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U.N. Report Sees New Pollution Threat »
Posted by: idyll 4 days, 23 hours ago in News
A noxious cocktail of soot, smog and toxic chemicals is blotting out the sun, fouling the lungs of millions of people and altering weather patterns ...
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Capitalism and the oceanic crisis: Turning the seas into a watery grave »
Posted by: _kam0_ 3 months, 1 week ago in News
The world ocean covers approximately 70 per cent of the Earth. It has been an integral part of human history, providing food and ecological services ...
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Feds: Common pesticides jeopardize salmon survival »
Posted by: ap 3 months ago in News
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) _ Three pesticides commonly used on farms and orchards throughout the West are jeopardizing the survival of Pacific salmon, the federal ...
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States Accuse Pentagon of Threats, Retaliation Concerning Clean-up of Polluted Military Sites »
Posted by: idyll 1 month, 4 weeks ago in News
Environmental officials from several states that have tried to force the Pentagon to clean up polluted military sites say the Defense Department has retaliated by ...
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Zork Green Tip 31 - Tree Hugs Instead of Bear Hugs »
Posted by: jedankitty 3 weeks, 5 days ago in Humor
They make oxygen for you for free. They give shelter to your Earthling animal friends. Humans should form tree hug clubs all over the Earth.
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Why we never need to build another polluting power plant »
Posted by: Jordan 3 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Coal? Natural gas? Nuke? We can wipe them all off the drawing board by using current energy more efficiently. Are you listening, Washington?
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Skateboards Can Help Save the Planet »
Posted by: jedankitty 2 months, 1 week ago in Humor
Please do not attempt to ride your skateboard on your highways full of metal transportation devices expelling large amounts of carbon dioxide into the air.
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Recycling Plastic - A vision of the Future »
Posted by: drbest 3 months, 1 week ago in News
Plastic, it is so everywhere in our lives, so many places we hardly even notice it. Bags, wrappers, containers, bottles and on and on, I ...
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U.S. Olympians Seek the Heat to Train for Beijing Games »
Posted by: Fedquip 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Sports
Running in sauna-like chambers and the sticky Texas humidity is helping athletes adjust their bodies to perform at their peak during the 2008 summer games ...
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First Evidence Common Pollutant - Perchlorate May Reduce Iodine Levels in Breast milk »
Posted by: somedianetworks 1 month ago in Health & Fitness
Texas based researchers found that an increasingly common pollutant called perchlorate may interfere with the bioavailability of the iodine in breast milk, thus decreasing an ...
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Mexican marijuana cartels sully US forests, parks »
Posted by: Shankari25 1 month, 1 week ago in News
The grow sites have taken hold from the West Coast's Cascade Mountains , as well as on federal lands in Kentucky , Tennessee and West Virginia .
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The Weekly Carboholic: David Evans' climate facts hardly factual »
Posted by: angliss 3 months ago in Science & Technology
This week: David Evans' debunked; deserts may be carbon sinks; environmental cartoons; MIT develops cheap water electrolysis catalyst for hydrogen; utilities worry about plug-in cars ...
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The Chinese Human Rights Olympics »
Posted by: reportage 3 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Beijing, China -- The upcoming 2008 Summer Olympic Games have prompted the People's Democratic Republic of China to upgrade its transportation infrastructure, erect vast new ...
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Photos: North America Light Pollution 1950 -2025 »
Posted by: Elianor 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
The maps
show artificial night sky brightness and are based on upward light
measured by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program after accounting
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Dutch paving stones clean air pollution »
Posted by: iteen 3 months, 1 week ago in News
The University of Twente (UT) has devised a concrete capable of converting the nitrogen oxide from car exhaust--the source of smog and acid rain--into a ...
