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The only good coal is coal left in the ground
Is it important for U.S activists to fight coal exports? Damn straight it is.
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Now you can smell like fake whale vomit
Finally, thanks to modern science, you no longer have to feed a whale a bathing suit full of rotten fish to get a supply of precious ambergris, the whale-vomit-derived material used in perfumes. Researchers have worked out a way to reliably synthesize ambergris from plants.
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Public understanding of climate change: Getting warmer
Public belief in human-caused climate change has climbed steadily since its low point in 2010. Could the crazy weather have anything to do with it?
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For Earth Day, let’s get haiku together
Retire one haiku and inspire another one! Email. Tweet. Repeat.
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Everyone in Beijing is ditching bikes, except for the foreigners
In 1986, 60 percent of the citizens of Beijing rode bikes; now 17 percent do.
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America’s largest urban Superfund site gets cute new mascot
In order to get people excited about the process of turning the canal into something that will stop depressing local property values, the Gowanus Community Advisory Group has decided that the project needs a mascot.
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Watch plants swallow up tiny houses in this weird living artwork
Artist Rob Carter is interested in the relationship between the built environment and nature, and his newest exhibition, which opens tomorrow in New York City, features mini replicas of three homesteads — Charles Darwin’s, Henry David Thoreau’s, and Sir John Bennet Lawes’. The miniatures live in a garden of dandelions, bush beans, and corn, which […]
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Dude singlehandedly finds homes for 500 unwanted trees
Meet a Seattle resident who digs up and replants unwanted trees -- including arboreal monsters weighing up to 400 pounds.
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Critical List: Nebraska legislature kickstarts Keystone XL planning; NASA’s climate skeptics
The Nebraska legislature passed a bill that’ll kickstart planning for the rerouted Keystone XL pipeline. Turns out a bunch of former NASA employees are also climate skeptics. Canada’s unlikely to meet its 2020 goal for carbon emissions cuts.
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Farm Bill 2012: ‘It’s a mess, but it’s our mess’
Daniel Imhoff, the man who literally wrote the book on food policy, talks about democracy, debate, and why we should feel thankful for the farm bill, even in depressing years like this one.
