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Ask Umbra: Is it OK to shop at IKEA?
A reader urges her boyfriend to choose upcycled furniture over IKEA indulgence. Umbra pulls up a chair to the negotiating table.
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The genetically modified food debate: Where do we begin?
If we look past the rhetoric on both sides and review the science with an open mind and a skeptical eye, surely we can arrive at some trustworthy conclusions. Right?
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This fish farm gives a portion of its product to predators
Veta La Palma takes sustainable fish farming to a whole new level.
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Can bringing wetlands back to our coasts protect us from future megastorms?
Landscape architect Kevin Shanley says human-made marshes can act as buffers against storm surges, but will they be enough to save us from the rising seas?
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Solar-powered sedan hits Dutch streets
Stella is a solar-powered prototype car with a range of 270 miles, room for four plus luggage -- and a steering wheel that swells and shrinks.
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This cool graph of Instagrams shows the moment NYC blacked out during Sandy
As the storm gets serious, you can see a dark wedge that continues through time to 10:23 p.m. And at 10:23 there’s a sharp line -- that’s a power outage.
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“Pandora’s Promise” and “Switch” raise the right issues but get nuclear wrong
The two new films promote massive changes in the U.S. energy economy. It's too bad they draw the wrong conclusions on nuclear power.
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Josh Fox’s “Gasland II” to expose power politics of fracking
The sequel of an Oscar-nominated film on the natural gas boom puts the focus on climate change, the oil lobby, and the U.S. government.
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Volcanic rock may be used as giant wind-energy battery
Surplus power from wind turbines could be stored in underground porous rocks produced by volcanic eruptions, say scientists in the Northwest.
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Bikeshare rolls into Chi-Town, spreading transportation bliss
A reporter checks out all 68 of Chicago’s new bikeshare stations and walks away tired, chafed, but impressed.