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How to make medicinal wine out of children’s poo
Usually we’re all for reusing waste, but this might be beyond even our limit.
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If you’re a mathematician, ocean vortices and black holes look exactly the same
Any garbage, oil, or water that goes into the vortex is trapped there.
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Environmental Justice Activists Look to Close Big Polluter’s Loopholes
A loophole is a polluter’s best friend — and today, community activists from fenceline communities traveled to Washington, D.C., to try and close one of them. These concerned citizens were in Washington to talk to the Obama administration about updates to the so-called “startup, shutdown, malfunction” rule for industrial facilities, including coal plants and refineries. […]
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Climate scientists are 95 percent sure that humans are causing global warming
Leaked drafts of the forthcoming fifth IPCC climate report reveal that scientists are more sure than ever before that we're screwing up the climate.
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Animals in pants are officially a trend
What's next? Spats for chickens? Pigs in top hats?
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NIH budget cuts force professor to euthanize his genetically modified rabbits
Sit tight -- this story's depressingness level is slightly reduced by a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reference!
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Climate change is making your apples taste different
You can add “Back in my day, apples were actually crisp and tart” to your tales of walking uphill both ways barefoot in a snowstorm.
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Is extremism in defense of GM food a vice?
Researchers who find problems with genetically modified foods deserve careful scrutiny. Instead, too often, they get pilloried or purged.
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Ask Umbra: Can I keep bugs at bay without a spray?
A reader wonders about newfangled mosquito-repelling stickers and bracelets. Umbra does more than scratch the surface.
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The Climate Movement and the 2014 Elections
Here’s a thought: hundreds of local climate activists around the country running for federal, state and local offices in 2014, doing so in a connected way and with solutions to the climate crisis at the top of the list of issues they consistently talk about. Given the urgency of the crisis, this seems to me […]
