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We’re coming for you, Cuba
Cuba's an environmental oasis? Wait until the U.S. shows up.
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So now we have beautiful underwater greenhouses. Why? Why not!
They're already producing strawberries, basil, and lettuce -- all at 20 feet below sea level.
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Lego wants to remake its famous bricks with sustainable plastic
The toy company wants to lighten its carbon footprint by making those stray Legos more eco-friendly. Our actual feet, however, will never be safe.
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Who protects electronic workers from toxic chemicals?
Inside the story of the hundreds of lawsuits filed against IBM in the late 1990s on behalf of cancer-stricken workers.
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Here’s why you shouldn’t worry about the Supreme Court’s latest environmental ruling
The court threw a wrench in Obama's mercury rule for power plants, but the real-world impacts should be negligible to nonexistent.
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Scientists take a page from super cows and engineer double-bacon hogs
Twice the muscle means twice the meat in these gene-edited hogs, fresh from the lab in South Korea.
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London will try to beat traffic and air pollution with this new electric bus
The Old Smoke's famous double-decker bus might be getting a whole lot greener.
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GM wheat trial fails, but science wins anyway
British researchers tried to engineer a kind of wheat that would repel bugs without need for insecticide. They failed, but they still learned a lot.
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The Supreme Court just punched a hole in Obama’s plan to clean up power plants
The court ruled 5-4 that the EPA didn't properly take costs into account when regulating emissions of mercury and other toxic pollutants.
