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  • May 2008

    • Artists Are Making Junk—Literally

      Chronicle of Higher Education  |  May 30, 08 8:25 PM CDT

      Artists Are Making Junk—Literally

      (Newser) - Beware the scruffy artists at the corner cafe—they may be serial polluters and not even know it, Laurie Fendrich writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education . Many painters, tree-huggers by claim, will flush chemicals down the drain, and ignore the carbon footprint of their synthetic pigments. They just "think of their paints as gooey stuff that can be turned into a nice painting," Fendrich writes. More »

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      art  • artist  • environmental damage  • toxic chemicals  • landfill  • toxic waste

  • December 2007

    • Deep, Dark Secrets Indeed

      New York Review of Books  |  Dec 8, 07 7:31 AM CST

      Deep, Dark Secrets Indeed

      (Newser) - Though the first deep-sea expedition took place in 1931, humans still know little about what goes on miles below sea level. What we do know is startlingly strange, Tim Flannery writes in a look at two new volumes in the New York Review of Books —and a rising tide of sewage is contaminating Earth's final "final frontier" faster than it can be studied. More »

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      fish  • ocean  • Atlantic Ocean  • Pacific Ocean  • sewage  • toxic waste

  • August 2007

    • Scientists Work on Life From Scratch

      Associated Press  |  Aug 20, 07 4:30 PM CDT

      Scientists Work on Life From Scratch

      (Newser) - A synthetic life form constructed in a lab from basic components could make its debut in the next 3 to 10 years, scientists say. Researchers are hard at work on creating a cell, which hopefully would be able to reproduce on its own. "It's going to be a big deal and everybody's going to know about it," says one expert. More »

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      global warming  • science  • artificial life  • toxic waste

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