if you live in a state that has good incentives and you take a short lease, it's possible that you could be paying almost nothing net, or even get paid, to drive an electric car.

 
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Ants and carnivorous plants conspire for mutualistic feeding

sciencedaily.com 16 hours ago

An insect-eating pitcher plant teams up with ants to prevent mosquito larvae from stealing its nutrients, according to new research.

 
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