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Greenpeace: Apple Fuels iCloud With Dirty, Dirty Coal

As worldwide demand for data storage skyrockets, so do the power needs of the servers where all our digital archives live. While some companies (like Facebook) have made great progress in ditching...

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Smarter Grid: Greening the Largest Machine on Earth

In the last couple years the Obama administration has pumped billions into cutting-edge clean energy tech. But these all share a common problem: plugging into an electric grid that is mostly unchanged...

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More Big Wildfires May Be Future Norm for US

An international team of scientists discovered that climate change will disrupt fire patterns across over 80 percent of the globe by the end of the century, possibly making massive wild fires like the...

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Greenland Hit by Dramatic Ice Thaw

In a five-day period in July, Greenland experienced an "extreme melt event," causing some 97 percent of its surface to thaw.

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Natural Gas Fracking Industry May Be Paying Off Scientists

In the latest battle over the basic facts of fracking in America, the provost of the University of Texas announced he would re-examine a report by a UT professor that said fracking was safe for...

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Despite Extreme Melt, Signs of Hope Emerge for Greenland Ice

A new study in Science paints a more optimistic picture of Greenland's melting ice sheet than a recent "extreme melt" event suggests. Even with global warming, the ice sheet may be able to slow its...

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Video: The Hidden Environmental Costs of Hamburgers

Americans love hamburgers -- we each eat an average of three a week. But what are the hidden costs? An animated short calculates the toll of greenhouse gases.

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