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Glow-in-the-dark solar bikes = rad

If anyone hits you while you are riding this bike, provided you are still alive, you would be totally within your rights to scream at them, "Are you blind?"

Coal train derails in Maryland, killing two

The derailment occurred just west of Baltimore.

Starbucks is turning leftover scones and coffee grounds into useful stuff like plastic

The company is hoping they can come up with something a little more creative and sustainable than the current plan of incineration, composting, or disposal.

Amid drought, farmers flood social media

Parched farmers are using Twitter as a social-media-style rain gauge, a help line, and an open channel to their urban customers.

Five reasons to shop at thrift stores

An endless quest for the latest fashion trends is money-draining, space-consuming, wasteful, and takes a toll on the environment. Here's why a shift to thrift is worth it.

Feed 9 billion people? We can do that, but it’s not going to be pretty

Stanford biology professor Peter Vitousek says that our population bomb doesn't need to cause an all-out apocalypse.

Todd Akin is a moron on climate change too

Todd Akin, GOP Senate candidate in Missouri, is not only fundamentally deluded about the basic facts of women's reproductive systems. He's also fundamentally deluded about the basic facts of climate change.

Lawyers go after processed food industry with tactics that worked on Big Tobacco

In an effort to supplant government regulation, a group of high-profile lawyers plans to use the financial costs of obesity and diabetes to sue large processed food companies.

Bill Koch is building a cool Wild West town and you can’t come

The billionaire oil magnate's faux town will never be open to the public.

Here is an otter that is smarter than Todd Akin

Like Rep. Todd Akin, Nellie the sea otter does not understand how human reproduction works. But she’s never said anything offensive about rape, plus she can stack three cups! She should probably run for Congress.