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8 million acres of China’s farmland are too polluted to grow food
The area's about the same size as Belgium.
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New York developer tears down a huge, productive community garden in the middle of the night
The city leased the land to a developer to build a concert venue.
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These piglets glow in the dark
Scientists in China transferred jellyfish DNA into pigs.
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Now you can plant your garden by firing a shotgun into the ground
Nothing says “contemplative Sunday afternoon” like walking around your backyard with a firearm.
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Maybe your 2014 New Year’s resolution should be eating vegan mayo
Apparently this stuff really IS better than mayo. Or so swears one Slate writer.
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Whole new crystal ball game: What does 2014 hold for rabble-rousers?
Divestment, protesters, arrests, Warsaw, Obama: 2013 was a tumultuous year for green activists. We predict next year will be even wilder.
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Ask Umbra: Could you settle the debate over dishwashers vs. hand-washing?
A reader insists she can scrub circles around even a super efficient dishwasher. Umbra brushes up on the basics.
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13 major clean energy breakthroughs of 2013
The rapidly improving technology, declining costs, and increasing accessibility of clean energy is the true bright spot in the march toward a zero-carbon future.
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Thanks to Congress, 2014 will bring uncertainty for the wind industry
The wind PTC has allowed the industry to grow and reduce costs, but now it is expiring. There hasn't been a big fight to extend it into next year. Why?
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Powder River Basin: Coal on the move
No other coal deposit on the planet is so big, so close to the surface, and so cheap to mine as the rich seams in eastern Wyoming and Southern Montana. That's made the Powder River Basin the locus of a national debate on how we develop our fossil fuel reserves.
