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Expanding Dust Bowls Worsening Food Prospects in China and Africa
By Janet Larsen When most people hear the term “dust bowl,” they think of the American heartland in the 1930s, when a homesteading wheat bonanza led to the plowing up of the Great Plains’ native grassland, culminating in the greatest environmental disaster in U.S. history. Despite warnings from researchers and some farmers, history repeated itself […]
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Global disaster costs dropped in 2012 — and in U.S., if GOP is to be believed
Insurance costs for disasters hit a three-year low worldwide. Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress are trying to shortchange Sandy victims.
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10-year-old invents light-up crosswalks, IBM makes them real
Better pedestrian infrastructure for all! And especially adorable children.
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NASA once planned to feed astronauts emergency fruitcake
You have to love any story that begins, "During the 1970s and 1980s the US military conducted a series of tests on fruitcake."
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Meet Arnold Schwarzenegger, sorta green activist and Keystone XL fan
How the former governor got that gig and what it tells us about his next chapter.
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Keystone XL wouldn’t use top-of-the-line leak detection, because that would be no fun
Hunting leaks is a great game, albeit deadly and gross.
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The Beetbox is a drum machine made of vegetables, and it actually sounds pretty good
Turns out you can make a pretty good beatbox out of actual beets.
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This old prison in Illinois may be transformed into a farming paradise
A shuttered prison facility near Peoria, Ill., may soon become a training ground for new farmers and a much-needed food distribution hub.
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This fancy bee is named after a dumb catchphrase from a sitcom
In an attempt to make people care about nature, scientists have named a bee after something a character says on TV
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Bangladesh fire shows why we can’t trust Walmart to green its supply chain
The retailer says its suppliers are going green, but as a recent factory fire revealed, Walmart won't even divulge who its suppliers are.
