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Major oil-water spill darkens Alberta, Canada
June 13, 2013In the wetlands of northern Alberta, Canada, outside the town of Zama City, everything is stained with the thick, pungent blackness of oil.
Read moreRedwood forest suffers for Game of Thrones-style wedding
June 7, 2013Napster and Facebook co-founder Sean Parker decided to have a $2.5 million Game of Thrones-inspired wedding right in the middle of a California redwood forest, putting the ecosystem there at risk, as well as several threatened...
Read moreCancer patients more likely to go bankrupt
June 4, 2013Cancer patients are twice as likely to file for bankruptcy as people without cancer, a study in Washington State has found.
Read moreAudio: Demanding food safety, Houston protests GMOs
June 4, 2013Houstonians join food safety advocates around the world to demonstrate against a biotech giant they say may be poisoning us all.
Read moreJudge OKs Patriot Coal plan to renege on miners’ pensions
June 3, 2013A federal bankruptcy judge in St. Louis has left Patriot Coal's retirees - whom it inherited from Peabody Energy and Arch Coal - high and dry, and said Patriot could dump its union contracts, too.
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