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The Eagle Has Landed — With a Thump
The U.S. Department of Defense would be permanently exempted from an international law protecting more than 850 species of migratory birds, under a tentative agreement reached between negotiators from the House and Senate and disclosed by environmental groups yesterday. The negotiations began after the Bush administration complained that the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act interfered […]
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A Dehli-cate Balance
Delegates from around the world are meeting in New Delhi, India, today for the latest round of international talks on climate change. In part because the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions — the United States — has rejected the Kyoto Protocol, the meeting is focusing on ways to adapt to climate change rather […]
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Touching News
A whopping 83 percent of the surface of the Earth is dedicated to human activities — farming, mining, fishing, or just plain old living — according to a report released this week by the Wildlife Conservation Society and Columbia University’s Center for International Earth Science Information Network. Human use leaves wildlife with just a fraction […]
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Hawaii G-O!
There’s no shortage of sunlight in Hawaii — so why is there a shortage of solar energy? That’s the question Ed Smeloff and David Hochschild would like to answer. The two alternative-energy advocates pioneered the trailblazing $100 million solar bond initiative passed by the city of San Francisco last year; as cofounders of Vote Solar, […]
