April 2012
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March 2012
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“It sounds like a shot in the arm with no downside”
– City council president Blair Patton in Choteau, Montana, whose town is gearing up for an economic boom coming from a new equipment plant supplying machinery to Canada’s tar sands. Quoted in the Billings Gazette.
Mar 13th
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WatchWatch
Time lapse in Joshua Tree National Park.
Mar 6th
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Mar 6th
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Mar 1st
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February 2012
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Feb 28th
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Feb 27th
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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“More than 22 percent of the water consumed worldwide is imported as virtual...”
–  NYTimes Green Blog: “Tracking How the World Guzzles Water,” By Joanna M. Foster
Feb 17th
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“Rather than continue to fight, we’d much prefer to work on a mutually beneficial...”
–  An excerpt from a letter by Oregon Wild Conservation Director, Steve Pedery, sent to the Oregon Cattlemen’s Association with a proposal to bind the two loggerheads with a single common interest of wolf-friendly beef. 
Feb 16th
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“As part of the fiscal year 2013 budget [PDF] released on Feb. 13, President Obama proposed to eliminate $40 billion in tax breaks for oil and gas producers over the next 10 years. Yesterday, theYale Project on Climate Change reiterated its recent finding that Americans of all political stripes oppose subsidies for “coal, oil, and natural gas companies.” They oppose these subsidies by 70...
Feb 16th
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“Ski resorts self-report substantially more natural snowfall on weekends. Resorts...”
– Wintertime for Deceptive Advertising (PDF), a paper by Dartmouth profs and the National Bureau of Economic Research, explains how the ski industry lies about snowfall on the weekends, to try and get more customers.
Feb 13th
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Feb 13th
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Feb 10th
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“Collectively, women’s magazines—by which I mean the whole field, from fashion...”
– Rosner writes (award-winning stories) for us, too. She’s awesome! Hillary Rosner, Their So-Called Journalism, or What I Saw at the Women’s Mags. Rosner, a freelance science writer and former Knight Fellow at MIT, shares (frustrating) anecdotes about trying to write serious science journalism...
Feb 10th
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Feb 10th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 1st
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January 2012
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December 2011
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USGS creates model predicting maximum size of...
Small earthquakes are a recognized risk of hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking’, a procedure in which companies unlock energy reserves by pumping millions of litres of water underground to fracture shale rock and release the natural gas trapped inside. Researchers now say that they can calculate the highest magnitude earthquake that such an operation could induce — though it won’t...
Dec 12th
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Dec 8th
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IT IS SO WINDY →
latimes: Pasadena and Sierra Madre have declared a state of emergency, with power lines down, trees bouncing as they fall and transformers exploding. Stay safe!
Dec 1st
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Dec 1st
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