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Here is a real life demonstration of why you should not try to bike across quicksand
Just keep that in mind on your next bike trek through a marsh.
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The week in GIFs: Ryan Gosling edition
Ryan Gosling: almost as good as Thanksgiving leftovers.
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Here’s the pee-testing, marshmallow-shaped toilet of the future
So this is what Jay-Z and Kanye were talking about when they said "Watch the throne."
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ALEC calls for penalties on “free rider” solar-panel owners
The conservative group's anti-green agenda includes efforts to penalize people who install their own solar panels.
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Which Hollywood-style climate disasters will strike in your lifetime?
Here's a list of some of the most dreaded abrupt changes, and the probability that they'll happen anytime soon.
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The spying game: Companies monitor activists because they can
No one knows just how much surveillance of environmentalists takes place in the U.S. We do know there's not much penalty for getting caught.
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Big corporations are getting ready for carbon taxes, even if we’re not
You know it's bad when oil companies see the light on carbon taxing before the tax-collectors do.
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Low wages and cheap food: Separated at birth
The one-day strike by fast food workers reminds us that inexpensive food carries a high social price tag.
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Triple threat: Obama orders federal agencies to boost clean energy use threefold
As part of his climate plan, the president cleans up his own house by calling on the federal government to use more renewable electricity.
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“Let them eat coal”: Why cheap, dirty fuels aren’t a meal ticket for developing countries
Bjorn Lomborg thinks Africa just needs more fossil fuels. Luckily, Africans already know what's best for them.
