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Why are French bees making blue and green honey?
French bees don't have much better taste than American bees, it turns out.
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Could Washington state elect the greenest governor in the nation?
Democrat Jay Inslee, a climate hawk and clean-energy booster, is in a tight race with Rob McKenna, a Republican who acknowledges the threat of climate change.
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A beautiful, fragrant garden made from the poop of tennis players
The Riverside Clay Tennis Organization is in the process of creating some super eco toilets that magically turn poop into flowers. Well, that's a little bit of an exaggeration. But they kind of do.
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We’re No. 1! (In climate denier coverage)
A recent study indicates that the U.S. ranks first in newspapers giving voice to climate deniers. Somewhere Jim Inhofe is doing a tap dance.
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Friday music blogging: The Tallest Man On Earth
Kristian Matsson has a simple thing going: he plays guitar and sings. His records are self-produced, lo-fi affairs, the songs rarely adorned with anything beyond a single guitar, sometimes acoustic, sometimes jangly, open-tuned electric. That’s not easy to pull off, but the Swedish Matsson — who records as The Tallest Man On Earth — has […]
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This bacterium eats toxic liquid and poops out gold
Cupriavidus metallidurans can eat toxic gold chloride and excrete pure gold. This is not so useful as science. But it makes good art!
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Bet you never knew ice could make this sound
The Russian percussion group Ethnobeat has turned Lake Baikal, the world's oldest lake, into a 12,000-square-mile drum kit.
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Manhunt for woman who rode a manatee finally comes to an end
A woman in Florida tried to ride a manatee and people were pissed. Lots of them took photos of her so she had no choice but to turn herself in.
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GMOs, pesticides, and the new scientific deadlock
A new study says GMO crops have led farmers to use 400 million more pounds of pesticide than they would have otherwise. Here's how to interpret the science -- and the critique.
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Now we can get drunk on artisanal bourbon at the farmers market
New Yorkers can now sell fancy booze in the places where they sell fancy vegetables and coffee.
