In: World News
UK opens its first ‘pay-as-you-feel’ food waste grocery store
10/01/2016Globally, more than 1.3 billion metric tons of food is wasted or spoiled each year…
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Solar on the steppe: Ukraine embraces renewables revolution
09/29/2016“Energy independence has become a matter of national security for Ukraine.”
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Why the ‘Break Free From Plastic’ movement is a really big deal
09/29/2016“We believe in a world where the land, sky, oceans, and water is home to an abundance of life, not an abundance of plastic…
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Dutch parliament votes to shut down all of the country’s coal plants
09/27/2016The Dutch parliament voted Thursday night to shutter the nation’s coal industry in order to achieve a 55-percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions by 2030.
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Report: Apple is a sexist, toxic work environment
09/24/2016She also told Mic that a number of employees quit, citing a “white, male, Christian, misogynist, sexist environment”
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Sugar industry secretly paid for favorable Harvard research
09/22/2016The federal government is getting on board with researchers like Kearns who have been warning of the perils of sugar…
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Most Humpback Whales Taken Off Endangered Species List
09/21/2016“We believe that we have conducted a very thorough scientific assessment,”
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Danish Council on Ethics releases its report on beef as a ‘climate damaging food’
09/21/2016The report is lengthy and interesting, particularly when it delves into the philosophical intricacies behind eating animals
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What Do the Presidential Candidates Know about Science?
09/19/2016The candidates of the two major parties— Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump—provided answers to 20 questions about the most important science-based issues the U.S.
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