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Skip the Shark Week mockumentaries and watch real sharks on these live cams instead
Since the Discovery Channel is just making stuff up, we've put together a list of the best real-life shark cams. Call it The People's Shark Week.
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Ants will save the world! Wait, ants?
Ants might be able to speed up carbon dioxide absorption in rocks. Is this a viable way to fight global warming?
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Rather than killing sharks, this town moves them away from human-infested waters
Recife, Brazil, has taken a shockingly non-hysterical approach to reducing shark attacks. Fly fishers everywhere call it catch-and-release.
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Weed could be resistant to GMO labeling in Colorado
Colorado is gearing up for a ballot fight on labeling genetically engineered food products. It looks like the initiative doesn't give cannabis a pass.
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Australia responds to shark attacks by … attacking sharks first
Reacting to an uptick in fatal great white shark attacks, the country’s Conservative Party has decided to kill any shark that comes anywhere near the beach.
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Public art, environment, history, and the locals all collide in the Anacostia River
Artist Mia Feuer wanted to submerge a gas station in the river, but locals fought back. We unpack all the reasons why.
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Shark Week without sharks is just Week
We kill 100 million sharks a year -- many of them just for their fins. If we keep this up, Shark Week is going to be just a whole lotta blue.
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Sort of like the love train, but with a rapping polar bear
From Emeryville, Calif., to the Big Apple, by rail, for the big September climate rally. It only takes three days. But there are workshops!
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“I Heart NY” mastermind launches catchy climate change logo
To help make climate change awareness stick (and slick), design legend Milton Glaser created a catchy logo.
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Canadian protesters set up camp — politely — along Line 9 pipeline
It's the latest effort in the long-running fight to stop Enbridge from repurposing an old pipeline by reversing its flow.
