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Who needs Keystone when you could build a tar-sands pipeline through Alaska?
The oil industry and its political lackeys are cooking up a new scheme to get Alberta's oil to coastal ports.
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There’s a scary toxin in your beer can, and it isn’t alcohol
BPA is in beer cans -- even your local, small-batch, organic smoked stout.
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We need to talk about your old basement TV
By collecting old electronics instead of replacing them, we're making the energy efficiency of new devices kind of meaningless.
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That’s not a sheep, it’s a WiFi router! (It’s also a sheep.)
As farm animals help expand networks in rural areas, side effects could include decreased attention spans and ruminanty Facebook rants.
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This map shows the freakiest places to ride a bike in NYC
This is your brain. This is your brain wired up with electrodes and forced to pedal through New York's terrifying concrete jungle.
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Is it greener to buy a new car or drive the old one into the ground?
A reader is feline unsure about buying a new, fuel-efficient car. Umbra says it's better to make the leap, and she's not lion.
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Whales, fed up with being fished, take revenge on fishermen
In Alaska, once overfished sperm whales are striking back against fishermen by eating all of their fish. This is one whale's tale.
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Now BP and Shell will consider the cost of climate change when doing business
Both oil giants have agreed to support shareholder resolutions that will make them take global warming a little more seriously.
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2 years ago, the bad guys pledged to go good on rainforests. How’d they do?
Asia Pulp and Paper said it would stop cutting down Indonesian forests. Now, green groups say, it has delivered on much of its promises.
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These magic CO2-dissolving capsules want to save the world
Scientists think they've found a new technology for pulling carbon from the air, and it looks like weird fish roe.
