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See-through fish reminds us that nature is way, way weirder than we can cope with
Those dark circles on the front of its face? Those aren't eyes ...
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U.K. joins the club, vows to curb coal financing
Britain joined a growing list of countries and international organizations pledging to end financial support for most coal power plants.
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Portland and Seattle are getting special machines to sweep out bike lanes
It's no fun at all to ride a bike through a slippery pile of wet leaves. Actually, it's kind of terrifying.
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BP sends more drilling rigs to the Gulf of Mexico than ever before
Deepwater Horizon disaster? Forgetaboutit. BP recently deployed two more oil-drilling rigs to the Gulf, taking its count to a record-breaking nine.
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Wisconsin is solving icy roads like it solves everything else: With cheese
Wisconsin has an overabundance of a particular type of liquid waste -- cheese brine.
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Google and Facebook green guys baffled why their companies are in ALEC
At a recent forum on the Internet industry’s support for green energy, Facebook and Google representatives could not explain why their companies are members of ALEC, the powerful lobbying organization that opposes that mission.
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Bill Gates wants to make sexy condoms out of cow tendons
This is how your sausage wrapper gets made: with help from a California butcher.
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The three anti-environmental bills that are wasting Congress’ time
House Republicans, joined by a handful of Democrats, have passed three egregious dirty-energy-promoting bills. But don't worry, they won't become law.
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Your Splenda habit is bad for the earth
We pee out 90 percent of sucralose, and then it just hangs out in wastewater. NOT GOOD.
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At U.N. climate talks in Warsaw, hunger games get serious
Fed up, young delegates to the U.N.'s famously ineffectual annual conclave push for more aid to countries inundated by climate disasters.
