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I promise you will enjoy watching this man get attacked by a bear
In fact, it may make YOU want to get attacked by a bear.
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Four Charts Provide Distributed Solar Lessons from California
A new study for the California Public Utilities Commission explores the “Technical Potential for Local Distributed Photovoltaics in California.” Basically, it’s one of the more in-depth analyses of local solar […]
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What runners can teach us about sustainability
Today in the U.S., we have a “sprint culture” -- an addiction to speed and quick rewards. We need to slow down and begin to find a rhythm for a long-distance run.
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Photos: See ya later, lovely glaciers
A new book by photographer James Balog captures in vivid color just what’s at stake as climate change erodes ice in some of the world’s most extreme places.
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Friday music blogging: The Avett Brothers, yet again
There’s no band I have gushed over more than The Avett Brothers. I even wrote a cover story about them for another magazine, which you can check out here. So, […]
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Guam is entirely infested with spiders, and it’s all the fault of invasive snakes
The island of Guam has up to 40 times the normal number of spiders — on average, about one spiderweb every two feet during the rainy season. And if that’s […]
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Heat and Drought Ravage U.S. Crop Prospects—Global Stocks Suffer
By Janet Larsen September estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) show 2012 U.S. corn yields at 123 bushels per acre, down by a fourth from the 2009 high […]
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Scientists are using new technology to identify zombie bees
Some of the scientists investigating the mysterious honeybee die-offs suspect zombie bees, bees that are being mind-controlled by parasitic scuttle fly maggots. Unlike human zombies, bee zombies (or, inevitably, “zombees”) […]
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Artist slices delicate, beautiful nature scenes out of leaves
Lorenzo Durán's cut-away leaf art is both mindblowing and a thoughtful meditation on ecology.
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An open letter to people who don’t like cheeseburgers, by a cheeseburger
Cheeseburgers have a lot of feelings, and those feelings are LIES.
