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Meat-based diets linked with type 2 diabetes; vegans everywhere get smug
Guess we won't be having that bacon, egg, and cheese breakfast sandwich today after all.
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This video of a semitruck’s blind spot will blow your MIND
Sorry for the Upworthy headline, but seriously.
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Illinois College Students Vote Six to One in Favor of Divestment
Mary Anne Hitt: Americans continue to demand clean energy from the local to national level, and here’s yet another amazing example of quick, successful organizing by college students in Illinois. I’ll let my colleagues tell you all the wonderful details: Illinois College Students Vote Six to One in Favor of Divestment Co-written by Anastasia Schemkes […]
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Miami couple forced to rip out 17-year-old veggie garden in their front yard
You can have pink plastic flamingos in your front yard, but not a vegetable garden. WTF?
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Climate debt collectors: Occupy wants the 1% to pay up
Here's how Hurricane Sandy inspired the debt-relieving Rolling Jubilee crew to focus on climate -- and why you shouldn't feel guilty about flying.
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Coal industry tries to crash Warsaw climate talks, gets spanked
At a big coal summit being held near U.N. climate negotiations, the industry argues that its fancy-pants new plants are clean. Scientists call bullshit.
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Piles of tar-sands waste in Chicago are pissing people off
A company owned by the Koch brothers is storing big piles of petroleum coke, which is blowing into nearby neighborhoods. The city, state, and feds are finally taking action.
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Colorado to crack down on methane emissions from fracking
New draft rules would require oil and gas companies to control emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane, a first in the nation.
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Want a climate deal? Rich nations will have to pay up to help poor ones
Developing countries are demanding that they get help cutting emissions and adapting to climate change, plus compensation for damage already done.
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Enjoy your nightmares about this squid and its creepy extra-long tentacles
That's not an alien that's sweeping through the void to end your life and consciousness with a single, silent whip of its stringy tentacles. It's a squid.
