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These crocheted chandeliers are recycled from fashion industry leftovers
British designer Naomi Paul's lamps provide lighting designed to be flattering to both your face and your sense of goodwill.
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Three reasons to have a cow over antibiotics in your meat
There's new evidence that antibiotics in livestock are impacting our health -- and there are new proposed laws to control them. Here's everything you need to know.
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Literal grassroots leadership: The Soil Carbon Challenge
Sitting down to talk about his work to focus the climate-saving power of soil carbon, Peter Donovan starts off with a trick question. “What’s the major greenhouse gas?” I fall right into it. “Carbon dioxide.” “No, it’s water vapor.” Of course, he’s right, and I know it. I have answered the question I thought I […]
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Construction of school building halted by newts
You can't build a school on an endangered newt habitat, so, uh ... everyone go home, I guess!
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Bite your nails, then cry like an infant as conservationists rescue a baby elephant from a well
Clear your schedule. This one is going to keep you and your feelings busy for a while.
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Entirely vegetarian cheeseburger is made out of leaves
Technically it's not edible. But it's really pretty!
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U.S. Wind Project Size [Infographic]
Big dreams for renewable energy often goad people into imagining big wind projects, with hundreds of turbines. But lots of smaller projects are just as likely to add up to big numbers. Counting wind projects from 1999-2010 (based on data from LBNL’s excellent Wind Technologies Market report) the average size of an American wind project […]
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Stopping the next great extinction could cost just $11.42 per person per year
This is according to a new study in Science, which estimates that it would cost $80 billion per year to stop extinction.
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Devoted under-consumer feeds her friends a meal made of trash
A woman on the TLC show Extreme Cheapskates gave her friends a dinner picked from the trash. Uh ... check please?
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This video of a rude emu will make you pee yourself in terror/hilarity
Birds are basically dinosaurs, which can seem pretty cool, until one of them is sticking its head in your crotch looking for treats.
