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Everything that’s wrong with the suburbs, in one image
But the point of these maps isn’t -- believe it or not -- to give city-dwellers one more reason to gloat.
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Your car will soon be less polluting, thanks to EPA’s new gasoline rule
Oil refiners will have to reduce the amount of sulfur in gasoline, which will help combat asthma, lung disease, and premature births and deaths.
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Endangered slow lorises are fighting back, starting by biting Lady Gaga
The slow loris may be an adorable, big-eyed creature that you want to tickle, but it’s done taking your crap.
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Could the Keystone pipeline give you cancer?
Sen. Barbara Boxer is warning that tar-sands oil poses significant health risks. She's calling on the State Department to do a new study on the issue.
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You should be worried about the high levels of weed killer in air and water
A new study says 75 percent of air and rain samples from the Mississippi Delta contained Roundup.
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Five Reasons Solar’s Win Over Gas in Minnesota is Just the Beginning
Solar advocates were popping corks when a New Year’s Eve ruling by an administrative law judge in Minnesota said that distributed solar arrays were a more cost-effective resource than natural gas to meet Xcel Energy’s peak power needs. The energy media were aflutter for weeks, but many missed the bigger significance. If solar trumps gas […]
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Salami made from Kanye West and James Franco would make for the weirdest sandwiches ever
We can’t argue that meat isn't problematic. We’re just not sure eating Jennifer Lawrence is the solution.
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Pining for pines? Feeling fir-y? This map is like Yelp for trees
Open Tree Map is a new database of Seattle's urban forest. Tree-hugging just got so much easier.
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Ask Umbra: Should I get my panties in a bunch?
A reader wonders about the bags her undies come in. Umbra says that's a delicates subject.
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Hundreds arrested at anti-Keystone protest in front of White House
The student-led demonstration was the "largest youth civil disobedience at the White House in a generation," organizers said.
