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Ask Umbra: What’s up with those ‘DO NOT EAT’ packets in shoeboxes and pill bottles?
A reader wonders what to do with those silica gel packs that come with vitamins and shoes. Umbra offers her a chill pill.
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Meatifest destiny: How Big Meat is taking over the Midwest
With more factory farms, bigger meat processing facilities, and growing numbers of immigrant workers, it looks like Cargill and Co. might be priming the Midwest to produce meat for the world.
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How Peabody gets dirt-cheap land and the rest of us get a gigaton of carbon pollution
In the Bureau of Land Management's corrupt coal-leasing program, taxpayer-owned land is leased at "auctions" where companies like Peabody are often the only bidder.
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Rio grand: Scenes from the Earth Summit [SLIDESHOW]
The Earth Summit in Rio may be over, but just like spring break, the triumphs, tragedies, and terrible judgment calls will live on in memory. Here are some of our favorite moments captured in all their photographic glory.
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Earthlings: Bad at not emitting carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide output in 2010 was higher than any prior year. Nice work, all.
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NYC’s homeless bee swarms are good for bees, scary
A report this week from the New York Times indicates that bee swarms are increasing in the city. While a debatable point, having more bees would almost certainly be a good thing.
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These weed-eating goats make more money than you
Staten Island’s Freshkills Park, a former landfill that’s being transformed into a public parkland and “laboratory for green practices,” is engaging in job creation — for goats. Twenty Anglo-Nubian goats are nibbling away at invasive weeds called phragmites, as one step of the wetlands restoration process that will turn Freshkills less killy and more fresh. […]
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This video might ruin cute animal videos for you forever
Hey, remember that video with the slow loris being tickled? The one that used to make me laugh until I peed? Yeah, well, get ready to never want to watch it again, after you watch this video of a Jakarta animal market selling lorises and other exotic and domestic pets.
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Arnold ‘Terminates’ commitment to Rio Earth Summit
Arnold Schwarzenegger skips out on a mostly lame Rio+20, robbing the world of at least five chances for "I'll be back" to weave its way into speeches about sustainable development.
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Insane bird’s-eye view of the Colorado wildfires
A National Guard member who was called in to tackle the wildfires currently raging in Colorado shot this amazing aerial view, and a member of the unit posted it on Reddit, where he and some other firefighting experts answered a few questions as well.
