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Nicaragua may let Chinese company build a canal to rival Panama’s
Nicaragua's president is trying to ram a canal plan through his country's congress in less than two weeks. If successful, it'll create a new link between the Atlantic and Pacific.
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Ask Umbra: Can my bicycle power my toaster?
A reader wants to use his bike for more than getting around the neighborhood. Umbra winds up.
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How fracking companies exploit Amish farmers
Amish tradition frowns on lawsuits. Energy companies are taking advantage of that fact by leasing Amish farmers' land for way less than it's worth.
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Canadian power plant is buying up Detroit’s pile of tar-sands waste, burning it
Detroit's huge pile of petcoke, waste from tar-sands refining, is gradually being shipped back up to Canada and burned to produce dirty electricity.
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Keystone XL isn’t even built yet and already it’s faulty
The southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline is riddled with dents and other anomalies, prompting TransCanada to dig it back up and replace faulty segments.
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California’s San Onofre nuclear plant gets final death blow
Southern California Edison is officially giving up on the perpetually troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant. Anti-nuke activists are psyched.
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The “carbon negative” building block is mostly made from recycled ingredients
Which means that as long as you avoid adding glass, metal, drywall, insulation, or humans, you could have a completely carbon-neutral building!
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France looks at America, says non to fracking
The French energy minister wants to keep her country's fracking ban in place. Just look at what a mess fracking has made in America, she says.
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Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris partied at Sean Parker’s eco-wrecking wedding
A tech billionaire trampled a redwood forest for his fantasy wedding, and two of California's most senior elected officials were at the obnoxious bash.
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Whole Foods opens in Detroit, threatening stereotypes everywhere
The opening of a Whole Foods in inner-city Detroit has caused more fanfare than possibly any grocery-store debut in history. Why all the hoopla?
