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Mao-ie Zow-ie
China is moving forward with a massive project to redirect water from the nation’s longest rivers (including the Yangtze and Yellow) to the arid north, helping to quench the thirst of Beijing and other major northern cities. The water will travel via a canal network built over 50 years; costs could eventually exceed $24 billion. […]
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Big Bang
As if terrorist attacks weren’t enough of a threat, unexploded munitions at 16,000 inactive military ranges in the United States present “imminent and substantial” public health risks, according to newly released U.S. EPA documents. The agency said the problem might require the largest environmental cleanup program ever implemented by the feds. Jeff Ruch, director of […]
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Gonna Be a Bright Sunshiny Day
A year after voters approved a $100 million bond to boost solar power in San Francisco, planning is well underway to position the city as the country’s largest municipal generator of solar power and other renewable energies. Within five years, San Francisco hopes to add 10 megawatts of solar power to the electricity grid. In […]
