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Shrinkage: Arctic ponds are the new George Costanzas
Climate change is leading to fewer and smaller ponds on Alaska's Barrow Peninsula.
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Which tiny house personality are YOU?!
There's no better way to make a major life change than with the world’s most reliable decision-making tool: ONLINE QUIZ!!!
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Seattle doesn’t want Shell’s stinkin’ Arctic drilling fleet
Residents of the notoriously green city are fighting the oil giant's plans to dock its Arctic drilling fleet at the local port.
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“Gossip Girl” babe will star in new show about North Dakota’s dirty oil boom
Chace Crawford will star as Billy, a "handsome and ambitious born hustler" making his way in fracking country.
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This rusty steelworks is about to become a kaleworks
A Newark factory will become a gigantic indoor farm in the latest large-scale effort to test the concept of vertical agriculture.
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All oil is bad, but some is worse. Here’s the difference.
There’s at least an 80 percent difference in CO2 emissions between the dirtiest tar-sands oil and the least-dirty non-tar-sands variety.
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Exclusive: Let The Black Lillies brighten up your week
Watch and enjoy The Black Lillies' performance of "Annabelle" at last year’s Pickathon.
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Can I recycle all these plastic food wrappers?
A reader wonders what to do with the plastic his food comes wrapped in. Umbra says he's bin doing it all wrong.
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Karl Ove Knausgaard is just as depressed by empty American consumerism as you are!
In the most recent installment of this series, Knausgaard briefly and grimly decries colonialism -- with some degrowth undertones.
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This chafing ice sheet is making us really uncomfortable
A new model of the West Antarctic ice sheet shows friction's role in keeping the giant slab from collapsing.