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The growing buzz around the biocarbon benefits of farmland
Filed under: Northwest Biocarbon Initiative, climate change, NBI, soil, home, agriculture Patrick Mazza, Research Director By Patrick Mazza Climate Solutions Can agriculture reverse climate change? That was the intriguing title of a New America Foundation blog post covering a July 25 event at the think tank’s Washington, D.C. headquarters. The key theme was that changing […]
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Battery-powered unicycle is the perfect form of transportation
If two wheels are great, one wheel must be better.
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Elon Musk’s Hyperloop will get you from L.A. to San Francisco in 30 minutes flat
The founder of PayPal and Tesla Motors has a $6 billion idea. Now he just needs to find someone to build it for him.
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No one knows why manatees keep coming so far north
A manatee was seen swimming in Virginia's Appomattox River.
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This Zach Galifianakis music video makes farming sexy
Nothing says "badass rapper" like hanging out in a field full of cows and driving a tractor.
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Tiny bike-based libraries pedal books to streets and parks
Call it hipster if you want. But taking libraries on the road to broaden access to books is mostly just awesome.
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Hold on to your balls! This fish will eat them
The pacu is like a piranha ... except it's known for biting testicles. And now it's loose in Scandinavian waters.
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Mystery lung fungus: Are you at risk?
Valley fever is hard to diagnose, even harder to treat, and potentially fatal -- and the number of cases is rising dramatically.
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L.A.’s Ron Finley wants to make gardening gangsta
The man who says gardening is his graffiti talks about fame, sex, and his diabolical plan to take over the world.
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Who’s to blame for climate change?
A quick, animated look at at where emissions come from on our planet.