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Start o' the week links: Costa Rica, spiders and a drying world

Soil is drying up all over the world, Google is dropping big bucks building a wind power transmission line, and a spider and centipede battle it out.



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Electronics companies get recycling grades

Dell makes recycling its old laptops fairly easy, but most companies make it tough for customers to return no-longer-usable electronics for safe disposal.




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Holiday shopping guide for greener electronics

Center for Environmental Health's new guide attempts to consolidate electronic buying guides from many nonprofits.




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Electronics recycling

The future of electronics recycling may be in donating used items. With the proliferation of household as well as personal consumer electronics, there’s a ser




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Yahoo Livestand to bring the magazine rack to tablet computers

Meanwhile, rumors of a pending iPad 3 spread around the Web, but are they to be believed?




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Physics-defying LEDs light the way to a brighter cleantech future

A light-emitting diode (LED) developed at MIT operates at 230-percent efficiency. That's not a typo. LEDs will provide 70 percent of the world's general lightin



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World's first flexible lithium ion battery engineered

A scientific team from South Korea has just created the first bendable lithium ion battery.



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Take a foodstagram and help feed the hungry

FoodShareFilter aims to sell its Instagram filter specially made for food pics and donate the money to an El Salvadorian charity.



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8 ways the 'Internet of Things' will change the way we work

From data storage to time-saving, a seamless network of everyday objects in the workplace would make offices more efficient and productive in a variety of ways.




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Solving the e-waste problem: Trash bans aren't the answer

Incentives for recycling old or unwanted electronics may be the best solution.




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What is the Internet of Things?

There's no turning back now: We're on the brink of a new tech revolution, but what will it mean for our daily lives?



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Farming: There's an app for that

The latest agricultural apps are helping farmers boost productivity and profits.



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Charge it: IKEA builds inductive charging into furniture

Wireless inductive charging built into furniture is a good idea whose time has not yet come.



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People in this Canadian city are seeing lynx everywhere

Experts aren't sure why so many Canadian lynx are turning up in Thunder Bay.




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Why insuring a coral reef is a good idea

Almost 40 miles of coral reef and beach around Cancun and Puerto Morelos are now insured against storms.



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Africa is splitting in two

In tens of millions of years, Africa will lose a sizable chunk of its eastern coast.



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9 things you don't know about John Muir

Famed naturalist and conservationist John Muir was so much more than the father of our national parks.



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Startlingly big sinkhole opens in New Zealand

A giant sinkhole, the length of two football fields and six stories deep, opened up in a New Zealand farm in Rotorua.



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UNESCO selects 19 new breathtaking World Heritage Sites

UNESCO's World Heritage Committee has added 19 new locations to its list of World Heritage Sites and expanded the boundaries of another one.



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The 14 most amazing waterfalls in the world

Few natural wonders encapsulate the sublimity, power and impermanence of the wild better than roaring waterfalls.



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In Florida's Everglades, prescribed burning helps head off larger wildfires

Carefully managed fire is used as a tool to protect wildlands from invasive plants and other threats.



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5 things that probably aren't killing honeybees – and 1 thing that definitely is

Scientists scramble to understand the causes of colony collapse disorder.




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How to protect the world's largest living thing

Pando, the world's largest-known organism, is dying. But there might still be time to save this wonder of nature.



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Could this giant 2,500-year-old fungus hold the cure to cancer?

An Armillaria gallica mushroom found in Michigan's Upper Peninsula is growing fast, and the secret to its phenomenal growth might hold the cure to cancer.



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Supermarket's rejected 'Rang-tan' holiday ad becomes viral sensation

The ad, meant to highlight the environmental costs of palm oil, has touched the hearts of millions.




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This is why we need wildlife crossings

Wildlife underpasses and overpasses have reduced animal-related car crashes in Colorado.




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20 tips for camping in the depths of winter

With the right equipment and preparation, it can be worth the hard work of venturing into the wilderness in winter.




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This stray tagged along with mountain climbers and set an elevation record for dogs

A street dog named Mera tagged along with a expedition and climbed 23,389-foot Baruntse, a mountain in Nepal.




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It's time to start demanding justification for drilling in the Arctic refuge​​

Alaska professor discusses why the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge should not be opened for oil drilling.



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Say hello to the first female chief ranger in this national park's 85-year history

Lisa Hendy is the first woman to become chief ranger at Great Smoky Mountains National Park.



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In the U.K, less mowing means more flowers

New guidelines limiting mowing along roadside strips help create wildlife corridors in the UK.



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Hitting the green sheets

Looking to avoid a date with pesticides this Valentine's Day? Outfit your boudoir with bedding made from eco-friendly fabrics.



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A huge, organic gingerbread house

The Ritz-Carlton in Charlotte uses organic ingredients, LED lights and a green vegetated moss roof on it’s holiday house.




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Getting to the roots of organic hair dye

Find out if organic hair dye stacks up with our fashion and beauty correspondent, Jolene Eyre.



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Hitting the green sheets: '10 edition

Looking to avoid a date with pesticides this Valentine's Day? Outfit your boudoir with stylish sheets made from organic cotton.



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Review: Organic Cotton Bedding by Gaiam

The Organic Cotton Percale Bedding from Gaiam takes a few washes to soften up, but then settles into being a wonderfully comfortable set of sheets.



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A good, green cutting board

Bambu's green cutting boards encourage reducing and reusing -- because they're pretty enough to double as serving boards too.




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'Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy is Undermining the Environmental Revolution'

Journalist Heather Rogers maintains that we can't buy our way out of the crisis our planet is experiencing.




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Green Mountain Coffee addresses single-use servings

Longtime eco-friendly coffee makers attempt a green solution to the waste of single servings.




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Hitting the green sheets: '11 edition

Looking to avoid a date with pesticides this Valentine's Day? Outfit your boudoir with stylish sheets made from organic cotton.




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Organic companies against labeling GMOs?

With so many organic companies owned by large corporations, some of their profits may be used to fight Proposition 37 – which would require genetically modifi




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Art in the Age's Sage libation inspired by a founding father

An organic “garden gin,” Sage uses botanicals like the ones grown by Thomas Jefferson in his Monticello gardens.




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Hitting the green sheets: '13 edition

Want to avoid getting intimate with pesticides this Valentine's Day? Outfit your love den with stylish sheet sets made from organic cotton.




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Environmental Working Group's updated cleaning guide

EWG grades the products many of us use to clean our kitchens and houses. How do your 'green' cleaning products rate?



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Grocery survey results show interest in organics still growing

Check out this infographic, which breaks down the importance of organic food, how mobile usage affects purchasing, food labels and more.




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Introducing healthy potato chips

The biggest problem with potato chips is the oil they are fried in, but this company uses quality coconut oil!




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Kombucha soda: A fizzy drink without anything extra

Delightfully fizzy and well-flavored, these kombucha sodas are a healthy choice.




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Coupon clipping: Natural and organic printable coupons for May 2014

Free printable coupons plus recipe ideas to use them to make cooking at home a little easier.




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Which exercise is best at boosting brain power?

Researchers put running, weightlifting and interval training to the test to see which one was best for the brain.



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What is kratom and is it dangerous?

The FDA says kratom acts like an opioid and warns against using the popular supplement.



  • Fitness & Well-Being