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This is by far the cutest baby bat we’ve ever seen
If Bruce Wayne were really committed to accuracy, he'd spend his time licking food from a plastic cup, getting scritched, and generally being pants-pissingly adorable.
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It’s official: Just the taste of beer makes your brain happy
Finally, proof that beer equals delicious joy.
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What’s bugging your meat? Shit and antibiotics, probably
Take a deep breath, carnivores: 87 percent of supermarket meat tests positive for normal and antibiotic-resistant forms of Enterococcus bacteria.
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Activists to Interior: Stop letting coal companies pillage our land, atmosphere, and treasury
Green groups are calling on the Obama administration to stop selling off publicly owned coal at bargain-basement prices to rapacious energy companies.
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Time to Recognize the Rights of Nature
With Earth Day 2013 around the corner, it’s a good time to step back and see how we’ve been doing since the first Earth Day in 1970, when 20 million people took to the streets to protest rivers on fire, DDT-poisoned birds, sewage on beaches, and a devastating oil spill off the pristine Santa Barbara […]
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Fresh tracks: Chicago’s new ‘sky park’ turns abandoned rails into green spaces
The windy city has two major new parks in the works -- one for people, the other for the birds.
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Adorable therapy dogs bring comfort to Boston victims
The same comfort dogs deployed to help in Newtown are traveling to Boston. They are a cute and comforting presence.
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You’re forking out $9,000 a year to own your car
Forget the environmental costs of driving a car. The financial costs alone should be enough to shock you into walking, biking, busing, and sharing.
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Watch a leopard seal try to make friends with a kayak (or possibly hump it)
He sure loves this kayak. Or loooooooooves this kayak.
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Keystone XL: The science, stakes, and strategy behind the tar-sands pipeline fight
You're invited to the next Climate Desk Live event for a debate and discussion between some of the leading voices on this issue, including Grist's own David Roberts.
