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Earth is taking its revenge on cars by eating expensive Corvettes
A 40-foot-wide, 20-foot-deep sinkhole opened beneath eight Corvettes worth, altogether, millions of dollars.
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Get your Valentine’s Day kink on with these sex toys made of upcycled bike tires
Take your love for cycling into the bedroom ... or dungeon.
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The secret ingredient to slow food: Slow cash
Insight and advice from an expert in creative ways of making smart, sustainable farmers solvent, too.
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Dems and GOP have competing visions for making oil trains safer in Washington state
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are feeling nervous about soaring oil-by-rail traffic, but they disagree on what to do about it.
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Here is what you would see if you were being eaten by a pig
To be fair, the pig did not succeed at eating this camera. But it definitely tried.
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This boat hull was left rusting in a bay until it turned into a forest
The SS Ayrfield was built in 1911.
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U.S.-India: Dealing With Monsoon Failure
The scene plays out in India. At a reception, I met the head of Indian operations for Esso (now ExxonMobil). When I asked him how business was, he said it was great. In particular, diesel sales to fuel irrigation pumps were nearly double the previous year’s level. Why? Because farmers were pumping continuously to try […]
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BP found another shady way to cheat public, get richer
Minnesota is suing the oil giant, claiming it lied when taking state funds to clean up leaky tanks that were already covered by its insurers.
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Ted Cruz is right: Everyone is too fixated on Keystone XL
But that's the only thing he's right about. His new energy bill is full of terrible ideas that would endanger air and water and increase CO2 emissions.
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These workshops will teach you to salvage and build an upcycled tiny house
Yep, the goal is to build a tiny house in a week flat.
