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Costa Rica to ban sport hunting
Lawmakers in Costa Rica overwhelmingly voted to prohibit recreational hunting, hoping to sustain its wildlife tourism industry.
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Introducing England’s first building made of garbage
Architect Duncan Baker-Brown believes there's no such thing as waste, but he's somehow still making a building out of it.
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The first debate: A win for Romney, a nothingburger for climate and clean energy
The challenger puts himself back in the game, but the president's restraint may play better than pundits think. David Roberts sorts through the rubble.
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Cap-and-spade: Will California’s carbon market dollars go to organic farms?
As California enters the world of cap-and-trade, sustainable farms are in line to receive dollars that will come straight from oil and gas companies.
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We think this kid who licked an entire subway rail should donate himself to science
This is one of the grosser ways you could interact with public transportation. But on the plus side, it could be of use to modern medicine!
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How we can slow global warming by smashing up an asteroid
Do not worry about global warming. Seriously. We are going to explode asteroids, and then, we're going to hide behind them, and it's going to be GREAT.
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Black spidery thingies on Mars will probably kill us all
Every once in awhile, a bit of science crosses your path, and you think, yes, this is how we're all going to die.
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This winter’s snowstorms will have names like Draco, Q, and Khan
The Weather Channel wants to name winter storms things like "Gandolf." That's Gandolf with an O, got it? It has NOTHING TO DO with Tolkein.
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A ‘radical homemaker’ shares her secret to greener, more affordable meat eating
With her new book "Long Way on a Little," the author of "Radical Homemakers" talks about how to use the bones, fat, and extra parts of grass-fed animals to make them last.
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Watch an octopus take apart a camera while punching a shark
To researchers, this baited camera is equipment for monitoring underwater ecosystems. To an octopus, it's just a complicated lunchbox.
