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Meet the breakfast cereals that want to destroy you
The average children's breakfast cereal contains more than twice as much sugar as ice cream, and a dozen brands pack more than 50 percent sugar.
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Enviros bash industry-backed “green” building program
The Sierra Club and Greenpeace are teaming up to expose the industry forces behind the Green Globes certification system.
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Hector the Lump of Coal will make you miss Barney (and that’s saying something)
You can print out a fun Hector mask -- it won't protect your lungs when coal trains go by, but at least you'll look cute!
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Bribes, favors, and a billion-dollar yacht: Inside the crazy world of the men who do oil companies’ dirty work
Journalist Ken Silverstein gained unprecedented access to a hyper-reclusive cabal of powerful billionaires.
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Ron Burgundy is struggling with incontinence — the oil well, I mean
I don’t know how to put this, but oil leaks are kind of a big deal. And they're all over the place.
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Oh, Snapchat: Your smartphone just became a climate scientist
Citizen science connects researchers, enviros, and tech whizzes to figure out new ways to protect our planet.
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The Oatmeal’s illustrated love letter to Tesla
The artist has created a huge illustration to extol his Telsa Model S -- or Intergalactic SpaceBoat of Light and Wonder, as he calls it.
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End fossil fuel burning, save $71 trillion — and preserve civilization as we know it
Two new reports outline the economic boons that would follow if we would just dump our climate-wrecking dirty-energy addiction.
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A whole lot of oil spilled in the U.S. in 2013
Drillers spilled 26 million gallons of oil and related contaminants last year. That's how much spilled during 11 days of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
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With collective intelligence, scientists learn it’s your thoughts that count
From crowdsourcing to citizen science, we'll be exploring how tech could change the ways we learn about and address climate change.
