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Report confirms fisheries are suffering, but offers hope
More than half the world’s fisheries are overexploited, and small-scale fisheries, the kind that disproportionately feed the world’s hungry (think of reef-fish which are decimated by industrial-sized fishing vessels) have it the worst according to a new study published last week by researchers at the University of California and the University of Washington. That’s the […]
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The Ohio State University will soon be 25 percent wind-powered
OSU has signed a deal to get about 25 percent of its power from a wind farm, which will make the school 100 percent better than Michigan.
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For you hipster entomologists, here’s a caterpillar that looks just like bacon
Supposedly this weird living bacon is actually a moth caterpillar. Made of bacon.
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Notorious Northern Virginia coal plant officially retires
On a scorching hot day last July, I stood on the deck of a boat on the Potomac River and introduced Michael R. Bloomberg, philanthropist and mayor of New York City, who was there to announce a game-changing gift to the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign. Behind us was the notorious, polluting Potomac River coal plant in […]
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The Confluence Project is photographing every latitude/longitude intersection on Earth
Although volunteers have visited more than a third of the accessible confluence points, there are 10,166 out there waiting to be visited.
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McDonald’s video claims their beef is not really that bad
McDonald's makes a video to show people that their beef is as pure as the driven snow, and even includes a few lol questions from wary consumers.
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TransCanada protests reveal a bum deal for Texas landowners
Sign the contract or have your land seized, TransCanada tells landowners. Luca Brasi would feel right at home.
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Tsunami of ‘chemical deodorant’ foam floods Chinese village
What would you think if you saw a giant wall of doom-bubbles advancing on you down the river? PANIC.
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Human-made 50-ton rainbow proves you’re not in Kansas anymore
Culver City, Calif., where the Wizard of Oz was filmed, is getting an infusion of magic and hope in the form of a 100,000-pound rainbow.
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How Apple Maps could save the planet
When it comes to energy efficiency, Apple Maps blows Google Maps out of the water.
