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• Shower curtains emit toxic chemicals. • Men use more energy than women — at least in Sweden. • Navy was practicing just before dolphins stranded. • Madagascar will sell offsets to fund rainforest conservation. • Group ranks best cities in which to weather an oil crisis. • New Hampshire joins Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

China earthquake shook up pandas

China’s destructive earthquake took a toll on wild panda habitat, State Forestry Administration officials said Thursday. Only 1,590 pandas still live in the wild, and about 1,400 of those live in China’s Sichuan Province, which was rocked hard by the quake. Officials estimate that some 8.3 percent of wild panda digs was completely destroyed, and […]

NOAA would require saltwater fishers to register

To keep better tabs on which fish are being yanked from federal waters, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has proposed requiring recreational anglers to join a national registry. For the past three decades, the agency has gleaned (insufficient) information on anglers and the fish they catch by asking questions at public docks and doing […]

McCain and Obama talk energy, groups sue over drilling in polar-bear habitat, and more

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