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![People shout slogans as they march during a protest against plans to expand a petrochemical plant in Ningbo, Zhejiang province October 28, 2012.]()
![People shout slogans as they march during a protest against plans to expand a petrochemical plant in Ningbo, Zhejiang province October 28, 2012.]()
Chinese protesters kill plans for chemical plant expansion
Activists in Ningbo, China, hit the streets and succeeded in scuttling plans to expand a plant that produces the chemical paraxylene, or PX.
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Romney doesn’t want to talk about preparing for or responding to Sandy
Last year, Mitt Romney said the federal government should get out of the emergency-management business. Now he's not saying anything at all.
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Your car might be made out of recycled beans, pants, and money
Garbage is bad. Oil spills are bad. But when you can use them to make cars, they become kinda useful.
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Oysters could have helped save New York from Sandy
They're basically the coral reefs of the Northeast.
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Superstorm Sandy
Much of New Jersey, New York City and elsewhere definitely got hit very hard by Superstorm Hurricane Sandy yesterday: several feet of sand covering roads close to the ocean in Point Pleasant and probably elsewhere—50 or so homes burned down in Queens—extensive flooding of the lower Manhattan NYC subways—7 million or more customers without power—blizzard […]
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New York City’s latest massive disaster
The most effective predictor of who would be spared the worst impacts: elevation.
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The Netherlands is getting a glow-in-the-dark highway
This is the Netherlands, which means it’s only a matter of time before they put this technology to work in bike lanes, too.
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The most stunning images from monster storm Sandy
Well, that was a hell of a storm. Here's what it looked like up close.
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Here is a toilet that’s good at soccer
Never at a loss to create something totally weird, two Japanese companies have built a goalkeeping toilet. And it's supposed to be green somehow.
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The Great Pumpkin chat: Join us for a live discussion on Halloween
Curious about organic jack-o'-lanterns, the canned pumpkin industry, and the role the gourd can play in the good food movement? Check out a replay of our conversation with pumpkin expert Cindy Ott.
