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I Wish They All Could Be California Governors
California announced yesterday that it is filing suit against the feds over the issue of offshore oil drilling, demanding more of a say in decisions that will affect some of the state’s most scenic coastal stretches. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt outraged California officials and enviros last week by allowing oil companies to begin moving forward […]
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Ice, Ice Maybe
The Arctic Ocean’s ice cover has thinned by about 40 percent in the last 20 to 40 years, according to a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. The study’s researchers, from the University of Washington, were surprised by the dramatic shift, but couldn’t say whether it was the result of human-caused climate […]
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Meriwether Friend
The Sierra Club is launching a five-year campaign to protect and restore millions of acres of wildlands along the route traveled nearly 200 years ago by the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. The group has its eye on 34 sites in eight states, mostly public land, that it would like to keep from development. […]
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Without Mangroves, India is Swamped
Rapid logging of the mangrove forest that stretches across coastal areas in India’s southeastern state of Orissa seems to have contributed to the terrible destruction caused by an October 29 cyclone that killed at least 7,600 and affected some 15 million. The mangrove forest has traditionally protected inland areas from serious damage by cyclones and […]
