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This bacterium eats toxic liquid and poops out gold
Cupriavidus metallidurans can eat toxic gold chloride and excrete pure gold. This is not so useful as science. But it makes good art!
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Finally! Chipotle signs deal to pay tomato pickers more
The agreement brings an end to a long fight between the restaurant chain and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers.
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How to make energy journalism better
Media critic Jay Rosen asked David Roberts what kind of energy journalism the world needs. Here's the answer.
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Green group buys up Wyoming oil leases to stop drilling
The Trust for Public Land has struck a deal to buy $8.75 million worth of oil and gas leases, to make sure the oil and gas don't get drilled.
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More jobs lost as wind tax credit nears expiration. Congress, you listening?
A ball-bearing manufacturer in South Carolina announces plans to close a plant, thanks to GOP unwillingness to extend a key wind tax credit.
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Bet you never knew ice could make this sound
The Russian percussion group Ethnobeat has turned Lake Baikal, the world's oldest lake, into a 12,000-square-mile drum kit.
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Texas grandmother arrested for trespassing on her own land to protest Keystone
TransCanada seized a 78-year-old woman's land for its tar-sands pipeline, and she got arrested for protesting. TransCanada blames "out-of-state activists."
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Chicago pot farm takes urban agriculture to its logical conclusion
It's local, it's thriving, and -- oh, yeah -- it can get you high.
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Scientists create digital watch powered by cyborg lobsters
We are not making this up: that is what scientists at Clarkson University and the University of Vermont College of Medicine call them.
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With fuel prices spiking in southern California, gas stations close up shop
Only temporarily mind you. And there's additional bad news for jet owners.
