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Tehran Their Hair Out
Iran yesterday adopted a 10-year plan to tackle dismal air quality in its capital, Tehran, after weeks of nasty pollution problems that forced kids and elderly people to stay indoors and prodded others to don gas masks when venturing outside. The plan, which went into immediate effect, aims to improve the city’s public transportation system […]
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Merry Christmas, From an Angry Elf
The Earth Liberation Front has claimed responsibility for a Christmas Day fire that destroyed the Oregon regional headquarters of paper manufacturer Boise Cascade. In a communique sent to news agencies, the group contended that Boise Cascade has ravaged the forests of the Pacific Northwest and that it is now teaming up with a Chilean company […]
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Krilling Me Softly
The hole in the ozone layer may be responsible for a dramatic decline in krill numbers in the Antarctic Ocean, according to U.S. and German scientists working on a Japanese Fisheries Agency ship. The krill population off the Antarctic Peninsula south of Tierra del Fuego has dropped by about 75 percent since the mid-1980s, according […]
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Consuming Desires
Consumer demand for organic food is soaring in Europe, leading to a jump in the number of organic farms from 6,300 in 1985 to more than 100,000 in 1998, according to a report prepared last year for the European Union by Nicholas Lampkin of the University of Wales in Aberystwyth. Lampkin predicted that 10 percent […]
