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Wrestling baby bears stop traffic
This is why we have national parks, people: So there's one place in the country where "share the road" means "stop your damn car so baby bears can have a little tussle."
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It takes a village to save a drowning farm
After Hurricane Irene, soaked farmers are trying to get by with a little help from their friends.
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Environmental leaders to Congress: Don't stop funding conservation on farms
A coalition of 56 influential policy organizations are working to ensure that clean air and water remain at the center of the Farm Bill discussion.
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MythBusters weigh in on motorcycle emissions
You've probably heard that motorcycles are more fuel-efficient than cars, and therefore better for the environment. I mean, they're practically bikes, right? It sounds plausible, but how do you find out if it's really true? The same way you find out if ANYTHING is really true: Ask the MythBusters, obviously.
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China may emit more carbon per person than U.S. by 2017
China is now the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, but its per-capita emissions are still less than those of the average U.S. citizen. In six years, that could flip, says a new report from the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency that was sponsored by the European Commission. Current U.S. per-capita emissions are 16.9 […]
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Global investment in clean energy blowin' the hell up
Global total new investment in clean energy 2004-10 ($BN)
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How Congress is turning America into China
Reading news from Washington D.C., while spending a week in China, it seems to me that some members of Congress are backing policies that would make America much more like China — without any of the economic benefits. The House voted last week 249 to 169 to curtail the EPA’s ability to reduce air pollution […]
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How to care for your 6-foot Rick Perry chia head
If you have a spare $4,500 lying around, you can now own a Rick Perry chia head that's as tall as Rick Perry.
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Cantaloupe food poisoning outbreak is now the deadliest in 12 years
Don't tell Michele Bachmann, but it turns out that when food isn't adequately regulated, you can get giant deadly food poisoning outbreaks. Most recently, a crop of listeria-tainted cantaloupe has now killed 13 people officially, and possibly as many as 16 -- shooting right past the salmonella episode three years ago that killed nine. This is the most deaths from contaminated food since a 1998 listeria outbreak that killed 21.
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Company that created Alaskan ‘dead zone’ has to pay to clean it up
Dumping buckets of fish guts into the ocean turns out not to be so good for the ecosystems involved. Basically, the more dead fish you put in the water, the fewer live fish can survive there. Off the coast of Alaska, one seafood processor has created "a massive wasteland of fish guts about 50 acres or more … a dead zone."
The processor, Seattle-based Trident, now has to pay $30 to 40 million to clean up its mess (plus, stop dumping so many damn fish innards into the sea).
