Climate Culture
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It’s the first day of spring! Here comes the toxic green sludge
Predictions of heavy spring rains bode poorly for the health of Lake Erie, where agricultural runoff is expected to cause massive algae blooms.
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Bears in Russia are getting high by huffing airplane fuel
Not to be a narc or anything, but animals get high a LOT. And these Russian bears have figured out how to get high off gasoline fumes.
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Mini-mansions are all the rage
Both industrial designers and industrious teens alike are engineering tiny paragons of sustainable living. Behold some of our recent favorites.
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Thanks for the oil, Iraq, here’s some cancer
Depleted uranium from U.S. munitions is suspected of causing a huge spike in birth defects and all kinds of cancers in Iraq.
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Why in the world are so many manatees dying?
Manatees are dying off both Florida coasts, and by God we want the culprit brought to justice! (It's probably us.)
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How scientists are bringing this weird, extinct, baby-barfing frog back from the dead
The frog DNA sat around for 40 years before scientists used cloning technology to bring the species back to life.
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Watch a penguin play games on an iPad
Considering that touch screens are not exactly optimized for seabird use, they're actually pretty good at it.
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Red, Bike & Green wants to shift the color balance in bicycling
The Bay Area's bicycling culture was lacking in the diversity department. Jenna Burton set out to change that.
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You eat less if you know exactly how many miles you’ll have to walk to burn it off
A recent study shows little changes to menus can make a big difference to health outcomes.
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This guy built an authentic passenger rail car in his basement
To make this subterranean transit-geek wonderland, self-described "train-obsessed nutcase" Jason Shron went in with a friend on a decades-old train car that was slated to be scrapped.
