Climate Culture
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Your holiday wreath could be made of stolen branches
Thieves sneak onto land and chop off tree branches -- or whole trees -- in order to get at the supple tips that wreath-makers prize.
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Watch baby frogs freakishly pop out of their mom’s skin
Warning: This puts the “graphic” in “National Geographic.”
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Reddit’s science forum banned climate deniers. Why don’t all newspapers do the same?
One of the moderators of the science page on social news site reddit explains why they ousted climate-skeptic commenters and what they learned in the process.
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Ask Umbra: Does antibacterial soap work better than the old-school variety?
A reader wonders if he caught his roommate's cold because the dish soap didn't kill the germs. Umbra says suds are nothing to sneeze at.
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How to kill your car: From Dragon Wagon to bike paradise
The author thought it was going to be hard to ditch his personal truckster. It turned out to be easier than he imagined. Read part 1 of Nathanael Johnson's car-free adventures.
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How is parking like a sandwich?
In parking, as with ham-on-rye, there is no free lunch.
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Washing our hands in hot water is using as much carbon as Barbados, and it’s not doing a damn thing
Sure, hot water can kill bacteria, but it has to be so hot that it would scald your skin.
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The week in GIFs: Jennifer Lawrence edition
Now catching fire: Katniss, climate change, our impatience for the weekend.
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Factory farms fed cows the mess from the bottom of chicken cages
There's always one more additional, disgusting detail of factory farming that you've overlooked.
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This sexy cyclist calendar features a slightly unsettling human-bike romance
Nope, definitely nothing creepy about a woman unzipping her jeans while staring at the bike propped expectantly on her bed. Not at all.