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From Poop to Pod
Forest dump If you drop some logs in a national park and no restroom cleaners are around to hear it, does it make a sound? We’ll soon find out, as budget crunches are forcing cutbacks on park luxuries … like clean bathrooms. Said one pooper of a Yosemite restroom, “It looked like nothing had been […]
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Legendary music fest Bonnaroo urges fans to go green
Two’s company, 80,000’s a crowd. Photos: Sarah van Schagen. For most of the year, this 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tenn., provides open, grassy pasture for a herd of cows. But for a short time each summer, the idyllic setting is taken over by a different kind of herd: the tens of thousands of fans who […]
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Happy Happy Day!
Are you happy yet?
A psychologist says he can prove that Friday 23 June, today, will be the happiest day of the year.
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If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Coin ‘Em
Sierra Club will focus more funds on state and local political races The Sierra Club plans to substantially boost the amount of money it spends on state and local races this year — a tacit acknowledgement that the current federal government is a lost cause. Whereas in past years the club put about 5 percent […]
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Hey, Poacher, Leave Those Squids Alone
Pirates cause a social and environmental ruckus in Africa There’s lots of money involved in commercial fishing off African coastlines — a full trawler can bring in over $400,000. The high stakes, poor regulation, and lack of coast guards lure “pirates,” foreign anglers who bully locals and deplete area fish stocks illegally. Many unlicensed vessels […]
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It’s Wicked, Wicked Real
Two new high-profile studies reaffirm global-warming science Last year, the National Academy of Sciences was commissioned by Congress to rigorously assess a notorious climate study that has become a flash point in the debate between global-warming denialists and the other 98 percent of us. The study contained a graph that’s come to be known as […]
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C’est Bonn
Legendary music fest Bonnaroo urges fans to go green What do you get when 80,000 blissed-out music fans spend four days in the Tennessee sun? Besides sunburns in inconvenient places, that is. You get trash: 600 tons of it. And you get a captive crowd, which makes it a fine time to offer words of […]
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Environment is center stage in California governor’s race
Enviros are scrambling for ringside seats to the California gubernatorial race, poised to become a green mêlée of WrestleManian proportions. In one corner of the ring is Arnold “The Governator” Schwarzenegger (R); in the opposite corner, his newly designated Democratic opponent, Phil “State Treasurator” Angelides. Each will try to use his formidable environmental record to […]
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Your coaly future
The graph under the fold is taken from the Energy Information Administration's International Energy Outlook 2006. Read it and weep.
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New study on global warming and hurricanes
The report from the National Academy of Sciences was not the only climate study released today. A pair of scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research released a study -- to be published in the coming issue of Geophysical Research Letters -- that purports to show that the majority of the warming of ocean waters that led to the horrendous hurricane season of 2005 is attributable to global warming.
Sea-surface temperatures in the tropical Atlantic in 2005 were an average of 1.7 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the 1900-1970 average:
