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Ontario protects gigantic forest area
The Canadian province of Ontario will permanently protect a gigantic swath of boreal forest in what green group ForestEthics says is the largest conservation deal in Canada’s history and one of the top three forest protection initiatives anywhere, evah. Some 225,000 square kilometers of trees — that’s more than 86,800 square miles in American — […]
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Snippets from the news
• Your life is worth less than it was five years ago. • High gas prices mean more interest in online education and fewer traffic deaths. • Caviar could kill you. • British Columbia tries to stop extinctions. • Bird populations plummet.
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• Toyota will build Prius in U.S., suspend truck production. • Biggest U.S. photovoltaic plant to be built in Florida. • Delta smelt may go on endangered list. • New federal rules proposed for offshore fish farms. • Eco-nightclub opens in London.
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G8 nations agree to cut emissions 50 percent by 2050, presidential campaign ads go on attack over en
Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: To Half and to Hold The Electric Slide When Ads Attack! Slowly But Offshorely, the Drills are Gonna Turn I’m Restricted to You, Don’t You Know That You’re Toxic? Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: Be Cool Sachs Education
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Snippets from the news
• Soot from cargo ships twice as bad as thought. • China’s economy to become world’s biggest in 2035, says study. • Electric Mini Coopers coming to California. • Value of global carbon trading market nearly doubles from last year. • Greenland may open seven mines in next five years.
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E.O. Wilson’s mentors
The great biologist E.O. Wilson discusses the kinds of people who inspired him: Check out Grist’s interview with Wilson here.
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Snippets from the news
• E.U. approves deal to make airlines pay for emissions. • Condors at risk from fires. • State agency confirms federal jurisdiction over Cape Wind. • Alberta will spend billions to cut emissions. • Lawsuits imminent to keep oil companies from disturbing polar bears and to protect wolverines.
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Grist downtime
You may have noticed that Grist.org was inaccessible for most of the day today. On the bright side, none of us could get our email either, so we weren’t burdened by all the complaints people were sending in. Yeah, that’s really all I’ve got for bright side. The problem was not with the site but […]
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Coral reefs not doing so well
We’re in the midst of the International Year of the Reef, but there’s little to celebrate: Nearly half of coral reefs in U.S. waters are in “poor” or “fair” condition, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported at this week’s 11th International Coral Reef Symposium. Human activity messes with reefs in all sorts of ways, […]
