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This gross story about a human tooth in a sausage might prompt you to go vegetarian

A British couple found a tooth in their sausage. The supermarket where they bought the sausage says it's a bone. Someone is lying here.

China is getting serious about taming coal

The most worrisome energy trend in the world is rising coal consumption in China. But Chinese officials have announced an ambitious new plan to curb that growth.

Clean Energy Continues to Break Records, Lead the Way

Here are two headlines from the past week that blew me away (no pun intended): #1- Wind was the top new energy source to come online in 2012. #2- “Renewable-energy capacity in the U.S. almost doubled from 2009 to 2012, helping reduce the nation’s carbon-dioxide emissions last year to the lowest since 1994…” With every […]

Alaska ignores climate change, so Iditarod dogs will just need to evolve thinner coats

Warning: This post may make you sympathetic to Sarah Palin.

New York hires seismologist with fracking industry ties to do fracking research

On the plus side, it's a step forward in an otherwise interminable process.

Use this fantasy high-speed rail map to plan your epic train adventure

New York to Chicago? That looks to be about, oh, five or so hours to us.

Former Interior Secretary Babbitt calls for one acre of conservation for every acre of oil exploration

Bruce Babbitt says Obama hasn't been protecting enough public land and should stand up to Big Oil and bad Republicans.

Don’t worry about BP; it’s going to be fine

The oil giant made billions in profits last year, and brought in billions from U.S. gov't contracts, despite that messy thing in the Gulf.

Now even birds can find their homes using Google Maps markers

Artist Shuchun Hsiao he has an ongoing project in which he puts up birdhouses that look like Google Map markers.

Naked Ben Kingsley holding an octopus

It's a campaign to raise awareness of naked Ben Kingsley holding an octopus. I mean of overfishing.