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Next year, you’ll be able to play the Brooklyn Bridge like a harp
Thanks to British artist Di Mainstone, harps ain't just for angels and Joanna Newsom anymore.
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These aerial shots of factory farming look like bloody zombie wounds
In case you needed another reason to stop eating factory-farmed meat (and/or to be bummed about the state of America).
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Ask Umbra: What can Fukushima teach us?
With revelations about nuke-plant leaks in the news, Umbra looks into the hot mess that is energy production.
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How hospitals can help fight climate change
Jeff Thompson runs a hospital that's planning to be energy independent by 2014. Here, he shares how his organization is leading the charge in healthcare sustainability.
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Fears for seabirds as global warming affects coastline
A new study warns of a threat to U.K. wildlife as rising sea levels and changing weather patterns transform coastlines.
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Shooting the well: The petroleum torpedoes of the early oil fields
Almost immediately after we started drilling wells, we started fracturing the rocks underground to increase the flow of fossil fuels.
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Is climate change humanity’s greatest-ever risk management failure?
Humans are very good at managing risks, except when it comes to the greatest risk we've faced -- climate change.
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Newly discovered worm is basically a walking waterbed that spits glue
How amazing is it that creatures like this have been out there all this time and nobody knew about it? Wait, scientists knew about it? Shut up.
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What’s behind the natural gas boom?
An animated look at why production has skyrocketed in recent years.
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If it’s too smoggy for your tourist photos, Hong Kong has a fake blue-sky backdrop
Because you didn't pay good money to go to Hong Kong and have your vacation Instagrams ruined by light-impervious smog.
