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Forget golf course views; new subdivisions are being built around farms
Developers have figured out that food is more popular than golf, so they're now wrapping housing communities around farmland instead of links.
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Santa, NO! Climate change will threaten reindeer
All we want for Christmas is for Rudolph to be OK.
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Brooklyn’s new Whole Foods will sell vinyl records, be a total cliché
No word on whether the store will also sell cronuts and shrines to Sloane Crosley.
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Papa wheelie: Is there one dad bike to rule them all?
In part 2 of his series on how to kill your car, Nathanael Johnson goes looking for a "dad bike" -- something he can use to haul kids and groceries, and still maintain some modicum of dignity.
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In a nut shell: Only you can help us squirrel away a victory
We're nearly 1,000 donations away from our goal of 2,500 gifts. Please help us close the gap.
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We’re still losing ice at the poles
The Arctic ice floats on the ocean, the Antarctic ice over land and sea, meaning that they melt different. But they're both melting.
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Fight over frac-sand mining heads to the polls
Voters in a Wisconsin town are trying to throw out the mayor and two city council members who want to allow sand mining in city limits.
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Obama delayed regulations until after the election, but that’s just a symptom of the problem
The whole federal regulatory system has been perverted by industry interests.
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Watch people try to walk in storm winds so powerful they’re almost blown off their feet
It's a little funny watching people walk at nearly a 45-degree angle, but it's mostly just a sobering illustration of the power of nature.
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Ozone layer will take five more decades to fully recover
It's been more than 20 years since the Montreal Protocol was signed, and scientists say it'll be another 70 years before the ozone layer fully heals.
