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Green fall cleaning: 10 tools of the trade

With the fall cleaning season — yes, fall cleaning season — just around the corner, consider bolstering your arsenal of cleaning tools and accessories with these 10 eco-friendly options. [...]

Petco managers leave scores of animals to drown in flood waters

A Petco pet store in New York state is feeling the heat this week after abandoning over 100 animals to drown in their cages from the flooding Susquehanna River. [...]

8 easy weekend paint projects

Kass Wilson of Wallstreat Studio, a custom painting company, has some great ideas for sprucing up your place. [...]

Bortle Light Pollution Scale

The Bortle Light Pollution Scale is a good model for understanding how tainted our night skies are by light pollution. [...]

Thar she blows! Sewer geyser wrecks parked car

I bet this guy wishes he had parked on the other side of the street that day. [...]

Greenpeace turns its attention from U.N. climate talks to fossil fuel industry

The 40-year-old environmental group will apply pressure to polluting businesses and the banks that back them. [...]

Jellyfish rival plankton-eating fish as predators, study finds

Scientists theorize that as more fish are removed from the oceans, jellyfish could easily take control of aquatic ecosystems. [...]

Invasive earthworms can ravage forests

Don’t dump that leftover bait! Non-native earthworms are damaging hardwood forests; one Great Lakes group is working to clear up the misconception that they’re always harmless. [...]

Astronomers discover real-life version of Luke Skywalker’s home planet of Tatooine

Since the world and the two stars are on the same plane, scientists theorizes that the celestial bodies formed from the disk of dust and gas. [...]

Bioethetics professors offer reward for proof of Bachmann’s HPV claim

Two university bioethics professors are offering $10K for proof that Michele Bachmann’s ‘HPV victim’ exists. [...]