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Green groups have one less excuse for being so white
Environmental groups have long known that they're hurting in the diversity department. A new partnership has set out to fix that.
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You can totally recycle unrecyclable plastic. Right?
A reader wonders if it's OK to to recycle containers made of goodness-knows-what. Umbra says, "Goodness! No! What?"
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Here’s all the plastic in the ocean, measured in whales
Sorry about that, sea life.
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A BP spill’s worth of methane is leaking from the ocean off of Washington every year
And as ocean temperatures climb, we could see even larger releases of deep-sea methane from the region, a bummer of a new study finds.
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Behold the nightmare Manhattan would become if everyone commuted by car
Without public transit, New York would have to build nearly 50 multi-lane bridges to accommodate its commuters. Yikes.
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Methane is leaking out all over the damn place, thanks to the oil and gas industry
Two new studies tell us more about leaks of this potent greenhouse gas.
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Michigan thinks burning tires counts as renewable energy
A Michigan bill aims to classify fuel made by burning tires and hazardous industrial waste as renewable energy, but environmentalists say that's setting a dangerous precedent.
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Why I’m breaking up with Uber
Uber, I loved you, but your disregard for women's safety is bringing me down.
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Now bike messengers will run lights to deliver your Amazon
Drones are out, cyclists are in for the company's latest strategy to undercut brick-and-mortar.
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Night-proof your bike by turning it into a giant reflector
Emily Thibodeau, of Boston-based Hub Powderworks, coats entire bike frames in a special type of newfangled, super reflective paint.
