Climate Culture
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In London, you can get local beer delivered to your desk every Friday
"Why drink something that gets shipped round the world to get to you, when the best is right here?"
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Pollution is making Chinese sperm damaged and “ugly”
When sperm starts getting long and repulsive, you KNOW it's time to address air quality.
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Thoughts on slavery, environmental destruction, and the will to survive
As we wrote recently, the new film "12 Years a Slave" is a story of human and environmental abuse. Here's what we learned from your responses.
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Evil genius takes liberty with maps, floods your city
Andrew David Thaler is a marine scientist by day. But by night, he works his magic with Google maps to show people what their cities will look like if climate change is left unchecked.
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Texas attorney general is going to great lengths to water his lawn during drought
Note: There's a terrible, terrible drought going on in Texas.
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Home Depot will trade in your energy-wasting Christmas lights for LEDs
But only for the next few days.
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Someone left 423 protected tortoises on a baggage carousel in Thailand
Authorities found two "unusually heavy bags" abandoned on the baggage carousel.
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Bacon deodorant extends the bacon trend beyond the bounds of tolerability
Wasn’t bacon over like several years ago? Why can't we smell like kale instead?
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Your plastic garbage is killing whales
Dead whales keep washing up with stomachs full of golf balls, latex gloves, rope, and plastic bags.
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Ask Umbra: Is my shampoo poisoning the planet?
A reader wonders how to suds her tresses without making unseen ecological messes. Umbra delivers the clean truth.