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Golden Rice: Fool’s gold or golden opportunity?
Sure, Big Ag might use the controversial genetically engineered rice as a stalking horse -- but if it's able to help save hundreds of thousands of lives, maybe it deserves a chance.
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Fukushima keeps on leaking, Japan keeps on issuing confusing explanations
More than 300 tons of highly radioactive water leaked from the crippled nuclear power plant last week. So what else is new?
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U.S. government paid $17 billion for weather-withered crops last year
A lot of that expense could have been avoided if the Federal Crop Insurance Program encouraged farmers to use conservation-oriented techniques, says NRDC.
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Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant to shutter
More bad news for the nuclear industry: Entergy Corp. announced Tuesday that it will power down the plant next year.
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Wind turbines don’t hurt property values
The most comprehensive study to date finds that the construction of wind farms near homes does not lower home sale prices.
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Drill next door: Here’s what it looks like when fracking moves in
Drilling rigs pop up in suburban neighborhoods like mushrooms overnight.
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Beer vs. oil: Beer wins
A Michigan microbrewery has defeated an oil company, proving that there is some good left in the world.
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Nike built a store in China out of trash
DVDs turned into foldable ceiling panels, water bottles turned into tension cables, and cans turned into metal joints.
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New app lets you hack the streets
It's time to take the streets back from the the transportation engineers -- even if it's only for pretend.
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Shooting the well: The petroleum torpedoes of the early oil fields
Almost immediately after we started drilling wells, we started fracturing the rocks underground to increase the flow of fossil fuels.