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submitted by Ari 207 weeks 4 days 17 hours 17 minutes ago
Overcoming deep divisions within its Democratic majority, the House passed legislation on Friday intended to address the threat of global warming and transform the way the United States produces and uses energy.
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submitted by JKM for team Green Living 227 weeks 3 days 21 hours 22 minutes ago
Sound and images as poor Kenyans eye green riches
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submitted by Ari 291 weeks 1 day 15 hours 16 minutes ago
General Motors plans to introduce a new hybrid model every three months for the next four years and says the auto industry is entering an era where it will "shift significantly to a different model of propulsion" because reliance on petroleum "is not going to work"
That's...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Obama Watch 156 weeks 6 days 23 hours 17 minutes ago
AFP - BP on Wednesday agreed to pay 20 billion dollars into an independently run fund to meet the spiralling costs of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, bowing to tough demands from President Barack Obama.
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submitted by Grace for team Green Living 228 weeks 1 day 10 hours 39 minutes ago
Chinese officials told the state media that birth defects are increasing at an alarming rate and that a major reason was degradation of the environment.
"The number of newborns with birth defects is constantly increasing in both urban and rural areas," Jiang Fan, vice minister of the...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Outdoor news 168 weeks 1 day 11 hours 39 minutes ago
America's dwindling honey bee population has been badly hit by the bitter winter, the harshest in decades, with experts warning that winter losses could be as high as 50 percent.
Beekeepers normally lose around 10 percent of their colonies during the wintertime, when food stores are low...(more)
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submitted by Jenna for team Bicyclism 307 weeks 2 days 20 hours 35 minutes ago
The mayor of crime-ridden, smog-choked Mexico City is trying to do what some might consider impossible: transform his megalopolis into a place that's more healthy, livable and even fun.
And despite much skepticism, initiatives such as "urban beaches" and outdoor movies have become a wild success.
Mexico's capital...(more)
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submitted by Lisa 150 weeks 11 hours 23 minutes ago
The government is expected to announce on Wednesday that three-quarters of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak has already evaporated, dispersed, been captured or otherwise eliminated — and that much of the rest is so diluted that it does not seem to pose much additional...(more)
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submitted by Bert for team Green Living 306 weeks 2 days 2 hours 52 minutes ago
Until recently, nuclear power seemed to be making its way back into public favour in Germany. A warm winter, and dire warnings by scientists about climate change, convinced many that carbon emissions might be a bigger danger than nuclear accidents or radioactive waste. Opinion polls this...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Obama Watch 172 weeks 3 days 11 hours 37 minutes ago
President Barack Obama has ordered the rewriting of the draft new US Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), amid frustration in the White House that the document fails to reflect his aspirations for a nuclear-weapons-free world and an end to "cold war thinking".
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Green Living 159 weeks 5 days 2 hours 33 minutes ago
The concept of peak oil, where the inaccessibility of remaining deposits ensures that extraction rates start an irreversible decline, has been the subject of regular debate for decades. Although that argument still hasn't been settled—estimates range from the peak already having passed us to its arrival...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Iraq news 206 weeks 10 hours 26 minutes ago
A giant dust storm that has raged through Iraq and other Middle East countries for more than a week has been imaged by satellite.
