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Pirates on Africa’s west coast have a new target: Oil

Nigeria is home to a booming oil industry and black-market refineries. That makes oil tankers along West Africa look awfully tempting.

Campaign to label frankenfoods goes viral

It lost in California, but now Connecticut, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington, and Vermont are all considering GMO labeling laws.

Turbine in the U.K. converts wind power into kinetic, falling-over energy

We're sure opponents of wind turbines won't mention this in the future.

Marktown, Ind., a historic town shivering in BP’s dark shadow

The century-old community may soon be razed so that an adjacent BP refinery can spill over its borders.

This bicycle barometer makes deciding how to get to work super easy

Turn it on, and it indicates which mode of transportation—subway or bike—is likely the best choice

Hagel suggests vague support for continued military use of biofuels

We read the tea leaves, since odds are that Hagel won't be asked about biofuels during his confirmation hearings.

Professional athletes are spraying deer antler velvet into their mouths

There is a great kerfuffle in the sports world over a bunch of football players who have been taking performance-enhancing supplements containing extracts from deer antler velvet.

NYC’s newest subway line is actually beginning to look like a subway

According to the available evidence, it might actually open one of these days. It might even actually be cool.

Shell made a ‘disappointing’ $62 million in profit each day over the last three months

One reason that number was so very, very low was disappointing sales of tar-sands oil.

Humans have already set in motion 69 feet of sea-level rise

Glaciologist Jason Box describes a post-warming world that you won’t even be able to recognize.