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The worst part about BP’s oil-spill cover-up: It worked
Here's what BP doesn't want you to know about the use of Corexit after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill.
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Facebook’s new roof is greener, more expensive than yours
Facebook is putting an amazing green roof on its new building in Menlo Park. It's going to be big and elaborate. You can only see it if you get a job at Facebook.
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Most Protestant pastors don’t think climate change is real
Only 43 percent believe global warming is happening and human-caused, a new survey finds. Democratic pastors are far more likely to get it than Republicans.
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Someone is wrong on the internet, and it’s Google’s Earth Day doodle
We like celebrating Earth. But it turns out that Google has created a weird alternative planet that has a sun, a moon, four seasons, and prairie dogs but could not possibly be Earth.
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World’s energy nearly as dirty today as it was 20 years ago
Between 1990 and 2010, we made very little progress in cleaning up our energy supplies, according to a report from the International Energy Agency.
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Contest-winning kids are absurdly good at drawing endangered creatures
Kindergartener Ava Bribiesco decided she wanted to depict American burying beetles -- and won the grand prize.
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We say YES to this wedding dress made out of reused bread bag ties
The whole dress cost less than $50 to make. And it's beautiful.
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Flood-drought-flood: Is this the new normal?
Drought has given way to flooding in the Midwest, the latest manifestation of a vicious cycle that appears to be driven by climate change.
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Two-in-one trash can removes your excuse not to recycle
The Solecan is two cans that snap together into one. You just have to move your recycling about an inch to the left, which you can probably handle even if you're really lazy.
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Three Unequal Choices for a Local (Renewable) Energy Future
Earth Day highlights the need for a sustainable energy future, and experience suggests that there are only three meaningful choices for communities trying to increase local control of a greener energy future. But the three policies – deregulation (“customer choice”), municipal aggregation (“city choice”), and municipal utilities (“city ownership”) – are not equal. Two recent […]
