It’s not often that there’s a place for genuine straight geopolitical news on TreeHugger, but this is unfortunately one of those times.

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Maldives’ Climate Champion President Forced To Resign At Gunpoint

International scientists teeter between excitement and concern after reports from Russian news agency RIA Novosti that Russian scientists have drilled into the untouched Lake Vostok

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Russian Scientists May Have Drilled into Previously Untouched Subglacial Lake

A definite mixed bag of climate news coming through. Interesting, tiresome, and fairly dire.

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Climate News Recap: Year-Round Tea Harvesting, In England; Warming Claims Alaskan Cedars; More

The newspaper of record picks up on the issue that we have been covering for some time. Grist finds it all very funny; It’s not.

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Agenda 21 Plot Exposed in the New York Times and Grist

One solution to the Fermi Paradox is that there are “green aliens” that have reached a Utopian state of being in balance with nature by not generating waste products — and are therefore undetectable.

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Do Aliens Go Invisible by ‘Going Green’?

Learn how to grow rooftop pumpkins by coaxing the vines to grow upwards rather than outwards. Originally published as “I Grow Rooftop Pumpkins!” in the July/August 1977 issue of MOTHER EARTH NEWS. 

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Urban Gardening: How to Grow Pumpkins

By slapping pictures of green beans on lunch trays, a school prompts kids to choose the veggies from their buffet.

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Kids Picture Veggies — Then Eat Them

As Gasland director Josh Fox’s arrest stole the attention, politicians heard important testimony about fracking.

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Doctor Prescribes Preventive Medicine for Shale Gas

Sea cucumber poo may be the key to saving the world’s great coral reefs from devastation. Invasive pythons are doing damage in the Everglades, eight sea lions were found shot to death in Washington and more.

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The Week in Animal News: Powerful Sea Cucumber Poo, Giant Pythons Invade Florida and More

Bloomberg’s Peter Burrows reports that Apple is making rapid headway selling into corporations — especially financial services and pharmaceutical firms. Burrows writes that Apple’s corporate sales are being driven chiefly by iPad, which “has become a standard business tool.” The article quotes Matt Wallach, co-founder of Veeva Systems, who says: “I’ve seen a lot of devices come and go over the years. Nothing touches the speed of adoption of the iPad.” View original here: Apple Invades Corporate Market with iPad

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Apple Invades Corporate Market with iPad