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Ask Umbra: What’s the most efficient way to heat the house?
A reader wonders if it's better to turn the heat down at night or leave it high. Umbra busts out her hat and bunny slippers.
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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.
