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Once a year, this waterfall looks like a stream of falling lava
Photographers trek to the park in that brief window to catch the red, streaming falls, with beautiful results.
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Please enjoy this cartoon of tubby, fast-food-eating animals rolling around like balls
It's a two-minute video of fat, round, bouncing animals.
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Opening Pandora’s Lunchbox: Processed foods are even scarier than you thought
Writer Melanie Warner spent a year and a half exploring the processed-food industry. Here are her unappetizing discoveries.
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Sanders Moore hopes sunny New Mexico gets enchanted with solar
This young activist is fighting to harness the power of the sun in one of the sunniest states in the nation. Fail, she says, and it could be shutters for New Mexico’s famous chile.
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After Sandy, scientists hunt for sewage in New York City’s harbors
Researchers are heading out to sea for a forensic look at the storm’s impacts.
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Can Yahoo be more ‘efficient’ with more workers driving to the office?
What could this decision mean for other telecommuters, and for the planet?
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Notoriously polluting Carnival Cruise Lines faces legal troubles
Legal actions against Carnival cruise ships don't call out its eco-ills, but we'll take what we can get.
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Socially and sexually deviant species of octopus shares room with preteen girl
They discovered a new kind of octopus. In the 70's. But we're just talking about it now because it's roomates with a 10-year-old girl.
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How now, happy cow? Why I deferred my reckoning with meat
Six weeks without meat left our provisional vegetarian still hungering for flesh, so she visited some farms and gave herself more time to think it over.
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Organic tomatoes are healthier for you, researchers find
Organically grown tomatoes contain more vitamin C and cancer-fighting phenols than their conventional peers, according to a new study.
