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Air pollution at home could lower kids’ GPAs
In a study of almost 2,000 kids in El Paso, Texas, researchers found a strong correlation between air pollution and academic performance.
Musk’s new Tesla gets extra credit in respected auto test
The Model S P85D scored a logically impossible 103 out of 100 in a Consumer Reports evaluation.
Scientists try to replicate climate denier findings and fail
Peer-reviewed studies that support skeptic talking points contain questionable physics and shoddy analysis.
Famous folks call for noisy climate activism ahead of Paris talks
Naomi Klein, Desmond Tutu, Vivienne Westwood, and others demand mass civil climate action.
A Hawaiian clean energy plant makes electricity from seawater and ammonia
Our oceans hold a lot of unharnessed energy. Here's one way to capture it.
We’re killing off all the animals and they are making it really difficult for us to save them
Scientists want to artificially inseminate endangered species, but that's easier said than done.
We’re making massive waste islands in the sea
A new NASA visualization shows how trash accumulates in oceanic garbage patches.
Lifting the crude oil export ban would be terrible for the climate
Congress may vote as soon as next month on whether to lift the ban, which has been in place since 1975.
Scientists say we’re “super” good at killing stuff
Compared to other predators, humans are like ruthless hunting machines.
Which method of raising cows is the most climate-friendly?
A new study compares the global warming potential of different beef production practices.
This company has 400 people hyped to build Elon Musk’s hyperloop
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies plans to break ground on a test track next year.
Thomas Friedman: The world is hot
Which is true. But calls for shared ecosystems are naive in a world of ISIS.
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