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Record-breaking Volkswagen is more fuel-efficient than your hybrid
Do YOU get 78 miles to the gallon? Didn't think so.
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The coal industry’s desperate PR efforts: old, lame, and ineffective
Among the highlights of President Obama’s climate change speech was an explicit recognition that polluting industries and the members of Congress who do their bidding will oppose climate action with the same talking points they have used for decades to try and block clean air standards. Now, what you will hear from the special interests and […]
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Oregon residents are planning a funeral to memorialize dead bees
As if bees don't have enough problems, tens of thousands were just massacred in Wilsonville, Ore., after a few trees were sprayed with the bee-killing pesticide Safari.
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Crazy ants will break your air conditioner
They don't build nests of their own -- they're too wild and crazy to settle down like that! Instead, they swarm in whatever is available -- often electronics, like A/Cs.
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![U.S. President Barack Obama wipes his forehead as he speaks about his vision to reduce carbon pollution while preparing the country for the impacts of climate change while at Georgetown University in Washington, June 25, 2013.]()
![U.S. President Barack Obama wipes his forehead as he speaks about his vision to reduce carbon pollution while preparing the country for the impacts of climate change while at Georgetown University in Washington, June 25, 2013.]()
The two things we learned about Obama’s plans to regulate coal
Obama's climate speech and plan contained few details about upcoming EPA carbon rules for power plants, but we do now know a couple of important things.
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Supreme Court will hear big clean-air case
An EPA rule cracking down on power-plant pollution that crosses state borders was struck down by a federal court last year. Now the Supremes will hear the case and could reinstate the rule.
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The microbeads in your body wash are slowly filling the Great Lakes with plastic
We know, we know. But your skin feels so soft!
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Plants can do math
British researchers found further proof that plants are adorable slash taking over the world.
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Full Planet, Empty Plates: Chapter 5. Eroding Soils Darkening Our Future
By Lester R. Brown In 1938 Walter Lowdermilk, a senior official in the Soil Conservation Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, traveled abroad to look at lands that had been cultivated for thousands of years, seeking to learn how these older civilizations had coped with soil erosion. He found that some had managed their […]
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No, fast food isn’t actually good for you: In defense of Pollanites
A new article in The Atlantic argues healthy eaters and Pollanites should embrace fast food so the industry will reform itself. What's wrong with this argument?
