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Faster, higher, stranger: 5 sports for a snow-free Winter Olympics
The games are toast, as Sochi has shown us. But don’t fret, sports fans! There’s life after sub-zero temperatures.
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Here’s a new, cute way to eat animals without guilt or cruelty
If you're gonna eat animals, they might as well be adorable animals made out of rice and eggs, right?
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Cows make more milk when listening to R.E.M.
Slow jams boosted milk output by 3 percent -- and here's your suggested bovine mixtape.
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America could have been a nation of hippopotamus eaters
One booster apparently tried to influence reporters by feeding them hippo jerky.
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Finnish reindeer now have glowing antlers to protect them from cars
Finnish reindeer actually belong to reindeer herders, who'd like to keep them alive.
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Rents in this North Dakota oil town are now higher than in NYC or San Francisco
Blame fracking. In the boomtown of Williston, N.D., a 700-square-foot, one-bedroom apartment can cost more than $2,000 per month.
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This little green laser could save bicyclists’ lives
The Blaze Laserlight could help drivers realize a cyclist is in their blind spot. Sweet!
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Pharrell is making jeans out of recycled ocean plastic
Think there's any chance customers won't get a plastic shopping bag to carry their reycled plastic duds in?
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Ask Umbra: How do I clean my too-green roof?
A reader is on a mission to rid her roof of moss. Umbra says the ladder days are coming.
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Russian enviro who criticized Olympics sentenced to three years of forced labor
Yevgeny Vitishko publicized the appalling environmental damage caused by Olympic preparations, and Russian officials didn't like that.