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Walmart keeps bragging about its green initiatives — but its emissions keep soaring:

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Researchers killed the oldest living animal … to prove it was the oldest living animal:

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The pope opposes fracking:

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Super Typhoon Haiyan, a.k.a. Yolanda, devastated the Philippines:

Polluters can’t take communion, says archbishop of Naples:

The Texas attorney general dug a well to get around lawn-watering regulations during a drought: