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Another Greenpeace of the Pie
Greenpeace International launched a program today to develop and promote sustainable technologies. The group’s new solutions-oriented unit will work on projects like desalination systems, sustainable transportation, and renewable energy technology. Greenpeace was inspired to begin the effort after its success in helping to green the Summer Olympic Games in Sydney. Still, the group says theatrical […]
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Johnny Rotten
ABC News yesterday reprimanded reporter John Stossel and suspended producer David Fitzpatrick for one month for their roles in a “20/20” report that questioned the safety and benefits of organic food, two days after the network acknowledged that the story contained false information. The report, broadcast in February and rerun in July, claimed that tests […]
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Bobby's World
Ralph Nader’s contention that there is no difference between Al Gore and George W. Bush is “irresponsible” and his campaign threatens the environment by potentially tipping the election toward Bush, writes Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., in an op-ed in today’s New York Times. Kennedy, a lawyer for the Natural Resources Defense Council and one of […]
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See You Later, Alligator
Scientists have been warning for years about shrinking amphibian populations, but now some researchers are saying that reptiles could be in even worse straits. Reptiles are in decline globally and a number of species face extinction, according to an article published in the journal Bioscience. For example, most species of sea turtles in warm oceans […]
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Lighting Las Vegas
The U.S. government plans to boost the development of geothermal energy systems in Western states, with the aim of having 10 percent of the West’s electricity generated by the earth’s heat within 20 years, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson announced yesterday. Richardson detailed 21 partnerships between private industry and the Department of Energy to fund geothermal […]
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Wild Horseshoe Crabs Couldn't Drive Virginia Away
In an effort to restore the devastated population of horseshoe crabs, the U.S. announced plans yesterday to create a 1,800-square-mile sanctuary stretching from Delaware Bay into the Atlantic where catching the crabs will be prohibited. U.S. Commerce Secretary Norman Mineta also threatened to shut down Virginia’s horseshoe crab fishing industry unless the state reduces its […]
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Democrats to See L.A. Skyline
As Los Angeles prepares to host the Democratic National Convention next week, local officials are talking up the city’s improved air quality. Since 1960, the last year the city hosted the DNC, the region has reduced its peak ozone levels by 68 percent. There were no smog alerts in the city last year and there […]
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Horns Aplenty?
The endangered African rhinoceros seems to be making a comeback, with numbers now higher than at any time since the early to mid-1980s, according to a new report by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and World Wildlife Fund. The IUCN estimates that there were some 13,000 African rhinos in the wild in 1999, compared to […]
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We're Not Out of the Woods Yet
The global rate of deforestation seems to be slowing, according to a preliminary study by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). In some regions, most notably the tropics, destruction of forests declined by as much as 10 percent from the 1980s to the 1990s. Major causes of forest loss include large development projects that […]
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Western lawmakers in Washington need to get with the times
Historians looking back on the turn of the millennium may well call it the golden age of conservation. In recent years, we have witnessed bold national efforts to protect the last wild places of the U.S. Western politicians could move mountains. Many of these lands are in the West, a place that itself is going […]
