Science and reality
Within 60 days of each other, Presidents Obama and Xi Jinping each released detailed plans to curb coal power plants. Has the world gone completely sane?
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Chile's massive Thursday earthquake was the largest in the world for 2015, but so far death and destruction have been limited.
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A tide gauge less than 100 miles from the quake's epicenter has logged wave heights in excess of 14 feet.
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An 8.3 moment magnitude quake struck northwest of Santiago.
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Tens of thousands of acres in California are burning, releasing clouds of smoke that affect people across the state.
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The Valley Fire burned 61,000 acres in 17 hours, but it's neither the beginning nor the end of California's 2015 fire season.
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A newly found gene is the key to breeding plants that can get harmful TNT contamination out of the ground.
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If you want to help the struggling recycling industry, you should stop throwing away plastic bags.
The post Listen Up America: You Need to Learn How to Recycle. Again. appeared first on WIRED.
Since May, over 30 whales have washed ashore in the Gulf of Alaska
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Without rain, California's farmers have been forced to suck water from the ground. But they've pulled so much that parts of the state are sinking at incredible rates.
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