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Bite your nails, then cry like an infant as conservationists rescue a baby elephant from a well
Clear your schedule. This one is going to keep you and your feelings busy for a while.
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Peanut recall expands, horrifies lovers of organic peanutty snacks
Three weeks in, the peanut recall is still expanding -- and its hitting organic foods the hardest.
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Entirely vegetarian cheeseburger is made out of leaves
Technically it's not edible. But it's really pretty!
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How your tax dollars subsidize cheap energy in China
The U.S. government lets coal companies mine public lands for cheap. Increasingly, that coal is shipped to Asia instead of burned here at home.
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They’re giving away free trees to plant in Philly!
Two per household. And you have to own the house, and plant it on your property, not the sidewalk. Those are the rules. Go for it.
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Overgrown: What happens when urban farms get too big?
As the number of city farms spanning more than 20 acres goes up, some worry: Are they suburbanizing cities?
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U.S. Wind Project Size [Infographic]
Big dreams for renewable energy often goad people into imagining big wind projects, with hundreds of turbines. But lots of smaller projects are just as likely to add up to big numbers. Counting wind projects from 1999-2010 (based on data from LBNL’s excellent Wind Technologies Market report) the average size of an American wind project […]
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Stopping the next great extinction could cost just $11.42 per person per year
This is according to a new study in Science, which estimates that it would cost $80 billion per year to stop extinction.
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Devoted under-consumer feeds her friends a meal made of trash
A woman on the TLC show Extreme Cheapskates gave her friends a dinner picked from the trash. Uh ... check please?
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Leaves are changing color later than they used to
A new study finds that autumn leaf-drop is falling back, and climate change is likely to blame.
