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Scientists agree that BPA is an "ovarian toxicant"

Studies of humans, mice, monkeys, and sheep all point to the same scary conclusion -- that BPA wreaks havoc on the female reproductive system.




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More Americans drinking BPA in canned beer

What's in that "polymer lining" in every can? A gender-bending hormone that may be really bad for you.




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EWG has released new report on BPA in canned food

Find out which brands are the best and worst players in the canned food industry right now.




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BPA could be affecting desire to exercise

Study assessed the effect of endocrine disrupting chemicals on mice's desire to exercise and found that it makes them lazier.




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'BPA-free' plastics often uses Bisphenol-S ... which might be just as bad

From one problem to the next...




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Two-thirds of food cans tested contain BPA, and the alternatives may not be much better

A new report shines the light on a dirty little 'secret' of canned goods, which has little to do with the food itself, and everything to do with the coating in the can.




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Who cares about BPA? Canned beer is more popular than ever

Nobody should be drinking canned beer. Period. But it is particularly bad for young women.




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BPA replacements aren't safe either, study finds

Scientists have found that the chemicals used to replace BPA over the past 20 years have the same damaging effects.




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If BPA is so terrible, why is everybody still drinking beer and pop out of BPA lined cans?

There is a fundamental logical inconsistency here. Either the stuff is bad for you or it isn't.




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The surprising impact of paper receipts

A new bill in California would make digital receipts the default; here's why it's a big deal.




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Happy 83rd Birthday, American beer can. Now go away.

There is no place for you in a healthy, circular economy, and this is nothing to celebrate




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Could Bacteria-Filled Balloons Stop the Spread of the Sahara? Architect Magnus Larsson Thinks So

Nearly a year ago a "Great Green Wall" of trees was proposed to run across the entire southern border of the Sahara desert in an attempt to stop expanding desertification. At the TED Global conference in Oxford, England,




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Climate Change Puts the Reality in This TV Show

At first it sounds like any other reality show: "Candidates will be put through a series of tough physical




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Australia's Invading Camels Soon to Be Croc Food

Locals in one region of the Australian Outback have been terrorized of late by a roaming band of feral camels. Drought conditions and a recent heat wave are being blamed for driving some 6,000 camels into residential areas near




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Africa's Great Green Wall Hopes to Stop the Spreading Sahara - If It Ever Gets Planted

It's been a couple of years since the still-planned and so-called Great Green Wall of Africa graced the pages of TreeHugger, so here's a quick update and overview: As the BBC reports, African leaders are meeting in Chad to further push the




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The Global Battle to Conserve and Rebuild Soil

The literature on soil erosion contains countless references to the "loss of protective vegetation." Over the last half-century, clearcutting, overgrazing, and overplowing have removed so much of that protective cover




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Footballs To Be Made from Feral Camel Leather

Australia has a feral camel problem. The Australian Feral Camel Management Project estimates that 1 million of rogue dromedaries roam outback Australia, annually causing over $14 million AUD worth of damage to infrastructure and




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Big Squirreltail Evolves to Fight Off Fiery, Invasive Cheatgrass

Nicknaming plants. Now there's a good job to have. The invasive plant in this tale, called "cheatgrass," is being fought off by a native




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Threatened Tortoises Slow Down Desert Solar Project

The building of the massive 5.6-square mile Ivanpah solar project in the Mojave Desert by BrightSource Energy has been suspended in the midst of




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Arabian 'Unicorn' Back from the Brink in Middle East Thanks to Captive Breeding Program Success

A bright white antelope with long thin horns, the Arabian oryx is thought to have inspired early stories of unicorns. (Its two horns appear as one when viewed from the side.) And until




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eBay's Desert Data Center Gets Into Hot Water

Cooling a data center in one of the hottest parts of the USA can be done by using hot water, as eBay's Phoenix facility finds.




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8 Awesome Airstream Hotels, From the California Desert to the French Pyrenees

A drive-in movie theater in the wilderness and an urban rooftop are just a few of the innovative spots from which stylish trailer hotels are popping up.




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340 Ton Rock Levitates Above the Ground in Los Angeles

It's a 340 ton rock, balancing over a crevice...forever.




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CO2 making the deserts bloom

What is CO2 fertilization effect and how is it changing our planet?




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Growing an oasis in the desert and bananas in Massachusetts

"If we can do it here, we can do it anywhere," says Geoff Lawton. So let's get started.




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How to reverse desertification. With rocks.

Could strategically-placed rock walls help to re-green the desert?




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Aboriginal hunting practice helps kangaroos

Studies show that humans and kangaroos may have co-evolved to be mutually beneficial to one another.




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Clever rainwater garden grows squash and corn in Arizona desert

When you've got a lot of driveway runoff, some careful landscaping can put it to good use.




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Prehistoric shrimp emerge from Australian desert after heavy rain

Imagine millions of these slithering out from the mud? The eggs of this alien desert crustacean remain dormant for years, waiting for a bout of rain to hatch.




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Tree-dwelling gray foxes decorate with skeletons

As the only canids that can climb trees, gray foxes frequently drag fawn and rabbit skeletons onto the branches with them.




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Man selling mint leaves in Morocco (photo)

It took me hours, but I finally found this guy.




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It hadn't rained here in centuries – now it's raining and everything's dying

Recent rains attributed to a changing climate are leading to mass extinction in the Atacama Desert.




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Huge lake appears in North America's hottest, driest spot

Check out these photos of a surprise 10-mile lake that popped up in Death Valley, California.




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Mind the gap: New bridge in Cornwall is actually two giant cantilevers

What does it feel like to be an arch? Very different from how it feels like to be a cantilever.




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The US is drowning in natural gas, yet they keep drilling and fracking

There is so much that they can't burn it here, so they compress it, liquify it, and ship it. That's not working out too well either.




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Can we make steel without CO2 emissions using renewable hydrogen?

Yes, in theory. Doing it in practice is a whole other story. This is another example of how the hydrogen economy is a fantasy.




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Swedish company is building wind turbine towers out of timber

It seems that you can build just about anything out of wood.




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School board apologizes for "Santa Goes Green" concert in oil patch

The play bombed in Oxbow for promoting a green agenda.




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UK pilot project mixes "green" hydrogen with natural gas

So many flavors and colors of gas these days. They are all problematic.




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Why choosing solar panels or a hybrid car has more impact than you think

As it turns out, personal energy choices can be contagious.




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"Gasmaggedon" will make it even harder to electrify everything

It's why we have to reduce demand as well, with radical efficiency.




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Another problem with fracking: Increased sexually transmitted infections?

If a massive water footprint, air pollution, contaminated drinking water, earthquakes, and general environmental degradation weren't bad enough...r




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Cheap natural gas is making it very hard to go green

It's killing everything, including renewable energy.




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Why is Canada fighting over a gas pipeline to nowhere?

The world is awash in LNG that's a lot closer to the ocean and a lot cheaper to move.




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How many people will Trump's fuel efficiency rollback kill?

Thanks to COVID-19, a lot more than previously thought.




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Bald eagles are littering Seattle backyards with landfill trash

Some 200 bald eagles are scavenging the goods at Cedar Hills Regional Landfill and dumping the leftovers in suburban backyards.




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Photo: California towhee is the picture of spring

Our photo of the day comes from Atascadero, California.




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Photo: Wood duck proves Mother Nature's flair for drama

Our photo of the day reveals the wonderful frippery of waterfowl.




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Photo: Black-bellied whistling ducks peer from the pier

Our photo of the day comes from the Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas.




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11-foot-tall bird discovered in Crimea

Discovered in a cave, the surprising find reveals a fast and giant bird that weighed almost as much as a polar bear.