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Incredible NASA images of Saudi Arabia’s careless use of water
NASA released satellite images showing that the Saudis are irrigating the desert in order to grow food -- with fossil water that accumulated during the last Ice Age and will be gone completely in 50 years.
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Mesmerizing wind map is the coolest-looking weather map ever
Data visualization wizards Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg have devised a real-time map of wind speeds in the U.S., and it beats the pants off spiky cold fronts, happy suns, and whatever else they’re putting on weather maps these days. It’s simple, elegant, and crazy hypnotic — watch it together with the lava lamp ocean currents, and […]
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The best pro-solar billboard you’ve ever seen
This is going around Facebook today — it’s actually from 2010, made in response to a specific piece of legislation, but the message here is (pardon the pun) evergreen.
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Critical List: Earth Hour around the world; GM cuts funding to Heartland Institute
A look at the news of the day.
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Labor of love: Domestic fair trade grows
Just like Fair Trade for international farms, the Food Justice Certified label is rewarding farms with fair labor practices inside the U.S.
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Ask Umbra: When should an old refrigerator be replaced?
A reader is finding it hard to part with an aging fridge. Umbra says it’s time to give the appliance the cold shoulder.
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Green goo: Sustainable meat producers market their own ‘pink slime’
Food advocates have pushed back hard against the ammonia-doused fatty beef trimmings used by Big Ag as filler in meat products. But some local food producers are fighting fire with fire -- by making their own local, sustainable version of "pink slime."
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‘We lost’: Eco-warriors, green stars throw in towel
Gore, McKibben, Ruffalo, and other movement leaders abandon the field. Looks like we're on our own, people.
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FDA on BPA: We need more time to think
In their belated response to a petition by the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Food and Drug Administration says it refuses to ban the chemical.
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Scientists use Thoreau’s journal notes to track climate change
By examining Thoreau's records of flowering dates, researchers found that Massachusetts temperatures have increased by 2.4 degrees C since the author's time.
