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Studying Great Salt Lake's High Mercury Levels »
Posted by: Beau7890 3 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
This summer, scientists are fanning out across the lake and its marshy shoreline for the start of what is expected to be a multiyear study ...
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Studying Great Salt Lake's High Mercury Levels »
Posted by: Beau7890 3 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
This summer, scientists are fanning out across the lake and its marshy shoreline for the start of what is expected to be a multiyear study ...
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U.S. Cyclists Arrive in Beijing Wearing Masks »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Sports
After months of speculation about how Olympic athletes would react to the air quality problems here, some answers arrived at the airport Tuesday when four ...
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Protect Pets and Kids »
Posted by: hurr1 3 months, 2 weeks ago in News
We have to keep waters clean, healthy and safe. In the last few years, anti-environmentalists have worked hard to exclude waters from environmental protection laws ...
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Scientists alarmed by ocean dead-zone growth »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 3 months ago in Science & Technology
Dead zones where fish and most marine life can no longer survive are spreading across the continental shelves of the world's oceans at an ...
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Junk Mail Produces as Much CO2 as 7 States Combined »
Posted by: Aidenag 3 months, 1 week ago in News
A report by the group ForestEthics estimates that destroying forests to make paper for junk mail releases as much greenhouse gas pollution as 9 million ...
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Experts find 'chemical equator' dividing globe »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Scientists have discovered a "chemical equator" that divides the polluted air of the Northern Hemisphere from the largely uncontaminated atmosphere of the Southern Hemisphere.
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Bayer on defensive in bee deaths »
Posted by: Aidenag 2 months, 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Bayer CropScience is facing scrutiny because of the effect one of its best-selling pesticides has had on honeybees. A German prosecutor is investigating Werner Wenning ...
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Brown clouds threaten world food supply »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 4 days, 13 hours ago in Science & Technology
Thick brown clouds of soot, particles and chemicals stretching from the Persian Gulf to Asia threaten health and food supplies in the world, the U ...
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C02 emissions in '07 outpaced most dire projections »
Posted by: Aidenag 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
The rise in global carbon dioxide emissions last year outpaced international researchers' most dire projections, according to figures being released today, as human-generated greenhouse gases ...
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Tax What We Burn, Not What We Earn »
Posted by: Shana4Liberty 2 weeks, 3 days ago in Politics
I am generally against most all government activities in the marketplace, especially those that involve social micromanagement; however, there is one idea that started on ...
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Key Ocean Resource In Decline »
Posted by: hurr1 3 months, 4 weeks ago in News
The Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of Massachusetts is home to a extraordinary diversity of marine life. But trawling and draggers, ship ...
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Beijing begins Olympics with massive show »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 3 months, 1 week ago in News
Once-reclusive China commandeered the world stage Friday, celebrating its first-time role as Olympic host with a stunning display of pageantry and pyrotechnics to open a ...
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An Environment Without Property Rights »
Posted by: populist 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
When Eastern Europe began to open up in the late 1980s, one of the great shocks was the severity of its environmental problems. Journalists reported ...
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Four Days Before Games, Beijing Air Is Thick »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Sports
While the sky in Beijing was blue several days last week, it was smoggy and humid on Monday, and some athletes have already felt the ...
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