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Ralph Nader bashes Obama for being weak on climate, Keystone

Former Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader is accusing Obama of ignoring climate change and courting fossil-fuel donors.

These park benches have a cruel sense of humor

Jeppe Hein's benches are supposed to make you more socially engaged, but they mostly just make you feel like you're being laughed at.

Omaha teenager starts a program to donate ungrateful kids’ fruit to the hungry

Schoolkids are now required to take a fruit or vegetable at lunch, but they're not required to eat it. This teen made her classmates donate that food instead of tossing it.

This design turns New York’s parking lots into awesome prefab apartment buildings

Innovative green architects want to make neato affordable dwellings for elderly and homeless and so on -- but can't we have one just because we're kind of poor?

New York postpones fracking decision to gather information on health impacts

The state will review potential health effects of fracking before deciding whether to lift a moratorium.

World’s fastest one-liter-engine vehicle runs on cheese

Utah State University's small, speedy drag racer runs on cheese-waste-based biofuel.

Around the world in environmental news, newsreel-style

Got your popcorn? Good. Here's the news: Less cocoa, more water, more sunken treasure.

One square inch of glass will make your data live forever

It’s nigh-indestructible.

For sale: Ocean floor, ready for drillin’

The government will auction off 38 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico to fossil-fuel extractors next year.

Even as L.A. pollution drops, cars are giving kids asthma

Air pollution is down in L.A., but near highways it's still high -- and that's bad news for kids' lungs.