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Fancy new sustainable cement is made of old busted toilets
What happens when your crapper becomes a piece of crap? Hopefully it gets turned into sustainable concrete.
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This beautiful tiny house looks like an orange and was built for less than $9,000
Steve Areen built the fruit-inspired orange dome on a Thai mango farm using blocks of compressed dirt.
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Blades of gory: Teaching kids to slice and dice
An author suggests children learn to use a kitchen knife -- and provokes more plaudits than protests. Has overprotective parenting peaked?
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Climate change: The hottest thing in science fiction
Some call it “cli-fi” -- sci-fi infused with the increasingly frightening impacts of climate change. It's everywhere.
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Bird body count still rising following Galveston Bay oil spill
The Coast Guard has recovered hundreds of dead, oiled birds since a ship collided with an oil barge two weeks ago in Texas.
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We might get a sequel to An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth producer Lawrence Bender is in talks to make a sequel to 2006's biggest movie about a slideshow.
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Only 28 percent of Fox News climate segments are accurate
A new report finds that MSNBC was the most accurate cable network in 2013, and CNN could be a lot more accurate if it would stop hosting "debates" about climate science.
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Director Werner Herzog hates chickens but loves KFC
Herzog recently noted in a Reddit thread that "I like [chickens] Kentucky Fried." But that's the only way he likes them.
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Ohio cracks down on methane pollution from fracking
It's now the third state to require that natural-gas operations do a better job of finding and fixing leaks.
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Designed for lone commuters, this three-wheeled car gets 84 mpg
The Elio can go 672 freeway miles on a full tank. Its price tag is equally bite-size: $6,800.
