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This is easily the least bad rap about bike safety featuring puppets we’ve ever seen
Rhett the terrier puppet instructs you to put your helmet on and not act like a tool.
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Tar-sands waste going to fuel dirty power plants in China
Petcoke piles are blighting America. But here comes China to save the day ... by burning the dirty byproduct in its furnaces.
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The world’s most bike-friendly city has three times as many bikes as cars
Cities can choose which modes of transportation will be easiest to use. Groningen chose the bike.
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For lab rats, Oreos are just as addictive as cocaine
You are not so different from a lab rat: faced with an Oreo, "they would break it open and eat the middle first.”
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18-foot sea serpent creature turns up in California
This snakelike oarfish is so long that if you unfurled it out a second-story window, it would probably drag on the ground a little.
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Mighty mangroves shield Indian village from cyclone’s wrath
Villagers in Praharajpur planted and protected mangroves along the coast -- and it paid off over the weekend by helping rebuff a vicious storm.
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Dramatic charts reveal climate change’s effects on oceans
The oceans are becoming warmer, more acidic, starved of oxygen, and less productive. Here are the results, in technicolor.
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North Dakota officials might finally spill details about oil spill
A North Dakota health official defended the decision to keep an oil spill secret from the governor and public, saying the spill occurred in the "best place" possible.
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Rescued hedgehog with cape and skateboard is almost too cute to believe
Watch Kayak the hedgehog curl up like a sea anemone, flip up a mini-skateboard, and get a bath with a toothbrush. SQUEE!
