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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.
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WATCH: Happy Birthday Clean Water Act!
On October 18th, 1972, the Clean Water Act was passed by Congress on an overwhelming bipartisan vote. Now, forty years later, our rivers, lakes and bays are in far better condition and nobody is yearning for the days when the Cuyahoga River repeatedly caught on fire and Lake Erie was pronounced “dead.” Yet, it’s hard […]
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Female komodo dragons live half as long as males because they do so much frickin’ housework
Female komodo dragons live half as long as males. This is because they exhaust themselves raising children, which, if they are female, can in turn exhaust themselves and die young.
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Moss-covered keyboard lets you commune with nature while you work
It's a keyboard made out of moss and wood. It wasn't on our Christmas list, but it's cool. And maybe if we worked on it we'd actually feel like we were outside?
