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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.
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Tip for getting people to use the metro system: Block all the roads
Parisian cabbies are allegedly protesting Uber by blocking roads, but we know what they're REALLY doing.
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Farmed fish are breaking out of their pens at an alarming rate
Fish escaping from aquaculture pens is a really big problem, with a really great name: Fishbreaks!
