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How certain can we be about climate change?
Climate hawks stress that climate science is "settled," but that's misleading. There are still lots of uncertainties around climate, scientific and otherwise, and we have to learn to live with them.
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This terrifying hell-squid lives on ocean waste
Turns out the scary-looking "vampire squid" is the only cephalopod that DOESN'T want to eat you. It mainly eats poop.
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We dare you not to cry while watching this man hand-feed a sick bee
An adorable bee was going to die until an adorable man adorably hand fed the bee honey and then the bee got better.
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These celebs want GMOs labeled
With the vote on GMO labeling in California only a month away, guess who's going public about the issue?
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Chipotle in hot salsa over tomato pickers’ rights
Activists are pushing Chipotle -- the one large fast food chain known for ethical meat -- to embrace a higher standard for workers. Will it work?
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This design turns New York’s parking lots into awesome prefab apartment buildings
Innovative green architects want to make neato affordable dwellings for elderly and homeless and so on -- but can't we have one just because we're kind of poor?
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World’s fastest one-liter-engine vehicle runs on cheese
Utah State University's small, speedy drag racer runs on cheese-waste-based biofuel.
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360,000 bees are staying at the Waldorf Astoria
There are bees living at the Waldorf Astoria, which is really cute, in a way, since they make honey, and really gross when you think about how a bee farm is just a creepy way for a hotel to pretend it is anything but part of a huge, gross, corporation.
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New Wind Farm is Nation’s Largest; Means More Clean Energy, Jobs
This past weekend marked the opening of the largest wind farm in the U.S. — a site that will power 235,000 homes. The Shepherds Flat Wind Farm near Arlington, Oregon, is a just the latest example of our nation’s clean energy industry powering our homes, businesses, and economy. Work on the Shepherds Flat project began […]
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If we criminalize arsenic in rice, only criminals will have arsenic-rich rice
Three Democrats in the House have introduced a bill that would draw up federal standards for arsenic levels in rice.
