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Dead zone could break records in Gulf this year
Heavy farm runoff and heavy rainfall could lead to a New Jersey-sized dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico this year. The news for Chesapeake Bay is more upbeat.
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Fast food giants make their food look imperfect so you’ll forget it’s hella processed
Your daily creep-out: Junk food giants are trying to trick you into thinking their food looks wholesome and artisanal.
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Maybe don’t drink this billion-year-old water
In case you were wondering how billion-year-old water tastes, it sucks. Now we know.
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Hummingbird tree-sit could stop San Fran developers where occupiers failed
Could a federal law protecting wildlife monkeywrench San Francisco's housing boom?
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Oyster hatcheries put heartburn meds in the water to fight ocean acidification
Why address climate change when you could just dump Tums in the ocean? Makes perfect sense.
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Is foie gras always a faux pas? One family aims to humanely produce it
By reviving old techniques, a family farm in Spain produces foie gras without force-feeding ducks and geese.
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This is what your supermarket would look like if all the bees died off
Whole Foods did a little experiment and pulled all produce pollinated by bees. The resulting photo is crazy.
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Look who’s squealing now: GMO lovers freak over new study of sick pigs
Australian researchers recently found that genetically modified feed caused severe stomach inflammation in pigs. Critics of the study, who say these foods can cause no harm, flipped a lid.
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This video about the gross side of food will ruin your appetite for basically everything
BuzzFeed has collected all the least appetizing food facts into one handy video.
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Organic farming sucks (up carbon)
We know that organic practices help reduce greenhouse gases -- but which practices, exactly, are doing the good work?