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Sea Level Rise Driven by Crucial Ice Sheet Could Be 30% Higher
Photo: Jeremy Harbeck (AP) Look out world—the ice sheet is coming. New research says that the total collapse of a…
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‘Tesla’ for Cows? The Wild, Dubious Plan to Feed Cows Seaweed
Imagine a perfect burger: juicy, grilled to perfection … and, somehow devoid of the guilt of methane emissions wrecking our…
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25,000 Barrels of Suspected DDT Found Off the California Coast
Heat map showing the concentration of targets found on the seafloor. Image: Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego…
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Bolsonaro Cuts Amazon Protection Budget After Promising Increase
View of a burnt area of forest in Altamira, Para state, Brazil, oin the Amazon basin, on August 27, 2019.Photo:…
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Could the World Ever Run Entirely on Renewable Energy?
Illustration: Benjamin Currie/Gizmodo Giz AsksGiz AsksIn this Gizmodo series, we ask questions about everything and get answers from a variety…
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Beavers Take Down Canada Internet Service After Chewing Cables
Photo: Pablo Cozzaglio (Getty Images) Rascally beavers took down internet service for about 900 customers in a remote Canadian community…
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California Commits to Phasing Out Oil Extraction by 2045
Photo: David McNew (Getty Images) California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a directive Friday that sets an aspirational 2045 deadline to halt…
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What the US’s ‘Fair Share’ of Emissions Reductions Looks Like
A resident sits outside destroyed houses after Typhoon Vamco hit on Nov. 14, 2020 in Rodriguez, Philippines.Photo: Ezra Acayan (Getty…
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Montana Legislator Introduces Bill Targeting Environmentalists
The coal-fired power plant in Colstrip, Montana.Photo: Matt Brown (AP) A fight is brewing in Montana over legislation that, if…
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Brags She Read All 14 Pages of the Green New Deal
Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images) Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene—the QAnon-loving bigot who ranks as possibly the furthest-right member of…
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