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No Fracking, No Fracking Pipelines
Something is happening in the Delaware River watershed, something important and inspiring. Yesterday over 100 people from dozens of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware groups joined together in one of the most empowering actions I’ve been part of in a long time. For two and a half hours, led by Maya Van Rossom […]
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California town could require solar power on every new house
If the mayor gets his way, the desert town of Lancaster in Southern California would set a precedent for other sunny cities.
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BP officially quits the solar business
So much for the oil giant's "Beyond Petroleum" branding and sunburst logo. Meanwhile, Chinese solar companies are having troubles of their own.
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Man arrested for flying with 200 pounds of caterpillars
Apparently the man intended to eat them. That's a lot of caterpillar stroganoff.
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King Coal’s tragic puppet show, Part 2 – Coal export is wrong
…originally published at GRIP…. When last we left our intrepid heroes, the great Northwest had woken up to find itself cast in the wrong movie, sort of like Owen Wilson playing Richard Nixon (see Part 1). If we’re disoriented, it’s no wonder – what, with all the crap flying around trying to convince us that […]
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A bigger, badder climate ‘hockey stick’
New research takes the deepest dive ever into historic climate records -- and comes up still blaming humans for recent warming.
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Trippy-looking thermal photos show penguins are even colder than the surrounding air
Thermal imaging shows that penguins' feathers are even colder than the sub-zero air they live in. It also makes them look super '80s radical.
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Bacon is really bad for you
Eating too much processed meat makes you more likely to be killed by a heart attack or cancer, a new study finds.
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Pet-loving architects in the Dominican Republic build a beautiful animal shelter out of recycled materials
Animal lovers in the Dominican Republic have banded together to create a beautiful recycled shelter for some abandoned dogs and cats.
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You don’t need nature, you just need the smell of it
An immunologist in Japan named Qing Li has been working for years to show that you can get a bunch of the benefits of nature without actually going there.
