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Hand-crocheted tampons for the TRULY green

You can breathe easy: The holy trinity of reusable menstruation products is finally complete.

Holly Richmond Culture

Drift catchers use citizen science to fight pesticide pollution

Tired of watching chemicals blow across their fields, withering crops and threatening their own health, some farmers are taking matters into their own hands.

Lori Rotenberk Technology

The end of Meatpaper and the state of the fleischgeist

Before the feisty magazine bit the dust, it helped bring us a little bit closer to everyone -- and everything -- involved in this carnivorous life.

Nathanael Johnson Food

Cold justice: Alaska Supreme Court hears college kid’s climate case

Should the atmosphere be considered part of the public trust, a resource essential for our collective survival? That’s one question currently being considered by the Alaska Supreme Court, which earlier this month traveled to the northernmost town in the United States to hear arguments for a climate change lawsuit brought by six youth plaintiffs. On […]

Ben Jervey Uncategorized

Romanian villagers block Chevron frackers

Chevron tried to begin its Romanian fracking operations on Monday, but workers were sent home by protests.

John Upton Technology

Thanks to the shutdown, animals are running amok on the White House lawns

The shutdown is playing havoc with the First Lady's garden, but at least the fox who's living there has fresh veggies to eat.

Jess Zimmerman Culture

Readers to papers: Stop publishing letters that deny climate reality

The L.A. Times' decision to reject letters to the editor that deny climate science has inspired a petition calling on other major media outlets to do the same.

John Upton Climate & Energy

Eating bacon is associated with “lower semen quality”

One more reason to go vegetarian, fellas.

Sarah Laskow Culture

Illinois kills online coal propaganda targeting kids

The removal of pro-coal propaganda from a website is the latest sign that Illinois is moving away from brainwashing kids with deceptive messages about the harmful fossil fuel.