Environmental Graffiti

Boris Urmatov was a little disturbed to see a 10-foot long chunk of metal come crashing down next to his outhouse, to the Russian shepherd did what I expect any American would have done–filed a lawsuit.

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Boris is seeking 1 Million Rubles from Roskosmos, the Russian space agency, because he believes the chunk was from a failed launch over his home is Khazakstan (make your Borat jokes now).

‘Here in Buñol we have never liked bulls. A bull’s horns can hurt you, but a tomato never does you any harm,”- anonymous

Image by Aaron Corey

Every summer the Spanish town of Buñol witnesses lumpy red carnage in the format of a massive drunken food fight, where approximately one hundred metric tons of over-ripe tomatoes are

When an Australian cattle rancher found a large ball of metal and carbon fiber last year, he didn’t think much of it, waiting until now to attempt to find out where exactly this wreckage came from.

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It might be, he thinks, a fuel cell from a rocket, and the Powerhouse Museum agrees– they say it’s not uncommon to find space junk in remote Australia.

I think it goes without saying that nobody on the internet knows who you really are, so let me give you a little background on myself:

Image from mai la canaille on Flickr, at the Hanoi Theatre

My family has been in landscaping for five generations now, and I’ve been doing it for ten. I’m 22. You do the math. Given all of that, I kind of had to make my own fun with it– and so here’s five plants you probably own that can totally kill you.

It’s possible this is the freakiest medical breakthrough I’ve ever seen; scientists are trying to figure out how to make prosthetic limbs out of squid beaks.

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Scientists have apparently been mystified for some time at just how an animal with no

Southern California Edison, the main utility company for an area including San Diego and Los Angeles, announced Thursday that they plan to spend $875 Million to power over 162,000 homes.

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At least when the rest of us have succumbed to the resource wars, Ron Burgundy and Brad Pitt will still have

Two Bulgarian teenagers were rescued from a circus in Italy after one of them was forced to swim in a tank full of piranhas for public amusement this week.

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Personally, I can’t think of many things I’d rather see than a 19-year-old with the potential to be picked to the bone by fish, but

After having the joy of riding out the tornadoes in Atlanta earlier this month, I started thinking about how rare it must be for mother nature’s wrath to be taken out on urban areas.

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Normally when this sort of thing happens, it’s in the suburbs, or out in a rural area. So, for today, five random times the cities didn’t duck the

In New York state, far from the bright lights of the city, alfalfa snout beetles in numbers so large their preadators can’t possibly consume them all emerge from the ground annually and set to work destroying the state’s cropland– 14% of it since 1933.

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After 20 years of trying, however, Cornell University scientists have discovered two nematodes, microscopic worms, that will eat the beetles and

Japan’s space agency earmarked the equivalent of $900,000 U.S. Dollars this week to fund an experiment that would focus on flying paper airplanes in space for the next three years. I am not making this up.

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The project, which is attempting to learn more about flight characteristics in support of building spacecraft in the future, has already proven some of its early ambition