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Demand for chopsticks killing trees
A Chinese legislator who heads a forestry company has urged the country to save more trees by reducing the 80 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks it makes each year.
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Bjorn Lomborg: Green Cars Have a Dirty Little Secret
In The Wall Street Journal, Bjorn Lomborg writes that producing and charging electric cars means heavy carbon-dioxide emissions.
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28 elephants killed by poachers in Cameroon
28 elephants killed as poachers decimate Africa's elephant population. The latest 28 killed only add to the 62 percent decline in Africa's forest elephants over the last decade.
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When hungry, Gulf of Mexico algae go toxic
When Gulf of Mexico algae don't get enough nutrients, they focus their remaining energy on becoming more and more poisonous to ensure their survival, according to a new study by scientists from North Carolina State University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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No, you will never have skyscrapers with trees on them
When we imagine the future of environmentally sustainable cities, it's common to depict them as forests of skyscrapers with, well, forests on them. But environmental writer Tim De Chant says that architects and futurists need to get real. Skyscrapers will never support trees. Here's why.
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Should we bring extinct species back to life?
On July 30, 2003, a team of Spanish and French scientists reversed time. They brought an animal back from extinction, if only to watch it become extinct again. The animal they revived was a kind of wild goat known as a bucardo, or Pyrenean ibex. The bucardo (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica) was a large, handsome creature, reaching up to 220 pounds and sporting long, gently curved horns...
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Katrina sized hurricanes could become 10 times more likely to happen
For the past century, a storm like Katrina could be expected to hit about once every 20 years or so. But as a new computer simulation suggests, our warming climate could result in a dramatic increase in these extreme hurricanes — and the devastating storm surges they bring along with them.
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Nations Change Too Slowly to Combat Climate Change
A conference at the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences notes that the incremental steps taken to address global warming are not enough.
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Scientists want to bring 22 animals back from extinction
Last weekend at a TEDx conference in Washington DC sponsored by National Geographic, scientists met to discuss which animals should be brought back from extinction. They also discussed the how, why and ethics of doing so.
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Can We Please Stop Drawing Trees on Top of Skyscrapers?
Just a couple of years ago, if you wanted to make something look trendier, you put a bird on it. Birds were everywhere. I'm not sure if Twitter was what started all the flutter, but it got so bad that Portlandia performed a skit named, you guessed it, "Put a Bird On It".
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'Big Brother Canada': Everything You Need To Know
I've been inside the "Big Brother Canada" house. OK, I might not have spent 10 weeks in the house like the 15 contestants are poised to do, but I spent a good eight hours in there with several other members of the Canadian media.
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Buzzkill? How Climate Change Could Eventually End Coffee
Coffee farmers all over the world are dealing with new threats to their crops.
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Exxon pipeline leaks thousands of barrels of Canadian oil in Arkansas
Exxon Mobil was working to clean up thousands of barrels of oil in Mayflower, Arkansas, after a pipeline carrying heavy Canadian crude ruptured, a major spill likely to stoke debate over transporting Canada's oil to the United States.
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Nuclear Power Prevents More Deaths Than It Causes
Using nuclear power in place of fossil-fuel energy sources, such as coal, has prevented some 1.8 million air pollution-related deaths globally and could save millions of more lives in coming decades, concludes a study.
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Inside BMW's Future Lab
In Mountain View, California, BMW researchers are working on the future of sustainable luxury cars.
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It’s Good To Be ExxonMobil: Oil Giant Not Required To Pay For Arkansas Spill
ExxonMobil Pipeline Co. will be required to fix the Pegasus pipeline, which has spilled an estimated 3,500 to 5,000 barrels of “low-quality Wabasca Heavy crude oil from Alberta” into central Arkansas.
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There's An Obvious Fix To China's Pollution Disaster
Recently the haze that lies over much of China's eastern region, including the capital, has been fodder for the newspapers, both here and abroad. And there is no doubt that the impact of the pollution on the economy, society, and public health is immense.
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Fish from 2011 tsunami washes up alive in Washington
A fish has been found washed up in Washington, aboard a boat believed to be a remnant of 2011's Japanese tsunami.
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Thank You Exxon: Mayflower, Arkansas' New Oil Lake
Yesterday, activist indy news team JNL RadikalMedia did what the mainstream media won't or can't do, providing exclusive video from the scene of Exxon's oil pipeline spill in Mayflower...
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Reporters Say Exxon Is Impeding Spill Coverage in Arkansas
Several reporters say they have been threatened with arrest in the course of their work on the Pegasus spill.
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