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A Monica You Want to Hear About
Leaders of Santa Monica, Calif., declared yesterday that they are fed up with dirty air caused by coal-fired power plants and will power city-owned buildings with electricity generated from geothermal sources. The city is the first in a deregulated market to buy all its power from renewable sources, according to Global Green USA. Santa Monica […]
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Eh, B.C., You Get a "D" on Salmon
Salmon runs are rapidly declining in British Columbia mimicking patterns in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, according to speakers yesterday at a fish habitat symposium in Vancouver, B.C. Salmon are suffering as B.C. is being logged, farmed, and urbanized, and as fisheries protection and research remains underfunded. The Canadian and B.C. governments are locked in a […]
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Baby, You Can't Drive My Car
Hundreds of miles of roads in British town and city centers are being put off-limits to cars as local authorities make radical changes to transportation policies. Measures are also being put in place to make life more difficult and expensive for drivers in hopes that they will abandon their cars and get around by walking, […]
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Spore Judgment
Hundreds of tons of anthrax bacteria — enough to destroy the world many times over — was buried in an unsafe fashion on a remote island in the inland Aral Sea toward the end of the Cold War, reports the New York Times in a front-page expose. Soviet officials hastily shipped it to the area, […]
