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Wisconsin’s sand-mining boom could fuel fracking abroad
Wisconsin has just the right kind of sand for fracking, and industry wants to ship it around the world. But sand mining takes a serious environmental toll.
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Elephants understand what it means when you point at stuff
Yet another reason elephants are flipping amazing.
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While EPA is furloughed, Republicans hold hearing to bash it
With the fed closed and a debt crisis looming, House Republicans still manage to hold a hearing on the real threat to the economy: the job-killing EPA.
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The Plaza Hotel thinks NYC’s bike share is an “eyesore”
The storied hotel is suing New York City and Citibank for having the audacity to install a bike share station across the street.
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Roundup-ready, aim, spray: How GM crops lead to herbicide addiction
Herbicide-resistant crops make it easy for farmers to rely on hefty quantities of weedkiller. Then the weeds evolve, and we have to up the ante.
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Building a Culture of Mass Resistance to Climate Disruption
Without question, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was an organization essential to the Southern-based civil rights movement of the 1960’s. If SNCC had not come forward, that movement never would have won the victories that it did. SNCC was youth-based and youth-led. It was the most uncompromising, most risk-taking, most participatory and democratic and […]
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Cavepeople invented recycling
Researchers found 200,000-year-old flint chips in a cave that SOMEBODY (Bam-Bam?!) repurposed as silverware.
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Banksy sold original prints on the streets of NYC for $60
He didn't advertise them as anything other than "spray art."
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Man shoots beloved neighborhood bear Audrey for no good reason
Killing a bear if it's threatening you makes sense. Killing a bear that's eating your trash does not.
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Ask Umbra: Can you help us find a super new pooper?
A reader wonders which loo to choose: composting or septic. Umbra puts on her boots and wades in.
