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Good day for snowy owls: Delaware likes them, New York has decided not to shoot them
There's an abundance of snowy owls on the East Coast right now, likely caused by a boom in lemmings.
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Greenpeace 30 might get Russian amnesty — and Pussy Riot might too
Vladimir Putin has proposed giving amnesty to some activists and political prisoners, including Greenpeace protesters who scaled an offshore drilling rig in September.
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Zoo finds out the hard way two male sloths can’t make a baby
Apparently SOMEbody wasn’t paying attention in biology class.
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Thieves broke into a convent and stole all their organic Brussels sprouts
For shame! Steal from God and you’re gonna get smote. (Or at least get your daily dose of vitamin C and sulforaphane.)
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Dairy accidents spilled a million gallons of crap in Wisconsin this year
This is the kind of pollution that causes green slime in the Great Lakes and dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Who cares about this red party cup?
Why make a movie about the humble red party cup? And why with Grist?
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Video premiere: I, Party Cup
The classic red party cup didn't just appear out of the blue. Join us as we go deeper to find the who -- and the why -- in this video.
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The next generation of eco-heroes
Don't let green journalists go the way of the dodo. Support Grist's new fellowship program.
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Smokestack city: An industrial neighborhood decides it has had enough
Inspired by South African activists who fought government-imposed housing evictions, Baltimore youth battle plans to build a garbage-burning power plant in an already polluted community.
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Why we should raise the gas tax, and why we won’t
We Americans are so dependent on our cars that we fear a hike in the gas tax -- but it's exactly what we need to help wean us from our auto addiction.
