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Is a green energy revolution on the global agenda?
Mass protests over green space in Turkey posed a significant threat to the ruling party, and other countries have begun to feel the heat as well.
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Someone has made cheese out of Michael Pollan’s belly button bacteria
When Pollan said we should make our own food, this is NOT what we thought he meant.
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These members of Congress are bankrolled by the fracking industry
The growing fracking industry is "yielding gushers" of campaign donations for congressional candidates, according to a new report.
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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.