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Sequester guts wildfire prevention, sets up bigger blazes
The sequester took a 7.5 percent bite out of the Forest Service’s budget, nearly half of which is spent fighting wildfires.
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Zen and the art of bridge maintenance
When it comes to U.S. transportation infrastructure, we'd rather build new roads than deal with the old ones -- or the bigger questions about how we get around.
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Fracking accident leaks benzene into Colorado stream
Benzene levels soared in a Colorado creek after a natural gas facility spilled hundreds of barrels of natural gas liquid. So why haven't those responsible been fined?
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Arctic base evacuated as ice dissolves beneath researchers’ feet
With an emergency rescue underway, Russia's 70-year tradition of placing research stations atop floating chunks of Arctic ice could be over.
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This pedal-powered contraption can run a computer, split logs, or churn butter
Of course, you have to do the work of pedaling.
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Awesome old cookbook shows that the 1904 raw food movement was really into meat and cream
Eugene and Mollie Griswold Christian make a lot of the same arguments for healthy living and raw food that you hear today. Only they make them in turn-of-the-century style.
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Tornadoes — another argument for American exceptionalism
Three-fourths of all tornadoes worldwide touch down right here in the U.S. of A. Why are we so lucky?
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Poverty moves to the suburbs
According to a new study from the Brookings Institution, big city lights may be growing brighter by the day, but the 'burbs are broke.
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Could hairy buildings be the future of green architecture?
Well, probably not any time soon. But these theoretical Cousin Itt skyscrapers, covered in energy-collecting hairs, still look sweet as hell.
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Support for climate action is the new normal in U.S.
Most Americans support efforts to boost green energy and combat global warming, though exuberance for climate action numbed a little over winter.
