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Giant train-inspired cake took 30 hours and more than 1,200 pounds of icing to build
To celebrate its anniversary, the Heathrow Express made a GIANT, 13-foot-long cake in the shape of a train car.
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For Our Future, Today Can’t Be Obama’s Final #ActOnClimate
This afternoon at Georgetown University, President Obama plans to announce a series of “steady, responsible steps” to tackle climate change. It appears that the president will finally begin to make good on his climate promises, but to truly meet his obligation to future generations, this must be the foundation – not the final act – […]
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New thing to fear: Poop raining down on you from airplanes
An Ontario woman had the joy of crap leaking out of an airplane and plummeting into her swimming pool.
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Please do not shoot the world’s oldest wild bear
So 39 is now considered "old, old, old." Great. JUST GREAT.
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These women deliver food from farm to table by bike, in minutes
A vegan bicycle maker and two organic urban farmers walk into a bar … (Hint: Yep, it’s for real, and nope, it’s not in Portland.)
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No-drama Obama unveils series of modest, sensible steps on climate change
Obama's climate plan contains no sweeping, cathartic gestures, just a series of small, sensible steps. But small, sensible steps matter.
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Obama’s climate plan in 3 easy bullet points (and a few sub-bullet points)
We've got details on the president's climate action plan, which he unveiled in a speech on Tuesday. The big move: clamping down on coal power plants.
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Blame Canada: Greedy for oil money, the country is turning into a rogue petrostate
An unforgiving article in Foreign Policy magazine describes Prime Minister Stephen Harper's reckless pursuit of oil-sands wealth.
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Nuclear waste leaking at Hanford site in Washington, again
America's most contaminated nuclear site appears to have sprung another leak, just five miles from the Columbia River.
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FBI chases anti-GMO activists while ignoring Monsanto’s transgressions
Somebody uprooted GMO sugar beet plants, and the FBI is in hot pursuit. But it's not concerned about the illegal Monsanto GMO wheat that popped up in a field recently.
