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Heavily polluted Beijing now has 8-year-old lung cancer patient
But don't worry -- health officials say she probably just smokes too much.
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Rescued turtle can walk again thanks to a LEGO wheel prosthesis
Schildi the turtle lost a leg, but doctors rebuilt him, better, stronger, and ... probably much less fast but really, he's a turtle, how fast was he going to be.
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Oil refineries in Louisiana have accidents almost every day
Well, OK, not every single day. Just six days a week on average. Actually, to be specific, 6.3 days a week.
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Overwhelming Support for Climate Action at EPA Listening Sessions
Last week, I rode a bus from Indianapolis to Chicago for one of eleven listening sessions on the carbon pollution standards being proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency. When we arrived in Chicago, I took to the stage to help rally the 500-person crowd (video here), calling on the EPA to put forward strong, just […]
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No one had seen this funky-looking endangered ox in the wild for 15 years
The saola, a "long-horned ox" that looks, basically, like a deer that got vanilla ice cream all over its face, is really, really good at not being seen by humans.
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Instant bike lanes snap together like toy railroad tracks
City designers can buy a set, lay down a bike lane, and test it out.
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6 ways Bill de Blasio can make New York’s streets more people-friendly
Creating more pedestrian plazas, enforcing traffic laws, getting trucks off city streets -- there's lots the new mayor could do to make New York City safer for walkers and cyclists.
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Fasting for the Philippines
The Climate Action Network International (http://www.climatenetwork.org/press-release/civil-society-announce-they-will-fast-solidarity-philippines-yeb-sano) has organized an international fast in solidarity with Yeb Sano, the lead climate negotiator for the Philippines at the 19th United Nations Climate Conference in Warsaw, Poland. He said in a speech there Monday, on the first day of the conference, that: “In solidarity with my countrymen who are […]
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Divine intervention? Pope opposes fracking
Pope Francis has been posing for photographs while holding anti-fracking T-shirts. Will a papal encyclical be next?
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Pee-powered pollution robots are the future
As long as the EcoBot isn’t equipped with a sense of smell, it should be just fine.
