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GMO labeling: Trick or treat?
Many of the arguments against Washington state's GMO labeling initiative make sense. Here's why, despite that, it should pass.
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The future of a big coal-export project will be decided by this small Washington community
A council election in Whatcom County will determine whether a coal terminal is built to send coal from Montana and Wyoming to Asia.
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Italian mafia boss says pollution turned him into a police informant
He knew the mafia's toxic-waste dumping would doom people to die from cancer, and he eventually felt bad enough to do something about it.
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Brown to student activists: We can’t live without coal
At one university, the logic of fossil-fuel divestment runs into a brick wall -- held up by trustees with conflicts of interest.
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Unregulated bumblebee trade threatens bumblebees
Activists are pushing the U.S. government to crack down on trade practices that they say are harming native populations of bumblebees.
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This squid tree might just be the best yarn bombing we’ve ever seen
If you have a sweater machine, four miles of yarn, and 14 spare hours, you too can dress up a tree as a cephalopod for Halloween.
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The Pitcairn Islands are weird and crummy, so why not turn them into a nature reserve?
The sixty-five people who live there are descended from the sailors who mutinied on the Bounty.
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Dog-saving comic book artist makes animal rescuers into vigilante heroes
Matt Miner's heroes fight a very specific type of bad guy: people who torture and abuse animals.
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It takes 1.39 liters of water to make a liter of water
If we're going to concede water as a "packaged beverage," we want beer as a municipally provided utility in exchange.
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Boston to order builders to adapt to climate change
Under proposed new zoning rules, developers in Beantown will have to construct buildings that can handle floods, heat waves, and other climate impacts.
