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Homeland Security breaks up cheese-smuggling ring

Cheese is expensive in Canada. Really expensive.

Sarah Laskow Food

This London butcher is selling fake human meat, and it is INCREDIBLY TRAUMATIC

Just keep telling yourself "it's only animal meat that someone has lovingly sculpted into the shape of human meat." On second thought, that won't help at all.

Jess Zimmerman Food

BP fined after it fails surprise spill-containment inspections

I'm sure you're stunned.

Philip Bump Technology

High schoolers run a solar-powered treatment plant that will give clean water to 750 families in India

This solar-powered water treatment plant, which will make 1,300 gallons of clean water every day, is owned and operated by high school students.

Sarah Miller Uncategorized

Southern sustainability: Asheville’s Maggie Ullman says her city is greener than you think

The manager of Asheville, N.C.’s sustainability office talks about her Twitter profile, making sustainability pay, and how her city is blowing Portland out of the water.

Darby Minow Smith Culture

Pork barrel spending: How Big Ag lobbyists use federal dollars to protect factory farms

A recent lawsuit accused the pork industry of using industry marketing or "checkoff" funds to keep pigs in factory farms.

Tom Laskawy Food

Deadly connection: New report on extreme weather and climate change

The links between climate change and costly, deadly weather events are robust and well-documented, according to a report from Reps. Ed Markey and Henry Waxman.

Ed Markey & Henry Waxman Climate & Energy

Georgia Power makes a big bet on solar

There's good reason to do so: Georgia has experienced a number of problems with hot weather leading to decreased fossil energy output.

Philip Bump Technology

New York City sees spike in traffic deaths, harbor poop

The mayor's annual survey of statistics in the New York City has some good pieces of news -- and two particularly bad ones.

Philip Bump Culture

How did we let another country beat us to pizza-encrusted candy bars?

America, I still believe in your ability to bang two junk foods together and make something horrible. But Pizza Hut Middle East scooped you on the pizza-dough-coated Kit-Kats.