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Professional Mermaid Dances With Sharks, Says Humans Are ‘The Real Dangerous Predators’
06/16/2014Hannah Fraser is a professional mermaid and an ocean conservation activist who makes compelling videos combining these interests.
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E-Waste Recycling: Families Living on Electronic ‘Trash’ in China
06/16/2014China has become the e-waste dumping ground of the world.
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Future Fossils: Plastic Stone
06/13/2014The substance, called plastiglomerate, is a fusion of natural and manufactured materials.
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Wind-Blown Dust Darkens Greenland, Speeding Meltdown
06/13/2014Dirty ice melts faster, which suggests Greenland’s glaciers may disappear faster that previously expected, hastening sea level rise
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Artist paints immersive classroom murals with mud
06/12/2014Covering all the walls and ceilings, this soil-based artwork presents an immersive visual experience to the students, plus an aesthetics lesson grounded in ecology and the local customs…
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A Push to Save Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake
06/12/2014Now an international team of researchers has joined local fishermen in an ambitious project to save the Tonle Sap
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: Dame Vivienne Westwood Says That “Fashion is a Terrible Thing”
06/11/2014“There are signs in my shops that say ‘buy less, choose well, make it last.’
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Instapaper World’s First Waste-to-Biofuels Plant Opens in Edmonton, Canada
06/11/2014Edmonton, Canada just celebrated the opening of the world’s first waste-to-biofuel facility, which could radically transform the way we deal with our garbage.
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Artists finding inspiration in China’s bad air
06/10/2014“I was not very excited when I did this series. Of course, I was excited about the composition and the elements, but I felt heavy,”
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Turbines Popping Up on New York Roofs, Along With Questions of Efficiency
06/10/2014In an industry, a city and a society obsessed with being green, wind turbines remain scarce
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