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Charming animation reminds you to turn out the lights and look at the sky
We love this, which Olivia Huynh made as her senior thesis.
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These buses have gardens on their roofs
The prototype buses have been tooling around towns near Barcelona.
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2012: A year of broken climate records
Hot air, rising seas, and other findings from NOAA's latest State of the Climate report.
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This woman feels really, really strongly about rhubarb
What’s going ON? Is she making a really important jam? Is her potassium dangerously low?
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Need a distraction? Here’s the baby penguin live cam
Decidedly rock-and-roll pengiun parents Floyd and Roxy gave birth to fuzzy li'l babies you can spy on.
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The richer you are, the more you eat fast food! Wait, what?
"Oh yeah, fast food is AWFUL for you," admits 76 percent of Americans -- with a mouthful of fries.
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Spin cycle: Copenhagen’s rise, fall, and rise again to cycling supremacy
More than a third of Copenhageners bike to school or work, but it hasn't always been that way -- and city officials say that's not nearly enough.
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Young harp seals in the North Atlantic at risk from melting sea ice
It's a bad week to be a seal.
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The coal export bubble
Coal's price collapse spells trouble for terminal investors.
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NRA attacks “shadowy network” of enviros and zoos fighting to ban lead bullets
As some states weigh bans on lead-based ammunition -- the biggest source of unregulated lead in the environment -- the NRA fights back with a conspiracy theory.
