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Here’s a mama duck and her babies crossing a highway, enjoy your heart attack
Everyone's fine! Except you, because you died of stress watching it.
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Van Jones on Obama: Climate will be ‘the issue he’s judged on’
The president's former green jobs czar thinks growing public concern over climate change obligates Obama to take leadership on the issue.
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The Arctic’s beautiful frost flowers are home to millions of microbes
University of Washington graduate student Jeff Bowman and professor Jody Demind traveled to the central Arctic ocean to study these beautiful structures, called frost flowers.
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Kindle died? Reuse it as a spatula, toboggan, or chastity belt
We are very much into creative reuse, so we cannot help but be excited about 101 Uses of a Dead Kindle.
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How to make your own IKEA monkey
Why enjoy someone else's fancy monkey when you can assemble your own?
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Want an ethical vacation? Try sunny Latvia
Ethical Traveler put together a list of places to go where you can feel certain that your hosts are preserving their environment.
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World’s most famous wolf shot near Yellowstone
Conservationists and scientists and wolves are mad. Ranchers are happy, and so are their sheep. But not for long.
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Get Ready, Utilities: Solar is Coming
Quick question. Your state has good sunshine, lots of open rooftops, and the cost of solar energy has been falling by 10% per year. Do you think it will take 13 years to double the 10 megawatts (MW) of installed solar power? Yes, if you’re the largest corporate utility in my state, and willfully ignoring […]
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Stunning time-lapse video of a total solar eclipse
Seeing the shadow sweep over the landscape and -- this is the crucial part -- go away again ought to restore your hope for the future.
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This office building is made entirely out of recycled paper
It looks cool, but what happens when it rains? Uh, apparently nothing.
