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Forget Chicken Little's paranoid delusions about the sky falling. With chicken litter, we really do have a problem.
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How many environmentalists does it take to screw in a passive light bulb? None! And that's the beauty of it.
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You don't have to an eco-activist to switch to solar power anymore. Just a savvy consumer.
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With wind turbines popping up all over the world, wind power is quickly becoming one of today's most popular renewable energy sources. But what hap...
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Remember Pete Seeger's song, "Where have all the flowers gone?" He blamed their disappearance on young girls picking them.But with eight thousand f...
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Like its name, the Echo Parakeet is bouncing back. And the Mauritius Wildlife Foundation couldn't be happier.
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The latest air pollution discovery reads like a murder mystery. Thousands died from strokes and heart attacks within 24 hours after jumps in partic...
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Until now, fuel economy estimates on new vehicle stickers were about as believable as a used car salesmen. But all that's changing starting in 2008.
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Remember these lyrics from Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi? "Don't it always seem to go, That you don't know what you got till it's gone?" Unfortun...
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By 1999, the Round Goby a harmless-looking little bug-eyed fish from the Black Sea, was found in all five of the Great Lakes. And it was wreaking ...
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In April of 1990, biologist David Jude pulled a little bug-eyed fish from the Saint Claire River near Detroit. It was a Round Goby.
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Hurricane Katrina demonstrated just how destructive wind and water can be. New research into the genesis of these powerful storms could help coasta...
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The recent removal of the Bald Eagle from the endangered species list generated lots of excitement. And, another conservation success is giving us ...
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British scientists recently had this suggestion about the European Union's target of having ten percent of gas and diesel come from renewable resou...
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Surfing's been around a long time. And from Gidget, to the sport of Hawaiian kings; some two million "surfer dudes and dudettes" hit beaches worldw...
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In the midst of a drought, California is dry and getting drier. So a recent court ordered reduction in water pumped from the Sacramento-San Joaqui...
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What does rain forest conservation have to do with preventing malaria? In the Amazon rainforest, the means to these two ends are virtually one in t...
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How can we get more energy from our most abundant, clean, renewable resource? By concentrating.
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What do the Mauritius Dodo and the New Zealand Kakapo have in common? They're both flightless birds that will soon be extinct if someone doesn't re...
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Today, hundreds of millions of people carry pocket-sized cell phones. There are more than 213 million in use in the United States, and each year, a...
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Portuguese sailors must have been pretty lonely when they first sighted manatees off the Brazilian coast. Thinking they resembled sirens or mermaid...
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Imagine trying to get home by running across a busy freeway. Without a walkway, a stoplight or a crosswalk, it could be a dangerous adventure. Well...
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What's a good thing to sink your money into these days? Try bogs.
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