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Here’s the most depressing coffee table book of all time
If you’re looking for the perfect gift for the eco-conscious Grumpy Cat in your life, this is just the ticket.
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AllPaws is giving pet adoption the OkCupid treatment
Best part? Your future pet will never stand you up or turn out to be married.
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Ask Umbra: How much is my firewood polluting the air?
A reader wonders what kind of wood creates the cleanest smoke. Umbra says the answer is cut and dried.
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Obama OKs pipeline that will help Canada’s tar-sands industry
But not the pipeline you're thinking of. This one will carry ultra-light oil up to Alberta where it can be used to thin tar-sands oil for transport.
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Why climate skeptics and evolution deniers joined forces
Climate change and evolution came under attack for different reasons, but now their skeptics are banding together.
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Will Massachusetts become the second state to ban fracking?
Legislation that would impose a 10-year moratorium on fracking is making its way through the state legislature.
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If your pot isn’t organic, you’re probably inhaling pesticides
Bummer news for pot smokers: Up to 70 percent of the pesticides found on a marijuana bud can end up in the smoke you're inhaling.
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In the FDA’s actions on trans fats, are there lessons for GMO labeling?
Trans fats have been an unlabeled part of the American diet until relatively recently -- a fact that makes a good case for the "precautionary approach" to new foods.
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Climate change: No longer electoral Kryptonite!
Virginia's gubernatorial upset is just the beginning, as politicians realize the climate issue is one that can help them win.
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Earthquakes shake Texas town on Thanksgiving, and fracking might be to blame
There have been more than a dozen earthquakes in and around the small Texan city of Azle recently, and a scientist says fracking practices could be the cause.
