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If you’re 27 or younger, you’ve never experienced a colder-than-average month
Astonishing: If you were born in or after April 1985, you have never lived through a month that was colder than average.
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Ecuador’s dropping 22 tons of poison on the Galapagos to kill 180 million rats
The rats first came to the islands in the 1600s, aboard ships from far away, and on a steady diet of eggs and baby tortoises, lizards, snakes and now-endangered birds species, they multiplied.
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Hostess is going out of business, but Twinkies will live forever
The problem the company faced wasn't its food, it was its accounting.
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They’ve made a car for women, and, surprise, it’s pink
Other than that -- just a car. It doesn't even have glittery exhaust.
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These numbers will help you feel grateful, not wasteful
Turkey doesn't grow on trees (yeah, OK -- it'd be really weird if it did). So why do we waste almost one-third of the turkey we buy?
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Umbra’s second helpings: How to make organic Twinkies [VIDEO]
Hankering for a Twinkie? The Hostess with the mostess shows you how to make your own.
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Occupy’s ‘Rolling Jubilee’ is a model for cooperative purchasing power
Could Occupy Wall Street's "People's Bailout" be scaled up to bail out the environment?
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Americans less optimistic about Obama’s environmental impact
A new poll shows Americans are not as hopeful about Obama's ability to make positive environmental change as they were in 2008.
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Three battle plans for fixing climate in Obama’s second term
To charge ahead on climate action, Obama could follow one of these three paths to victory, ripped from military history.
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Dole sued over dirty banana plantation
The world's largest producer of fresh fruits and veggies is accused of destroying wetlands and local farms in Guatemala.
