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Five dumb bills just passed by the House would screw the environment
To celebrate "Stop Government Abuse Week," Republicans in the House passed legislation that would muck up the regulatory process and hamstring the EPA.
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Celery’s an aphrodisiac — too bad no one told Steve Buscemi
In this new Portlandia clip, Steve Buscemi struggles to make celery sexy. True story: It's been used for centuries to treat impotence.
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Organic eggs are so expensive because the chickens eat fancy imported food
American farmers aren't growing enough organic feed to feed the chickens that produce organic eggs
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Get an up-close, face-to-face view of a rescued pelican learning to fly
Bigbird the Pelican was a foundling.
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Most big countries have climate laws
But there are some notable exceptions. Ahem.
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Slope & change: The ski industry struggles to get its act together on global warming
Business leaders say they're serious about taking the climate fight to Washington. But judging from the friends they're making there, global warming isn't their most pressing concern.
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Millions of dolphins could be hurt as oil industry blasts along East Coast
The Obama administration has tentatively OK'd industry plans to conduct seismic tests in Atlantic waters. That could screw over marine mammals.
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The week in GIFs: Cheese snacks, RuPaul, and an Amish paradise
Green news from a motley gang of animated eccentrics.
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Pot-flavored condoms keep you and the planet happy
"Cannadoms" combine your two favorite things: toking and not making a baby.
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In “The Sixth Extinction,” Elizabeth Kolbert reports from the frontlines of a dying world
The New Yorker writer talks mass extinctions, climate inaction, and whether there's any hope (short answer: no. long answer: probably not).
