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If you want to go faster on your bike, grow a mullet
It's the most aerodynamic hairstyle -- business in the front, EXTREME UNSTOPPABLE SPEED in the rear.
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All those fracking jobs come with an increased risk of lung cancer
High amounts of lung-penetrating silica dust could cause permanent damage and even cancer.
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Whole Foods will grow rooftop greens in a Superfund site
While we might be a little leery of both Whole Foods and veggies grown in areas long contaminated with industrial toxins, we're willing to give these a try.
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If we have to build parking garages, we might as well use them for yoga and weddings
This garage treats parking as a luxury. But parking is a luxury, which we're irrationally subsidizing.
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Climate change is slowing down our marathon times
The problem: We don't run so well in the heat.
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James Hansen to quit NASA, become full-time climate activist
Hansen has been the nation's most outspoken scientist on the need for climate action. Now he's leaving his day job to dedicate himself to activism.
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Science proves definitively that sea lions can headbang to music
A sea lion named Ronan is the first nonhuman mammal to have the proven ability to keep a beat.
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The environmental movement’s greatest hits, all in one documentary
The new film "A Fierce Green Fire" traces the movement from Love Canal to the birth of Greenpeace to the fight against climate change.
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This town was almost blown off the map — now it’s back, and super green
When the town of Greensburg, Kan., was nearly wiped off the map by a giant tornado, local residents decided to rebuild a town that would endure.
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Earth-cooling schemes need global sign-off, researchers say
Radical geoengineering projects could have disastrous impacts on the world's most vulnerable people, raising the need for global oversight.
