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Fabled British historic site to get semi-fearsome new footbridge

Which shortlisted bridge proposal for Tintagel Castle would King Arthur himself choose?




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London's most beautiful new museum is a 150-year-old sewage pumping station

Likened to a cathedral, the ornate Crossness Pumping Station reopens for public tours following extensive rehabbing.



  • Arts & Culture

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New copyright rules bring busy replica furniture industry in the U.K. to a halt

The era of ersatz Eames chairs and knockoff Noguchi coffee tables comes to an end.



  • Remodeling & Design

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English city combats climate change with 3 million new trees

Manchester's City of Trees scheme will plant one leafy specimen for every resident.



  • Climate & Weather

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Young hosta shoots are edible. Who knew?

The early shoots of hosta plants are tender and delicious.




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New Zealand's '8th Wonder of the World' rediscovered

Lost to a violent volcanic eruption in 1886, the remains of the Pink and White Terraces may have been located again.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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8 new UNESCO geoparks that will take your breath away

Geoparks use an area's geological heritage to draw attention to key environmental issues.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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10 recipes for Brussels sprouts that will make them your new favorite vegetable

Brussels sprouts are a superfood packed with vitamins, cancer-fighting nutrients, and many health benefits.




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Medicinal mushrooms are the new turmeric

Mushrooms are the latest functional food shown to have science-backed health benefits beyond nutrients. Here are 5 to add to your must-eat list.




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Fizzy yoga: What is this new exercise trend, and would you try it?

Actress Kim Cattrall claims this new yoga hybrid practice saved her life.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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Fox News: Keystone XL will create 2,000, 85,000, one million jobs

According to the GOP's favorite media mouthpiece, the Keystone XL pipeline would have created thousands, no- tens of thousands, no- hundreds of thousands, wait-




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A child sees through the emperor's new pipeline

David Lillard writes about how his son's questions about the Keystone XL Pipeline led him to learn something new.




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Impact of Keystone XL pipeline examined in new e-book

Washington Post energy correspondent Steven Mufson traveled the 1,700-mile path of the controversial tar sands pipeline.




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InsideClimate News wins Pulitzer Prize for oil spill reporting

Reporters for the online, nonprofit news site spent seven months reporting on tar-sands oil spill in Michigan.



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New wind turbine going on sale next month

Select Ace Hardware stores will begin selling the new Honeywell WT6500 home wind turbine next month.




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Power from New York City's East River?

Dean Corren's vision of a greener world includes using New York City's East River to produce electricity. As technology director at Verdant Power, he's trying t




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The Greenerator: Personal, renewable apartment power

Jonathan Globerson's Greenerator concept allows apartment dwellers to harvest their own wind and solar energy from the comfort of their own balconies. But would




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The week in review for Big Renewables

A striking infographic demonstrates the latent power of Big Solar in the United States. A powerful image from the Irish Sea illustrates the staggering scale of




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How a computer algorithm gave Hamburg's new concert hall its incredible sound

The Elbphilharmonie features over 1 million computer-generated divots to shape sound within its main auditorium.



  • Arts & Culture

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Here's your new favorite Christmas song, according to science

'Love's Not Just For Christmas' has all the elements of a great holiday tune — except for Michael Bublé.




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SOTU 2012: Obama touts old, new energy

In his State of the Union speech, Obama unveils plans to expand U.S. oil and gas production, but vows not to 'walk away from the promise of clean energy.'




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Fracking injection process linked to scores of earthquakes, new study finds

Earthquakes triggered by fluids injected deep underground, such as during the controversial practice of fracking, may be more common than previously thought, a



  • Wilderness & Resources

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The ballad of Sean and Yoko: Anti-fracking, for renewables

The new Artists Against Fracking makes a compelling case against opening up New York state to natural gas drilling. It's fuzzier about the energy sources that c




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New Zealand surfer survives tsunami by riding giant wave

A student and his fellow surfers used their skills to ride the giant waves to safety after a deadly tsunami struck Samoa.




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New evidence for ancient Alaskan tsunamis found

This century's deadly tsunamis kicked off an intense search for buried clues to prehistoric killer waves along Alaska's southern shores.



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Georgia-Pacific unit launches new sustainability campaign

Georgia-Pacific Wood Products, which recently received SFI chain-of-custody certification, has launched a new sustainability campaign.




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Forest and paper industry group announces new sustainability goals

The American Forest & Paper Association announced today an ambitious set of sustainability goals for its member organizations to aim for by 2020.



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5 things to know about Pluto's new moon

Scientists announced the discovery of a new moon around Pluto on July 11, bringing the dwarf planet's number of known satellites to five.




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Pluto's moons pose risk for NASA's New Horizons craft

The moons of Pluto, and a potential set of rings, may create dangerous debris zones for a NASA spacecraft currently speeding toward the distant world, researche




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Pluto moons get new names

It's official! Two tiny moons orbiting the dwarf planet Pluto finally have new names: Styx and Kerberos.




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New Horizon spacecraft zooms beyond Neptune's orbit

A speedy NASA probe has crossed the orbit of Neptune, notching one more spaceflight milestone on its way toward a historic flyby of Pluto.




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New Horizons probe begins survey ahead of Pluto flyby

A NASA spacecraft's epic Pluto encounter is officially underway.




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New Horizons probe snaps fresh view of Pluto

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has snapped new images of Pluto — the first taken by the probe during its six-month approach to the dwarf planet.




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New Horizons' photos of Pluto show possible ice cap

A Pluto-bound NASA probe has captured the best-ever images of the dwarf planet.




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New Horizons probe spies Pluto's 'heart'

Pluto looks especially welcoming in a new photo by NASA's approaching New Horizons probe.




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New Horizons phoned home after Pluto flyby

​The first-ever flyby of Pluto was a big success.




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New Pluto photos reveal a myriad of mysteries

Scientists are stunned at the incredible new images of the surface of Pluto, its largest moon Charon and its farthest-flung moon Hydra.




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New Horizons gets eyeful of Pluto's icy mountains

A new photo from New Horizons shows Pluto's towering ice mountains cast and frozen nitrogen glaciers.




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Blu Homes taps into mod outbuilding market with new acquisition

In conjunction with Greenbuild 2012, prefab firm Blu Homes announces the acquisition of Modern Cabana, a family-run company specializing in stylish accessory dw



  • Remodeling & Design

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Self-build, surprise-free starter homes offered to newbie Dutch homeowners

The oldest city in the Netherlands attracts first-time homeowners with flat-pack prefab abodes free of hidden costs or complications.



  • Remodeling & Design

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With new model home, Breezehouse gets SoCal treatment

Blu Homes arrives on the L.A. market with a Breezehouse model home boasting SoCal specific features including bigger walk-in closets and more windows.



  • Remodeling & Design

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'Prefabulous World': New book highlights cream of the crop in prefab homes

The gorgeously illustrated "Prefabulous World" highlights some of the most cutting-edge, eco-friendly modular homes in the world.



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Egg-shaped hideaway gives whole new meaning to 'escape pod'

Powered by the wind and sun, Ecocapsule is the ultimate off-grid micro-home for vagabond vacationers.



  • Remodeling & Design

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New prehistoric monster was a seafaring crocodilian

Ancient marine reptile sheds light on the origins of the distant relatives of modern crocodiles.




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Does the world's 'loneliest' tree mark the start of a new epoch?

A Sitka spruce on Campbell Island may be the 'golden spike' that denotes the controversial beginning of the Anthropocene epoch.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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There's a newly discovered Amazon tribe, but here's why we're not contacting them

Based on our mostly destructive history of interacting with isolated cultures, we should stay away.



  • Arts & Culture

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What was Earth's first animal? New study finally offers an answer

The first animal to evolve on Earth was probably a sponge that existed around 640 million years ago.




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NASA's new mission will spot killer asteroids before they sneak up on us

The space agency's $650 million Neo Surveillance Mission is designed to spot killer asteroids.




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Bette Midler's New York Restoration Project aims to plant one million new trees by 2017

Toyota has donated 4,500 free trees for this March's giveaway for New York City residents.




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New study links childhood asthma to living near traffic

Living near high-traffic roads accounts for 14% of all asthma cases, researchers find.