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Kangaroo farts could help slow climate change
Kangaroo toots may smell like cheese and vinegar, but at least they’re fairly eco-friendly.
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Christie’s new woe: Court rules he illegally dumped climate protections
When Christie's administration unilaterally pulled out out of a regional cap-and-trade program in 2011, it broke the law, an appeals court rules.
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Now you can get raw milk from a vending machine
What if buying fresh milk from local cows was as easy as getting junk food?
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Old-timey sunset paintings shed light on pollution’s past
Did you know you can tell how polluted the air is based on the color of the sunset? And you can tell the color of long-ago sunsets from paintings.
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One California oil town keeps fracking in check — by banning all drilling
Flummoxed by an oil company's changing stories, Carson City plays tough -- and faces a longer battle.
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Meet the new California, where Paris Hilton isn’t cool but walking, biking, and transit are
Survey shows that Californians choose low-emissions modes of transportation for twice as many trips as they did 10 years ago.
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Can I get a Dasani, bro? Not in this national park, you can’t!
Contrary to popular commercial imagery, bears don’t drink out of bottles. But if they did, they'd find it a lot harder to get their paws on some Dasani.
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Here’s how rooftop gardens can empower women and tame population growth
It's a few easy steps from rooftop gardens to empowered women to reduced population growth to a cleaner environment. A new short film maps that path.
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Can we eat our way out of the invasive carp problem?
Invasive Asian fish are breeding like rabbits in American waterways, and pushing everything else out. Let's push back with our plates.
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This pickle chandelier is a delightfully mystifying take on alternative lightbulbs
We’ll say this for the gherkin chandelier: It sounds way tastier than LEDs.
