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Please enjoy this disco lobster
The lobster is having its day in high fashion — Anna Wintour wore one to the Met Ball — and apparently the little sea bugs are letting it go to their heads (if that is strictly a “head”). This one was apprehended off the coast of Maine (where else?), just prancing around being all orange […]
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Obscure-but-awesome energy law getting shivved by natural gas lobby
George W. Bush signed a law requiring that new federal buildings gradually eliminate consumption of fossil-fuel energy by 2030. Now the natural gas industry is trying to kill the rule.
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Monsanto WISHES it could make corn this cool
“Glass Gem” corn looks almost CGI, but it actually comes out of the ground that way. It’s the product of a small farm and a retro, handcrafted approach to agriculture — “genetic modification” from back when genetic modification meant painstaking generations of selective breeding.
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Could insects feed the world? [VIDEO]
If people in the developed world can get over the psychological barrier involved in eating insects, this video segment says, we might just find that bugs are the magical, super-efficient protein source we've been looking for.
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Psych! World won’t end this year after all
We're definitely hurtling towards doom, but take heart: At least the world isn't going to end for a stupid reason like "Mayan prophecy."
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How to save wolves: Take photos where they look like crazy mutants
Those clever ecologists at the U.S. Geological Survey have found a way to obtain information about wolves that doesn’t involve trapping them, collaring them, or shooting them with weird injections — and bonus, it makes them look like X-MAN SUPERWOLVES. Instead of messing with the animals directly, researchers are just snapping pics with infrared cameras, […]
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Will old-school green groups sleep through the Earth Summit?
Twenty years ago, major U.S. environmental groups helped rally support for the Earth Summit in Rio. Today, they can hardly be bothered with it.
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Going solar doesn’t mean you’re some weird pickler guy, say new ads
SunRun, a solar leasing company, has a handful of funny ads out.
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Critical List: Antarctic ice sheets’ soft underbellies; monkey sets traps
The undersides of Antarctic ice sheets, thought to be fairly safe for now, are melting. Robert Abbey, the head of the Bureau of Land Management, is planning to retire at the end of the month. Bill McKibben said yesterday that climate campaigners need to be “willfully naive and demand that our system work the way […]
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Umbra’s second helpings: Giving green wedding presents without looking weird
Finding a good, green wedding present can be quite the commitment. Umbra vows to help out.
