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- Keystone XL Would Raise Gas Prices, After All
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- 60 Students Suspended for Biking to School?!
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How to Turn Your Backpack Into A Solar Charger
There are solar backpacks on the market to choose from, but what if you could turn a favorite backpack you already own into a solar charging machine? Here's what you need.
Business
Would Paul Watson Really Voluntarily Go to Costa Rica for Trial? And Collaborate on Ocean Conservation?
Has the Costa Rica Foreign Minister really just suggested that the Sea Shepherd founder might voluntarily go to Costa Rica to face trial.
- G8's Camp David Declaration Supports Climate Change Action While Not Acknowledging Its Source
- The Decline and Fall of the Nation's Top Climate-Denying Think Tank
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- California Farmer Who Abandoned 50,000 Chickens Sued by Animal Welfare Groups
- How Deadly Charcoal is Bought and Sold in an African Market
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Design
It's Palletpalooza at New York Design Week and ICFF
Goodbye shipping containers, hello pallets as the design meme of the moment.
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Living
How to Clean Your Mattress
If you've never done this, you need to -- especially if you have pets or allergies. Don't worry: It's easier than you think.
- Chelsea Flower Show's Winning Gardens are Sustainable and Stunning
- Bees Prefer Working Class Gardens Over Affluent Gardens
- Our Meals are 4 Times Larger Than in the 1950s (Infographic)
- Paul Watson's First Talk With Media After Being Released From Jail (Video)
- Weekday Vegetarian: Avocado and Cucumber Salad
- CDC Warns Against 'Fish Pedicures'
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Transportation
60 Students Suspended for Biking to School (?!?)
On the second to last day of school, 60 seniors from Kenowa Hills High School in Walker, Michigan, rode their bikes to school. It wasn't an improvised things either, as they had police escort and did it safely, and even the mayor joined them...
- Ford Begins Shipping First Focus EVs to California, New Jersey and New York
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Technology
Pollution-Hunting Robot Fish Head to Sea for Test Swim
They've gone from the lab to the ocean, and these robotic fish are stretching their fins to see how they do in gathering information on pollution.
- Robot To Wash Solar Panels Among Winning Student Inventions
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- Swap-O-Matic Vending Machine Lets You Trade But Not Buy
- Portable iPhone Speaker Is Made from Recycled Paper
- Roomba-Like Robots Dropped by Helicopter Could Clean Up Oil Spills
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Science
Tiger Poachers Can Now Be Shot on Sight in Indian State of Maharashtra
But it's really the 5 million rupees in payments to informers that are hoped to bring results in slowing tiger deaths.
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- Gay Penguin Pair Adopt an Egg to Raise as Their Own
- SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch Successful, Dragon Capsule one Step Closed to ISS
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- Seagrasses Can Store Twice as Much Carbon as Forests
- Incredible Video of Solar Eclipse Reveals Details of the Sun
- Star Wars on Weeds: Could Lasers Replace Herbicides?
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Energy
Ol' Keystone XL Will Raise Gas Prices After All: New Report
Wasn't this thing supposed to lower gas prices and create like 10 million jobs?
- There's So Much Fracking in Pennsylvania That Indie Bands and World-Famous Hitchhiking Directors Can't Find Hotels
- Fukushima Meltdown Hastens Decline of Nuclear Power
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- Vermont Bans Fracking: We Can Live Without Oil & Natural Gas, But Cannot Without Clean Water
- US Proposes More Tariffs For Chinese Solar Power Modules
- World's First Ethanol Cooking Fuel Plant Opens in Mozambique
- Electricity Transmission Line for 7 GW of Offshore Wind Power Off Mid-Atlantic States Given Go Ahead
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