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Ask Umbra: Are GMO sugar beets bad for the birds?
A reader wonders if she's harming hummingbirds. Umbra busts out her binoculars and goes looking for answers.
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Street artist makes city trash into fantastic creatures
Spanish artist Francisco de Pájaro turns cardboard, garbage bags, discarded furniture, and other refuse into monsters.
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These floating jellyfish are your Labor Day weekend mascots
While you are waiting for the boss to say, "Hey, everyone take off early!" why not channel the vibe of these chill golden jellyfish?
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Five things you probably didn’t know about being a tar-sands worker
It sounds pretty bleak.
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To avoid diabetes, eat fruit, don’t drink fruit juice
New research found that people who ate whole fruits were 23 percent less likely to develop type 2 diabetes than those who avoided them. Blueberries are particularly healthalicious.
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The week in GIFs: Foxes, kittens, and panties
It's time to get naked and start a (bike) fight.
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You could adopt the kittens who shut down the New York subway
For a few hours yesterday, these were the most powerful kittens in the world. And soon they could be yours.
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Watch a baby pygmy slow loris snuggle with its teddy bear
It's the animal version of Zooey Deschanel. Somebody get it a tiny ukelele.
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Don’t diss dung beetles — they’re cooling the planet
Quit talking shit about dung beetles. On a good day, they reduce the methane from cow patties by 80 percent!
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Green ole opry: Susan Werner sings sweet songs of sustainability
Her songs about pesticides, frankenfoods, climate change, and selling the family farm have struck a chord with farmers both old and young.
