Latest Articles
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American company sues Canada over fracking moratorium
A failing fracking company says Canadians owe it $250 million because of a ban on fracking beneath the St. Lawrence River in Quebec.
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Bees can’t find flowers because of your car
Diesel fumes from cars essentially eliminate bees' ability to smell flowers.
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Incredibly dramatic Taiwanese animation of jellyfish shutting down a nuclear plant
This, uh ... this is probably not how it really happened.
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Fancypants London is using poetry to urge proper transit manners
In true British fashion, the London Underground now features poems gently reminding riders how best to behave.
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Monsanto just dropped $1 billion on better weather forecasts
While the federal government hacks away at spending on weather forecasting, Monsanto is taking the opposite approach.
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This merry-go-round turns kid energy to clean energy
Now energetic kids in rural Ghana can charge up LED lanterns by playing, so they can study at night.
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Scientists find evidence of alien Tupperware
Aliens don't want to annihilate our planet. They just want to keep their leftovers fresh.
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Ask Umbra: What’s the greenest way to dispose of dog poop?
A readers wonders what to do with dog doo-doo. Umbra gives him the full list of do's and don'ts.
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Dr. Bronner’s soapbox: Working GMO labels into a lather
The verbose soap favored by clean hippies everywhere takes a stand for Washington state's proposition 522.
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The Price is Wrong
[A short excerpt from the following was previously published on the “Triple Crisis” blog of Dollars & Sense magazine] For United States climate activists to succeed, they must demand serious government spending on energy efficiency and renewables – spending comparable to the current war budget. Calling for hundreds of billions in annual green public investment has […]