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Flower power: Fighting the Man with guerrilla gardens
Grist’s green-living pioneer sets out like a modern-day, anarchist Janie Appleseed, lobbing "seed bombs" in an effort to pretty up her city.
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Court says N.Y. town can outlaw fracking
Dryden and more than 50 other municipalities want to ban fracking in case New York's state moratorium is lifted. An appeals court said that's just fine.
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This nuclear plant tried to fix a leak with plastic, tape, and broomsticks
That's fine if you're a college kid with a leaky pipe in a house that you pay $200 a month for to a landlord who lives in the Bahamas. But this is a nuclear power plant!
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Watch a solar plane fly across America
The current leg of its trip will take the plane from California to Phoenix, but Solar Impulse is in it for the long haul, crossing the entire country in the next few weeks.
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Tourists are making stingrays fat, mean, and insomniac
Stingrays bring huge amounts of tourism money into the Cayman Islands. And what do they get in return? A crappy diet and a messed-up sleep schedule.
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What if we never run out of oil?
New technology and a little-known energy source suggest that fossil fuels may not be finite. This would be a miracle -- and a nightmare.
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Mitt Romney tells college grads to have lots of babies
Breed early and breed often. That was the gist of Mitt Romney's advice in a commencement address at Southern Virginia University.
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Bike Party — a fresh new way to take back the streets
Born from the Critical Mass movement, these on-street bashes are revitalizing bicycle activism nationwide. The secret? More joy.
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Fracking threatens to escalate the West’s water wars
Nearly half of the country's fracking wells are located in water-stressed regions, so we might be seeing some ugly fights over water in the West.
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Atlantic coastal waters are the hottest since measurements began
Temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean from Maine to North Carolina were nearly three degrees warmer last year than the 30-year average.
