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The Fossil Fuel Industry Is Ramping up Attacks on Electric Cars

Advances in renewable energy have allowed for a boom in the electric car market, but not everyone's happy about it. The oil industry — while significantly larger than the renewable energy market — is feeling the heat and taking steps to curb the success of electric cars.

February 28, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Science

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Renewable Energy

Researchers Have Directly Tested Two Quantum Computing Technologies

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The computing power of quantum computers is immense compared to what regular desktops or laptops can do, but the technology is still theoretical rather than practical. Researchers are trying to test the computers' specialized setups to uncover new ways to sustain the quantum bits — called "qubits" — that keep them running.

February 28, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Science

The Price of Solar Has Dropped 58% in the Last 5 Years

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Solar energy is now cheaper than retail energy in all but one of Australia's capital cities, and 20 new large-scale solar projects are expected to come online in the country in 2017. This trend in Australia is being reflected worldwide, with the cost of solar dropping 58% globally in the past five years and the solar industry now employing more people than coal.

February 28, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Science

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Renewable Energy

BREAKING: Elon Musk And SpaceX Are Sending Humans to the Moon

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Yesterday, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said that his private spaceflight company would have a notable announcement today at 4pm EST (1pm GMT). It seems that humans are going back to the Moon. Here's what you need to know about this new revelation and what it means in relation to humanity's journey into the cosmos.

February 28, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Science

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Biologists Warn Half of All Species to Face Extinction by 2100, as GOP Pushes to Destroy Protections

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Today, 20 percent of all species are at risk of being wiped out, scientists at a Vatican conference on biodiversity warn, and that number may rise to nearly 50 percent by the end of the century.

February 27, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Environment

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Sustainability

Trump Designates Agency “Hit Squads” To Cut Most Regulations

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On February 24, the Trump Administration did something consequential. No, it was not barring certain news outlets from an informal briefing — called a “gaggle” — with White House Press Secretary Sean

February 28, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

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Can EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Surprise Everybody?

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The Feb. 22 release of thousands of pages of emails from Scott Pruitt, approved by the Senate on Feb. 17 to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), only confirms what many

February 28, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Environment

Committee to Protect Journalists: Trump's Attacks on Media Will Be Felt by Journalists Around World

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On Friday, the White House took the unprecedented act of barring The New York Times, CNN, Politico, the Los Angeles Times, the BBC and several other news organizations

February 27, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Media

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Censorship

Type: Video

Rev. William Barber: The NAACP Will Boycott North Carolina over HB2 & Voter Suppression

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The NAACP has announced it would not hold its convention in North Carolina and urged an international boycott of the state to protest North Carolina’s anti-trans bathroom bill and a

February 27, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Justice

Type: Video

We Will Not Be Intimidated: Philly Rabbi Decries Desecration of Over 500 Graves at Jewish Cemetery

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In Philadelphia, some 500 headstones at a Jewish cemetery were toppled or damaged in the second apparent incident of vandalism at a Jewish cemetery in about a week. On Sunday, in

February 27, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Justice

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