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It’s the first day of spring! Here comes the toxic green sludge
Predictions of heavy spring rains bode poorly for the health of Lake Erie, where agricultural runoff is expected to cause massive algae blooms.
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Two Ways Americans May Get More Ownership of their Energy Future
Three years ago, the prospects for Americans to own their energy future seemed relatively bleak. There were almost no replicable models for doing community-based energy projects or investment, despite falling costs and technology – solar and wind – that lend themselves to local development. But thanks to recent opportunities in community solar and crowdfunding, we […]
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Bears in Russia are getting high by huffing airplane fuel
Not to be a narc or anything, but animals get high a LOT. And these Russian bears have figured out how to get high off gasoline fumes.
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The queen rides the Tube to celebrate 150 years of subway transit in London
She's a sweet old lady. It's a grand old public transit system. And check out these useful badges they have for pregnant ladies!
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Vintage McDonald’s menus are kind of amazing (also delightful, tempting, and full-flavor)
Here's a look back into the halcyon days when people had to be talked into eating at McDonald's.
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Mini-mansions are all the rage
Both industrial designers and industrious teens alike are engineering tiny paragons of sustainable living. Behold some of our recent favorites.
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Post-Sandy, green groups at loggerheads with plans to rebuild Jersey’s boardwalk empire
How to rebuild all those destroyed promenades? With trees cut from the rainforest, thus contributing to even more superstorms, natch.
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Major Scientific Group Drops Tar Sands Research
(Re-published with permission from DeSmog Canada) The Helmholtz Association of Research Centres, a major German scientific body with more than 30,000 researchers and US$4.4 billion in annual funding, has dropped out of a joint Alberta tar sands project over fears that the project was damaging the institution’s reputation. In April 2011, the Province of Alberta invested $25 […]
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Farmland prices soar — along with farm debt
Never mind the drought: When the farmland price bubble pops, America's farmers could be under water.
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Thanks for the oil, Iraq, here’s some cancer
Depleted uranium from U.S. munitions is suspected of causing a huge spike in birth defects and all kinds of cancers in Iraq.
