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Plucky guess: Your chicken probably didn’t come from a Portlandia sketch
Food & Water Watch takes a classic "Portlandia" sketch on ordering local chicken and gives it a more realistic spin.
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Duke Energy belatedly pledges to overhaul coal-ash storage, after destroying river
Enviros have been pushing for years to get the company to clean up its act. All it took was an environmental disaster.
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Iowa is getting sucked into scary, vanishing gullies
The gullies are essentially pipelines that move prime soil (and herbicides and pesticides) from fields into streams.
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Food giants try to hijack GMO-labeling issue
They're banding together to quash state-level labeling campaigns, pushing instead for national labeling standards -- but only voluntary ones.
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Secretary Jewell highlights Pacific Northwest climate impacts, but dodges questions about coal leasing
The same week that a Government Accountability report highlighted problems with the way the Interior Department is leasing taxpayer owned coal, Interior Secretary Jewell was touring the Pacific Northwest to discuss the impacts of climate change. That included a discussion with scientists in Seattle and a tour of Mount Rainier to “see firsthand the impacts […]
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There will be dollars: Obama signs a new farm bill into law
It took forever and nobody's totally happy with it. See you again in 2019 or so when the whole thing starts all over again.
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British weather makes penguins so sad they need antidepressants
Winter in England has been rainy and windy, and penguins at the Sea Life Center in Scarborough are getting downright depressed.
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This map shows how climate change is screwing over your immediate area
It lets you see how average temperatures in specific locations all around the world have changed.
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Grist on tablets: Now 100 percent shinier!
We're pleased to introduce a brand-new Grist-for-tablet design that you'll see every time you load our site up on your iPad or Android tablet.
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Will Sochi have enough snow?
Piles of fake snow at the Olympics are the latest sign of an industry on the brink.
