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Saudi Prince building solar powered city with robots, glowing sand and an artificial moon

Will NEOM be "an aspirational society that heralds the future of human civilization" or "a totalitarian surveillance state"?




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Thousands Ask Univ. of Michigan Stadium to Go Solar

From the Redskins' huge solar installation to a solar-powered NASCAR track that mows its grass with sheep, major sporting venues can be an ideal location for solar power. From large expanses of rooftops and parking lots to their high energy needs to




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Faults Leading to 2010 Michigan Tar Sands Spill Known to Pipeline Operator For 5 Years

Plus, NTSB Investigators said a "culture of deviance" delayed Enbridge's response once the 2010 was first detected.




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Hard Brexit: Northern Ireland may need thousands of generator barges to keep the lights on

It turns out leaving the EU is quite hard. Who knew?




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A Thousand Words Are Worth...Ingredients in a Pizza Pocket

We usually start with "A Picture is Worth", but in this case the thousand words are much more powerful. Boingboing quotes designer Justin Perricone: "This is a poster I designed using all of the ingredients in a Ham & Cheese Hot Pocket. First in a




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9 Records Blown Away by Superstorm Sandy

She may not have caused the most property damage, but the superstorm extraordinaire holds some impressive records.




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Alberta Tar Sands Go All High Tech and Futurist

There is too much oil in the ground there just to leave it, so what about the carbon dioxide and the natural gas consumption. We will just throw some high tech at it; problem solved.




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Water Treatment System Uses Salt and Electricity to Provide Clean Drinking Water to Thousands

Providing clean water in areas with minimal local resources may be as simple as implementing this ingenious DIY water treatment system.




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How Old Hotel Soap Can Save Thousands of Lives

I'll admit it, I'm a sucker for those little hotel soaps and shampoos and lotions. I rarely go home from a hotel stay without a handful of them stuffed in my bag. But they are




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Hundreds Of Thousands Of Americans Have No Car, No Access To Transit

Here is an interesting juxtaposition of stories; Kaid Benfield at NRDC Switchboard picks up on a study about how dangerous it is to be a pedestrian in America. He quotes Transportation for America: In the last decade, from 2000 through 2009, more than




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Mideast Nations to Work Together to Fight Sandstorms

Though conflicts over sparse water supplies have created rifts between Turkey and its neighbors, the sandstorms they exacerbate have brought countries in the region




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Reward fund for information on Jairo Mora Sandoval's murder now $56,000

Thank you to all the generous donors!




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DIY wood mold for BioSand water filter system is a low-tech clean water solution

This water filtration solution requires no electricity, has no moving parts, and can be built affordably with locally available materials.




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Tar Sands Spill in Alberta: "This Is Not Natural -- It's Got Nothing to Do With Nature"

Government officials have no idea how to clean up these spills from a process that oil companies claim is more "environmentally friendly."




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TransCanada to pipe tar sands crude to Eastern Canada. What does this mean for Keystone XL?

TransCanada announced today that they are moving forward with their so-called Energy East Pipeline project, which will bring crude oil from Western Canada to refineries and export terminals in Eastern Canada.




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Soon they will be shipping oil from the Alberta oil sands in little plastic tubs

Canadian National Railways figures out a crazy new way to mix oil and plastic – to what end?




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Hot Sand and Skill Turns Plastic Bottles into Jewelry at Sahrawi Refugee Camp (Photos)

This technique transforms used plastic bottles into beautiful jewelry by burying them into hot desert sand -- and the project creates a sustainable business for Saharawi refugees.




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Parking Lots Kill Birds? Thousands Die in Utah Crash Landing

In Utah, birds plunge to their death after storms make parking lots look like ponds. Thwack. Another reason for less pavement?




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Life's not a beach, especially when the sand all goes to concrete

Sand mining is described as "the global environmental crisis you’ve probably never heard of." Another good reason to use wood instead of concrete.




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Have we reached Peak Sand?

Yet another thing we are running out of.




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Concrete house is designed to survive another Superstorm Sandy

Architect Jorge Fortan cements his case for a concrete and foam sandwich house.




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We have passed Peak Sand; people will soon be fighting over the stuff

They keep piling it on Florida's beaches, but they can't keep it up.




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Enbridge tar sands pipeline threatens Great Lakes

After two years of pressing pipeline regulators to release inspection photos and videos of the 60-year-old Enbridge pipeline that carries tar sands oil through the Straits of Mackinac, NWF took it upon themselves to inspect the pipeline.




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Looking back at Superstorm Sandy

TreeHugger Emeritus Mat McDermott describes his experience of living through Sandy.




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Energy from subway tunnels could heat and cool thousands of homes

Another good reason to pile density onto subway lines: Almost free heat and cooling.




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Do you know any anti-oil sands treehugger types? Let the Alberta snitch line know!

Even Amnesty International is weighing in about the way the Alberta government is going after environmentalists.




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Chiquita Bananas Joins Other Major Brands, Pledges to Avoid Oil from Tar Sands

Chiquita Bananas becomes the latest major brand to avoid tar sands fuel. But will it really help?




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Thousands of children in Malawi are learning how to grow food at school

The Malawi Schools Permaculture Clubs, a recipient of the 2018 Lush Spring Prize, provides basic gardening kits and lesson packs to teachers in order to teach valuable agricultural skills.




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Was Keystone XL a huge mistake? Weighing the strategic importance of the tar sands pipeline fight

Was focusing on Keystone XL a mistake? Recent debates on that issue within the environmentalist community have caused some controversy. Here's a look at what people are saying.




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Thousand Fell sneakers can be disassembled at end of life

The components can be recycled, upcycled, or composted – but never landfilled.




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Scientists just discovered organisms that have been alive for thousands of years

This organism has been alive for thousands of years




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How do you build 600 thousand square feet of hospital in seven days?

It takes a lot of preparation, prefabrication and people. The Chinese have all of this.




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Amway Rallies Thousands to Raise Awareness of Malnutrition and Break GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ Record Title - GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™: Largest collage of cutout handprints

The Nutrilite™ Power of 5 Campaign engaged over 260,000 people worldwide to “raise their hand” to fight childhood malnutrition and accomplished a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title for Largest collage of cutout handprints.




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Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders and Ed Markey want to give Americans $2,000 a month during coronavirus crisis

The coronavirus relief bill from Harris, Sanders and Markey would give direct payments to people making up to $120,000, with $2,000 per child.




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Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg: Preventing burnout 'needs to be a priority'

A new survey suggests that women are experiencing physical symptoms of severe anxiety and burnout at up to twice the rate of men amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Here's what Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and Rachel Thomas, co-founder and CEO of LeanIn.Org, suggest companies do to provide support.




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Online education company Coursera offers unemployed workers thousands of free courses

Unemployed workers are gaining free access to 3,800 courses created by elite universities and companies such as Amazon to learn skills and gain professional certificates for new job opportunities.




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How Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg donations measure up

CNBC's "Power Lunch" team discusses the Democrats racing for donations with CNBC.com political finance reporter Brian Schwartz and Robert Frank.




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Coronavirus border closures strand tens of thousands of people across Africa

Migrants trapped in dangerous conditions at frontiers, ports and transit camps

Tens of thousands of migrants are trapped in dangerous conditions at frontiers, mines, ports and in transit camps across Africa after states shut their borders in an attempt to stem the spread of Covid-19.

Some have been abandoned by smugglers unable to take them further on their journeys to Europe or elsewhere. Others were returning home or moving across the continent in search of work when frontiers were closed in March.

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Hundreds of thousands flee violence in eastern DR Congo

More than 200,000 people, mostly women and children, have fled surging violence in Ituri since March in the Democratic Republic of Congo's volatile east, the UN said Friday.








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Atlas Hotel Golden Sands - Майские праздники в Болгарии

Отель расположен на возвышенности Источник: 100 Дорог




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Julian Sands: ‘My worst job? Father Christmas at a department store’

The actor on Derek Jarman, his wife’s right eye and the birthday party he wasn’t invited to

Born in Yorkshire, Sands, 62, studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. He had a role in Derek Jarman’s Broken English and went on to appear in The Killing Fields, A Room With A View and Arachnophobia. His latest films are Yeh Ballet, available on Netflix, and The Painted Bird, out later this year. He is married, has three children, and lives in Los Angeles.

When are you happiest?
Close to a mountain summit on a glorious cold morning.

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Thousands turn out for VE Day parade in Belarus despite Covid-19 concerns

Country’s leader Alexander Lukashenko boasts of holding only parade in former Soviet Union

Thousands of people, including elderly veterans of the second world war, turned out for Belarus’s Victory Day military parade despite the coronavirus pandemic.

Images from the parade showed crowds packed on to parade bleachers as the country’s leader, Alexander Lukashenko, boasted of holding the only parade in the former Soviet Union to mark the defeat of Nazi Germany.

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Coronavirus live news: thousands turn out for Belarus VE Day parade, as Russia infections near 200,000

Belarus leader holds parade prompting safety concerns as other nations curb WW2 events; Russia records 10,000 new Covid-19 cases; Spain’s daily death toll continues to fall. Follow the latest updates

A child was among sixteen migrants rescued four miles off the coast of France when their makeshift vessel bound for Britain ran into difficulties in the middle of the night, authorities said.

The group was picked up 3.8 miles off the French port of Calais after calling for help, French maritime authorities confirmed to AFP. A French maritime surveillance vessel rescued the migrants at around 5am and transported them to the Channel port of Dunkirk, where they were handed over to border police.

Vladimir Putin has told Russians they are invincible when they stand together, as he sought to send a message of unity after the country’s tally of Covid-19 cases reached the fifth highest in the world.

Addressing the nation in a speech as he presided over Victory Day celebrations, a sombre Putin invoked the memory of the country’s veterans who fought in the second world war.

We are united by our shared memory, hopes and aspirations, as well as a sense of shared responsibility for the present and the future. We know and strongly believe that when we stand together, we are invincible.”

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Photos That Say More Than Just a Thousand Words

Ready for your weekly dose of amazing animal photos?

These are sure worth your time.

Here's a link to our previous list, in case you missed it.




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Smiles on the sand at the Beach Soccer Festival




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Italy and Portugal eye glory on the sand

Italy and Portugal eye glory on the sand