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Why shouldn’t you eat horse?
It's cheap, healthy, and legal, so why don't American meat-eaters want to tuck into some pony?
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Seattle ‘green’ consultants sell out for coal money, whine
The push to ship coal out of Pacific Northwest ports is one of biggest climate fights of our time. Those on the wrong side deserve to be called out and scorned.
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From red to black: How Philly remade its transit system
In the '90s, Philadelphia's transit network was plagued by $75 million in debt and an FBI investigation. Now it's celebrating a major turnaround.
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Pesticides are killing off America’s birds
Pesticide use is the leading cause of a nationwide decline of grassland bird species, beating out habitat loss, according to a new study.
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Global food giants get bad grades on environment and ethics
A new report from Oxfam finds that multinational processed food purveyors don't treat their workers or the environment very well.
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Climate change could kill big U.S. reservoirs
Lake Mead and Lake Powell could be toast as the climate gets hotter and water gets scarcer, according to a new study.
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Senators send pro-Keystone XL letter, once again drenched with oil money
Well, here we are again. Only mere days after the biggest rally and march in support of climate action and against the Keystone XL pipeline in US history, another letter has been sent by a group of Senators calling for approval of the troublesome (to say the least) Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, this time spear-headed by […]
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‘LEGO bombing’ reveals the plastic-brick framework of your city
Street artists are filling holes in crumbling buildings with LEGO bricks. Or possibly the buildings are crumbling to reveal their LEGO cores.
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Keystone scolds should let activists be activists
The climate change effort involves both negative and positive aspects -- protesting the status quo and building sustainable alternatives. Where does activism fit in?
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Scientists have discovered a tiny lost continent under the Indian Ocean
Mauritia once connected India and Madagascar, before sinking deep under the Indian Ocean.
