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Feb 18, 2014, 6:18 pm By andrewseve
If a multibillion-dollar company started a frack pit fire in your backyard that burned…Here’s a new, cute way to eat animals without guilt or cruelty
Feb 18, 2014, 4:58 pm By hrichmond
Omurice is a rice-filled omelette topped with sauce, often ketchup. Sounds pretty simple until you…Cows make more milk when listening to R.E.M.
Feb 18, 2014, 4:28 pm By hrichmond
Stressed cows produce less milk. The solution? R.E.M.’s hit “Everybody Hurts,” at least…America could have been a nation of hippopotamus eaters
Feb 18, 2014, 2:13 pm By slaskow
The journalist Jon Mooallem has an exceptional talent for writing about strange animal stories, and…Russia could build a train that would connect New York to Paris
Feb 18, 2014, 1:30 pm By slaskow
Amazing Maps posted this, uh, amazing map of a cross-Bering rail connection: Proposed Russia to…Finnish reindeer now have glowing antlers to protect them from cars
Feb 18, 2014, 12:20 pm By slaskow
Like deer in the American Northeast, reindeer in Finland are prone to walking into the road and…Rents in this North Dakota oil town are now higher than in NYC or San Francisco
Feb 18, 2014, 11:42 am By John Upton
Andrew FilerBored in Williston? Just go shopping! We’re sure that Williston, N.D., used to be a…This little green laser could save bicyclists’ lives
Feb 18, 2014, 10:24 am By hrichmond
It’s a little counterintuitive, but turning isn’t as dangerous for cyclists as going straight.…Pharrell is making jeans out of recycled ocean plastic
Feb 18, 2014, 9:46 am By hrichmond
Here’s some news to make you happy: Pharrell Williams not only makes catchy, sunny jams, but…Top 10 urban highways that deserve to be torn down
Feb 18, 2014, 9:28 am By benadler
Payton ChungRoute 5/Skyway blights the waterfront in Buffalo, N.Y. Urbanist policies are often…Tough act to follow: 50-year-old civil rights law still the environmental justice standard
Feb 18, 2014, 7:03 am By ghanscom
Since 1928, the Hampton Avenue Truss Bridge in Greenville, S.C., helped connect the predominantly…In Michigan, protest with a purr brings out the law’s claws
Feb 18, 2014, 4:07 am By Heather Smith
The women known as the Enbridge Three are in jail, which itself is unusual. Most people in their…John Kerry says climate change is a weapon of mass destruction
Feb 17, 2014, 3:47 pm By John Upton
During his time as president, George W. Bush’s foreign policy was driven largely by fear of…Obama wants to spend $1 billion on climate adaptation
Feb 17, 2014, 2:57 pm By John Upton
White HouseTwo farmers show their very parched farm to President Obama and California Gov. Jerry…Green sleaze: The EPA helps corporations scrub their images while screwing the planet
Feb 17, 2014, 9:05 am By audenschendler
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is so progressive on climate change that it is currently…Ask Umbra: How do I clean my too-green roof?
Feb 17, 2014, 7:06 am By ghanscom
Q. There is lots of moss growing on our concrete tile roof. Do you have any advice on getting rid of…New study: Internet trolls are often Machiavellian sadists
Feb 16, 2014, 8:58 am By darbyminow
Editor’s note: Spending our time as we do up to our necks in climate muckrakery, we know a thing…You don’t have to live on a coast to get flooded out by climate change
Feb 15, 2014, 3:54 pm By John Upton
Sub-Saharan? More like tragically submarinin’. The landlocked country of Zimbabwe has been ravaged…Russian enviro who criticized Olympics sentenced to three years of forced labor
Feb 14, 2014, 7:50 pm By John Upton
Oleg Kozirev / Human Rights WatchYevgeny Vitishko, in happier days. An activist who coauthored a…Watch a guy rescue stranded deer with a hovercraft
Feb 14, 2014, 4:58 pm By jesszimmerman
Sometimes, in the winter, deer get stuck out in the middle of icy lakes. Once they slip, they can…
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