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Unregulated bumblebee trade threatens bumblebees
Activists are pushing the U.S. government to crack down on trade practices that they say are harming native populations of bumblebees.
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This shower saves energy by letting you wash yourself in used bathwater
There's something about taking a shower in your own runoff that's delightfully meta yet gross at the same time.
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Nebraska is a loser in the wind-energy boom
The Cornhusker State is the third windiest in the union, but it ranks in the bottom half in terms of wind-power generation. Some state lawmakers are trying to change that.
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Air pollution can ruin your computer
Computers in Asia are getting the electronic equivalent of smokers' lung.
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Illinois is America’s nuclear waste capital
The U.S. has no central repository for nuclear waste, so it's piling up at power plants. Illinois now houses more of it than any other state.
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This little gizmo lets you know when you’ve stayed way too long in the shower, you jerk
You can set it up to start glaring at you when you've used too much energy.
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Will Bill de Blasio stand up for New Yorkers without cars?
The leading mayoral candidate is known as a progressive, but some of his car-centric transportation ideas are downright regressive.
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The National Review’s worst nightmare: Climate activists might win
While skeptics doubt and cynics yawn, one conservative pundit sees the movement to get colleges and governments to sell their fossil-fuel holdings as a potent threat.
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Africa’s biggest wind farm starts spinning
A new 84-turbine farm in Ethiopia will help keep the country powered when droughts slow hydropower to a trickle.
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18-year-old intern singlehandedly invents a cheap, effective water filter
If you happen to live in a place where moringa seeds are plentiful, it's the sort of thing you could build yourself pretty easily and cheaply.