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Get off my lawn! Organic farmers just can’t get along with GMO-growing neighbors
A new survey finds that organic farmers in the U.S. incur significant financial losses due to GMO contamination from nearby farms.
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It’s official: People around the world really are eating more and more alike
The Western diet of wheat, corn, and soy is spreading globally -- flattening the world's menus as it rounds out our guts.
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You can thank Warren Buffett for many of those exploding oil trains
His Berkshire Hathaway investment group owns many of the flimsy rail cars used to transport oil, and it has vigorously fought tighter regulation.
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We’d love these new fair-trade sustainable condoms, if the marketing weren’t kinda sexist
Men don't care about sustainability! They just want a condom brand that sounds like a monster truck rally.
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How to make natural gas more climate-friendly
There are easy steps the gas industry could take to plug methane leaks, but they probably won't do it until the EPA makes them.
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That old, rusty underwater pipeline? Nothing to worry about!
Michiganders are loudly voicing their concerns about a 60-year-old oil pipeline that runs along the bottom of the Straits of Mackinac.
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New York could turn its trash into giant floating compost islands
Here's one quirky solution to NYC's problem of trucking waste to landfills out of state.
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Tied to the rusty White House fence: Two Keystone protesters’ arrest odyssey
Sunday's civil disobedience action put the emphasis on "civil," but the arrested students intend to keep raising their voices.
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Generation Gap: Wind Opens Big Lead over Nuclear in China
By J. Matthew Roney In China, wind power is leaving nuclear behind. Electricity output from China’s wind farms exceeded that from its nuclear plants for the first time in 2012, by a narrow margin. Then in 2013, wind pulled away—outdoing nuclear by 22 percent. The 135 terawatt-hours of Chinese wind-generated electricity in 2013 would be […]
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It only takes otters 25 years to recover from an oil spill
This means marine life could fully recover from the BP oil spill in ... let’s see ... 2035!
