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Nicaragua OKs plan for cross-country canal, environment be damned
Lawmakers have given a Hong Kong company rights to build a canal intended to rival Panama's. As you might imagine, there would be huge eco-downsides.
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If your commute isn’t douchey enough, ditch the bike for a $2,700 electric unicycle
Do you have too many wheels and too much money? Perhaps you want this self-balancing electric unicycle.
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How Shell is trying to send a chill through activist groups across the country
One of our most important rights as Americans is the freedom to express ourselves. This takes the form of voting, it takes the form of activism, and it takes the form of our First Amendment right to free speech. This summer, the 9th Circuit Court in California is weighing the question of whether companies have […]
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This is where pay phones go when they die
A Manhattan photographer has solved the mystery of where all the defunct pay phones went.
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Hummingbird tree-sit could stop San Fran developers where occupiers failed
Could a federal law protecting wildlife monkeywrench San Francisco's housing boom?
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Awesome animated GIF of a supercell thunderstorm makes severe weather look mesmerizing
This will make you glad you're looking at your computer screen and not out the window.
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Al Gore, raising the heat on Obama, calls Keystone an “atrocity”
The former veep has been joining other Democrats in calling on the president to get moving on climate change and say no to Keystone XL.
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Oyster hatcheries put heartburn meds in the water to fight ocean acidification
Why address climate change when you could just dump Tums in the ocean? Makes perfect sense.
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Climate change 101 with Ernest Moniz: “Count.”
When a climate-skeptic congressman asked how we can be so sure that people are causing climate change, the energy secretary pointed to basic math.
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Your daily heartwarmer: Airbnb homes used for disaster victims
Next time a hurricane strikes, Airbnb wants to connect displaced residents with locals willing to donate housing. Aww.
