Germany plans to close its nuclear reactors by 2022.

Electricity generation in 2010 created more carbon emissions than ever before.

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Canada just looooves tar sands. So much that the country sorta kinda forgot to mention to the U.N. that pollution from the oil-sands industry increased by 20 percent in 2009.

European countries are banning imported cucumbers, after an outbreak of antibiotic-resistant E. coli infected more than 1,200 people in Germany. Sixteen people have died so far. Man, even phallic vegetables aren’t funny this morning.

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Food prices may double by 2030, Oxfam reports.

In Brazil, a third anti-logging rainforest activist was shot.

An Alaskan biologist encourages you to assume every moose is a serial killer. People weren’t doing that anyway? Look at the menace in this face.

Before heading to the beach, check out how safe your sunscreen is.

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