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Going ‘Zero Carbon’ Is All the Rage. But Will it Slow Climate Change?
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Facebook Unveils Cryptocurrency Despite Privacy Concerns
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Grand Jury Indicts Four Men on Charges of Trafficking ‘Ghost Guns’ in NJ
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Bitcoin Causing Carbon Dioxide Emissions Comparable to Las Vegas or Hamburg
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Japan Knife Attack Makes Case for Gun Restrictions
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‘We All Owe Al Gore an Apology’: More People See Climate Change in Record Flooding
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Going Mobile Could Get More Americans to Vote
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Maine’s Governor Signs Nation’s Strictest Internet Privacy Protection Bill
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Our Ecological Catastrophe Demands New Ways of Thinking
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Mark Cuban’s Simple Solution for Income Inequality in the US
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Measuring Carbon Emissions From Space Will Help Bring Pollution Back Down to Earth
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Gun Violence Is a National Security Threat: Janet Napolitano
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Salesforce Says It Won’t Work With Retailers That Sell Semi-Automatic Weapons
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Why Hundreds of Puffins Washed Up Dead on an Alaskan Beach
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Patent Shows Just How Much Creepier Alexa Can Get
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