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PETA’s new virtual reality game could make you too chicken to eat chicken
I, Chicken, a new virtual reality game from PETA, lets you experience life as a chicken just before slaughter.
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Amtrak wait? Blame the freight
Rail is a great way to ship your stuff and yourself for a cross-country move. If only we hadn't built a system that gives slow freight the right of way.
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Perdue just says no to chicken on drugs
One big poultry producer ditches most use of antibiotics. Now it's time for the rest of the industry to follow -- and for doctors to stop overprescribing them to us.
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Will Obama do the right thing on smog this time?
Over the coming year, the president will either repeat or undo one of his greatest insults to the environmental community -- and to the nation's air quality.
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E.U. bans energy-sucking vacuums. Hairdryers could be next.
High-powered vacuum cleaners just bit the dust in the name of climate change. Hairdryers and electric kettles could be next.
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The cynical money person’s guide to our renewable energy future
Banks looking into trends in renewable energy investment like what they see -- for reasons that have almost nothing to do with the, you know, planet.
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Why we really should care about boosting farm yields
Getting farms to produce more food may not be the answer to all the world's problems. But it's a problem we're still going to need to answer somehow.
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Why coal is (still) worse than fracking and cow burps
Geoscientist Raymond Pierrehumbert argues that carbon dioxide is always worse than shorter-lived pollutants like methane.
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Thanks to fracking, there’s something in the water in Pennsylvania
Now that we have 243 pieces of evidence that fracking is not GREAT for the people who live near it, can we stop pretending otherwise?
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Booze is proof nature wants us to be happy
Cultivation, fermentation, distillation: A glass of brandy is made possible by millennia of conspiracy between nature and technology, orchestrated by human beings.