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The pollution in China is so bad it’s keeping the government from spying on people
You'd think the government would take this an indication that maybe it should work on cleaning up air pollution.
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Ballot effort to ban tar-sands oil from Maine city appears to have failed
A ballot initiative to prevent tar-sands oil from being piped through South Portland and loaded onto ships narrowly lost, according to initial poll results.
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The subways in Venezuela are so popular that boarding becomes a crazy free-for-all
The “desperate rush-hour dash to board a Venezuela subway” video is a mini genre all its own.
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Colorado voters tell fracking industry to frack off
Residents of the Colorado cities of Boulder, Fort Collins, and Lafayette voted Tuesday to ban or suspend fracking.
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“Our most paranoid friends were completely right”
Internet activism expert Ethan Zuckerman lays out what the Snowden/NSA revelations mean for organizers in the U.S. and abroad.
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This ridiculous luxury bike costs more than your car
This $11,200 Hermès bike was designed for "people who really want to have an easy life." No kidding.
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China and the Soybean Challenge
Some 3,000 years ago, farmers in eastern China domesticated the soybean. In 1765, the first soybeans arrived in North America, but they did not soon catch on as a crop. For 150 years or so the soybean languished as a curiosity in gardens. Then in the late 1920s, a market for soybean oil began to […]
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Climate change is decreasing farm yields just when we need them to go up
We could avoid the worst case scenario if we made a lot of big changes to our food and farm systems. So far, we're not.
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EDF sells green cred to Walmart for the low, low price of $66 million
Environmental Defense Fund, a big cheerleader for Walmart's sustainability efforts, gets about an eighth of its budget from the Walton family, the same folks who control Walmart.
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De Blasio’s biggest challenge: Climate change
New York City's new mayor-elect didn't spend much time during the campaign talking about global warming, but he'll likely spend a lot of his time at City Hall dealing with it.
