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Need to charge your phone while herding? There’s an ass for that
Turkish herders found the most obvious solution to keeping their cellphones juiced: solar panels on donkeys.
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In the Colombian rainforest, an experiment in community-driven climate protection
The Tolo River community sells carbon credits to corporations via a United Nations program called REDD. The rewards go far beyond just money.
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GMO labeling initiative heads to the ballot in Oregon
Similar ballot measures have failed in California and Washington. Have the Oregon activists learned from those defeats?
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Smile! Satellites can see your illegal fishing from space
With high-powered surveillance, it may be possible to solve the problem of pirate fishing on the open seas once and for all.
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This organic food company is refusing to pay for employees’ birth control
Just like Hobby Lobby, Eden Foods has sued the Obama administration, claiming its owner's religious rights should trump employees' rights to access contraception.
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Is this pipeline company ready for some whale hazing?
If an expanded pipeline in Canada threatens migrating whales in the Pacific with an oil spill, the energy company in charge knows just what to do.
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Retracted Roundup-fed rat research republished
The scientists behind the controversial study that linked GMO-fueled herbicides with sickness in lab rats have also now published some of their data.
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Latest sign that the end is nigh: You can now get a “ride share” in a helicopter
The ride-sharing company Uber has teamed up with with Blade, an outfit that offers Uber-like services for those in desperate need of a chopper.
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With one more nail in its coffin, is Keystone XL history?
South Dakota's permit to build the pipeline just expired, making it that much harder for Transcanada to resume construction -- whatever the Obama administration decides.
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Hopefully NASA won’t screw up its CO2-measuring satellite this time
On Tuesday, NASA is launching a new satellite to measure atmospheric CO2 from space. The previous one of its kind crashed into the ocean.
