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These are the saddest school lunches we’ve ever seen
The best you can say about this, really, is that the decent school lunch food is about equivalent to decent fast food. The rest is even worse.
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Having a potted plant in the office makes you work harder
When you put flowers and plants at people's desks, they do better at cognitive tasks.
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Climate negotiators are like Nazis, says this helpful, industry-funded group
Deniers working to slow progress at U.N. talks in Warsaw compared climate action with the Holocaust, as part of an effort to raise money.
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Wind energy company fined $1 million over bird deaths
In the first criminal conviction of its kind, Duke Energy will pay big for killing golden eagles and other birds, and be forced to improve its practices.
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Disaster housing made from water bottles solves two needs at once
The only catch is that disaster refugees will have to drink a lot of water, fast, if they want a roof over their heads.
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Moving Up the Food Chain
For most of the time that human beings have walked the earth, we lived as hunter-gatherers. The share of the human diet that came from hunting versus gathering varied with geographic location, hunting skills, and the season of the year. During the northern hemisphere winter, for instance, when there was little food to gather, people […]
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Activist cited for animal cruelty because she filmed animal cruelty
A sheriff in Colorado has decided that covertly filming workers abusing farm animals constitutes cruelty to animals.
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Ask Umbra: Are they going to lock me up for reusing my washwater?
A reader wonders if her gray water habit is going to land her in deep trouble. Umbra plunges in.
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4 climate policies we’re thankful for
There isn't much good news to report about the environment these days. But here are a few developments for which we can give thanks.
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Climate change will make the Arctic a new battleground. Here’s how America will fight
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel outlined the Pentagon's eight-point strategy for policing the Arctic as drilling and shipping bloom. Hint: Guns, ammo, and friends.
