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Democrats toughen up on finance reform. Could it work for clean energy?
More Americans say global warming exaggerated: poll
48 Hawaii-only species given endangered listing
World's top scientists to review climate panel
China and India to Join Copenhagen Climate Change Accord
Obama pushes climate change in White House meeting
Runaway Prius driver: Brakes were 'almost burned'
The public supports better policy on climate change than corporate environmentalists
Toyota hits back at claims of electronic defects
In Deal on Everglades, a Dream Is Deferred
In Aftermath Of Ash Spill, A New Round Of Challenges
The Switcase Scooter
Environmentalists see "Avatar" in oil sands
Study Says Undersea Release of Methane Is Under Way
Intelligent Designers Enlist Climate Skeptics in the War on Reality
Toyota Prius tops Japan sales despite recall woes
The health risks of a big carbon footprint
Satellite eye on Earth
British scientist in climate row admits 'awful' emails
Gore takes aim at climate change skeptics
Bloom: Thinking inside the box
Coffee hit by global warming say growers
Goodbye Hummer?
Giant iceberg breaks off from Antarctic glacier
Big fuel spill in Italy river Po may be deliberate
Disaster Awaits Cities in Earthquake Zones
Abu Dhabi Bailed Out Dubai - - Is the World is Next?
Meet Team Polar Bear
Summary Box: Fuel-cell startup unwrapping product
Make Poverty History: Make Clean Energy Cheap
Does Facebook deserve the hell it’s catching from Greenpeace?
Geo-engineering: the planet's savior or untested danger?
Climate science alive and well despite scandals: scientists
U.N. Climate Chief Resigns
Click It and Stick It to King Coal’s Dirty Bankers
Top UN climate official resigns
Maine residents push back against wind power farms
Climate change threat to berries
Obama to announce loan guarantee for nuclear plant
Climate scientist says IPCC report is 'robust and rigorous'
Cities Prepare for Life With the Electric Car
Greenpeace two plead not guilty in whale meat trial
Schools in water conservation bid
War at home: The local eco-warriors making a big noise
Penguins used in climate protest
Obama nuke plant loan reflects new energy strategy
Despite rain, California still fighting over water
Climate Cover Up still Rocking the Charts on Amazon
Midlands car industry in line for 'low carbon' funding boost
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Charges over Parliament protest A total of 55 people are charged over a climate change demonstration on the roof of the Houses of Parliament...
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Firm gets carbon capture funding Energy firm E.On is awarded a share of a £90m pot to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility designs for Kingsnorth...
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Carbon capture bid wins funding Scottish Power wins "tens of millions of pounds" in funding to develop technology designed to tackle climate change...
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Energy rebate for poor pensioners Some pensioners aged over 70 should receive an £80 rebate on their electricity bills this year...
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'Staff failed' in bridge collapse A report on the collapse of a railway viaduct finds there was a failure as staff did not know the type of structure they were dealing with...
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The week in wildlife From transparent frogs to giant plants with a taste for shrew droppings – the pick of this week's best flora and fauna images from around the world ..
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US: List polar bear as endangered Melting sea ice in the Arctic will kill thousands of bears in coming years, the US says, and continued commercial trade must not be allowed to make the situation worseIt is a familiar story in the climate change debate. The US government is at odds with the rest of the world and, despite criticism, wants other countries to change their minds and fall in line behind Uncle Sam.This time, the tale comes with an unexpected twist. This weekend, the US..
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Destruction test: Road-testing bike bags A good bike bag isn't cheap, so you need it to be able to withstand a bit of a beating over the years – we tested three outThis is the first of a new kind of group-test – one confined to items in the writer's possession, which he has been using and damaging for some time. Follow-up posts are particularly welcome from anyone who uses similar items and can testify to whether they stand up to a good kicking.Ortlieb dry bagsCost: About £100I've had s..
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Industries hoarding emission permits Saved permits can be used to meet future targets to cut emissions without reducing pollutionCompanies across Europe are hoarding permits to produce greenhouse gas emissions worth hundreds of millions of pounds, the Guardian can reveal.The surplus credits have been amassed from over-allocation of permits to pollute from the European emissions trading scheme, and by buying cheap credits from carbon-cutting projects in developing countries and holdi..
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Send us your spring snaps Celebrate the arrival of spring by posting your seasonal flora and fauna images on our Flickr groupDespite a fairly late arrival this year because of cold weather (in recent years the season has been starting 11 days earlier than usual), the signs of spring are once again upon us.To celebrate, we're collecting photos of the season by asking you to add your photos to our Flickr group. We're interested in both flora and fauna and all locations are ..
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Lean Green Racing Machine American transport designer Jordan Meadows has created the ultimate in green racing machines with his Metalback motorcycle design concept. ..
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Futuristic Bicycle Design American designer John Villareal's Futuristic Bicycle Design offers a “… peek into the future as materials and manufacturing advance”. ..
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BC's Raven Coal Mine Project Ten years ago Beanstalk Capital Corp. was a new company with nothing more than a listing on the TSE Ventures Exchange. Today it is Compliance Energy Corp., and its Raven Underground Coal Project is a proposal to mine 44 million tons (2.2 million a year) from a coal deposit near Fanny Bay on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. ..
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Green Your Ferrari! Meet the sexiest new hybrid on the market – the Ferrari 599 HY-KERS concept recently unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show 2010. The bright green Ferrari HY-KERS hybrid version of the 599 GTB Fiorano uses the kinetic energy recovery system from their Formula One program that reduces emissions by an estimated 30% over the standard V12 6 liter engine which puts out a monster 611bhp (456 kW) and 448 lb.ft (607 Nm). ..
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The Switcase Scooter Argentinian designer Francisco Lupin has created an ingenious solution for frequent travelers – the Nexus three-wheeled electric Switcase – a combined suitcase scooter. ..
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NOAA director urges better explanations of climate AP - Climate change is here and scientists need to do a better job of explaining it to the public, the director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Friday...
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Toyota engineer to assist probe of NY Prius crash AP - Police say Toyota is sending an engineer to help investigate a suburban New York accident in which the driver said her Prius accelerated on its own and slammed into a stone wall...
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Chinese zoo blamed for death of 11 Siberian tigers AP - Eleven rare Siberian tigers have died at a wildlife park in a startling case that activists say hints at unsavory practices among some zoos and animal farms in China: They are overbreeding endangered animals in the hopes of making illicit profit on their carcasses...
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Ocean pollution contaminating China shellfish: report AFP - China's coastal waters are increasingly polluted by everything from oil to pesticides, contaminating the nation's marine life including the shellfish supply, state press reported Friday...
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US terror suspect in Yemen worked at 5 nuke sites AP - Before he was rounded up in a sweep of suspected al-Qaida terrorists in Yemen, Sharif Mobley was a laborer at five nuclear plant complexes in Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania...
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The Looming Immigration Battle. Not That One! The More Important One Eventually, Congress will get around to “Immigration Reform.”  The process will be all too predictable.  There will be a lot of huffing and puffing from angry old white men trying to conflate the issue with “National Security” and using “invasion” imagery and thinly veiled racism.  There will be lots of posturing about “getting control of our borders.”  Anyone who puts forward reasonable ideas wil..
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Kerry and Graham Renew Bipartisan Energy on Climate Bill When Scott Brown’s Senate win in Massachusetts brought the forty-first vote against health care to the Republican caucus, Washington shifted its focus to other items that started high on the legislative agenda in 2009, but found their way to the back burner in the health care battle royale. A comprehensive energy reform and climate change bill climbed right to the top of the list. After all, the House already passed the Waxman-Markey bill ..
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Looking Beyond 2050 - Some Interesting and Disturbing Trends Fertility rates are declining around the world and most of what is written about this trend casts it in a positive light.  The cover story of last November’s Economist magazine carried the headline: “Falling Fertility - How the Population Problem is Solving Itself.”  It claimed that countries like China are enjoying a “demographic dividend” over the coming decades.  As positive as an end to human population increas..
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Farmers Dig-In Heels Against Cap-and-Trade American Farm Bureau takes hard-line stance against climate legislation, EPA At the opening of the four-day American Farm Bureau Federation convention in Seattle, Washington over the weekend, AFBF president Bob Stallman pushed for a tough stance against climate legislation currently being debated in Congress. Stallman called called for American farmers and ranchers to “aggressively respond to extremists” and “misguided, activi..
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Copenhagen Agreement Might Signal End of Post-9/11 Era Don’t look now, but true to the cliche, the Baby New Year that Greens first met with hope (maybe even “HOPE”) nearly a year ago is now a haggard old man shuffling for the exit. Looking back to January 2009, the baby looks increasingly childish for having harbored a genuine - if now decidedly naive - belief that “this is the year, and Copenhagen is the place” for global action on climate change. Yesterday’s anno..
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Mind the water hazard...floating golf course to be built in Maldives The island nation of the Maldives, confronted by rising oceans and a landscape that is just a few feet above sea level, is poised to build a floating golf course and convention centre in what could be the first of a series of futuristic off-shore developments designed to confront the threat of global warming. ..
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Humans must be to blame for climate change, say scientists Climate scientists have delivered a powerful riposte to their sceptical critics with a study that strengthens the case for saying global warming is largely the result of man-made emissions of greenhouse gases...
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Gore takes aim at climate change skeptics Former US Vice President Al Gore on took aim at skeptics who doubt the reality of human-caused climate change, saying he wished it were an illusion but that the problem is real and urgent. ..
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World's temperature record to be re-analysed The whole of the world's instrumental temperature record – millions of observations dating back more than 150 years – is to be re-analysed in an attempt to remove doubts about the reality of global warming. ..
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Pen Hadow returns to Arctic to study acidification of the oceans The explorer Pen Hadow is mounting a new expedition to the Arctic to research “climate change's evil twin” – the acidification of the oceans caused by emissions of carbon dioxide. Click here to see a map of the expedition. ..
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Kenya strongly opposes resumption of ivory trade NAIROBI, March 12 (Reuters ) - Kenya Friday underlined its strong opposition to any move to lift a ban on trading ivory ahead of a meeting on endangered species. ..
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White House finalizing rules to cut car emissions WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is finalizing rules on the first U.S. greenhouse gas emission standard for automobiles, which would raise average fuel economy 42 percent by 2016 in a bid to slash oil imports and fight climate change. ..
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British Columbia OKs 19 projects in clean power push OTTAWA (Reuters) - British Columbia has given the green light to 19 private-sector clean energy projects that will generate enough power to supply nearly 218,000 homes in Canada's Pacific Coast province. ..
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More Americans say global warming exaggerated: poll WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A growing number of Americans, nearly half the country, think global warming worries are exaggerated and more people doubt that scientific warnings of severe environmental fallout will ever occur, according to a new Gallup poll. ..
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Sushi chef, restaurant charged with serving endangered whale WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A California sushi chef and the restaurant in which he worked have been charged with illegally serving meat from an endangered Sei whale, the Justice Department said on Thursday. ..
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Talks to Address Trade in Tuna and Ivory Negotiations on protecting endangered species will open in Qatar with tensions over efforts to ban trade in bluefin tuna and to reopen exports of elephant ivory. ..
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Climate Change Threatens Migratory Birds, Report Says For the first time, an Interior Department report adds climate change to other factors threatening bird populations. ..
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Winter Games Yield Forecasting Insights A system used at the Games is part of a program to improve the accuracy of winter storm forecasting. ..
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Board Extends Deadline for Everglades Land Deal A vote kept alive a deal to pay $536 million for land from United States Sugar, but officials said they continued to struggle with whether the agency could afford it. ..
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Ground Zero Workers Reach Deal Over Claims A settlement of up to $657.5 million has been reached in the cases of thousands of rescue and cleanup workers who sued the city, according to city officials. ..
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Senators Meet With Polluter Lobbyists To Discuss 'Green Economy’ Bill lobbying_process.jpg Senators working to craft legislation to transition the U.S. economy to cleaner energy and provide green jobs for Americans have a critical task ahead of them.  The U.S. economy is lagging due to an addiction to foreign sources of dirty energy, among other reasons.  Leaders from government, the private sector and even the Pentagon acknowledge the need to move ..
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Lorne Gunther: Denial (and dumb analogies) are us car-off-cliff.jpg In a wonderfully silly update of the (Canadian newspaper the) National Post's campaign of climate change denial, columnist Lorne Gunther (picked up here in the Edmonton Journal) argues that global warming has ended - and to prove it, he imagines the earth as an out-of-control Toyota which he decides has run out of gas. What good fortune that might be (running out of gas in..
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New Naomi Oreskes Talk Available University of California (San Diego) science historian Naomi Oreskes has a new lecture on line, promoting her upcoming book: Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming <!--break-->..
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Cannibalizing Environmentalism: Tzeporah Berman under attack berman campbell.jpg Updated March 9, 2010 to take note of Oil Sands Truth There's nothing mainstream media loves more than the spectacle of environmentalists ripping one another limb from limb. Witness, for example, the CBC Vancouver Early Edition interview this morning (starting at 1:23:21) in which a little-known activist (Macdonald Stainsby) was invited to slag Tzeporah Berman, co-founde..
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Evidence Provided In UK Parliamentary Inquiry Into Climate Scientists Was Prepared By Oil and Gas Industry Consultant The Guardian just broke the news that a consultant to Shell and other oil and gas interests was the source of ‘evidence’ provided by the Institute of Physics in the current UK parliamentary review of the controversy in England over climate scientists’ emails stolen from servers at the University of East Anglia.The Guardian reports:“Evidence from a respected scientific body to a parliamentary inquiry examining the behaviour..
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Mind the water hazard...floating golf course to be built in Maldives The Islands of the Maldives, confronted by rising oceans and a landscape that is just a few feet above sea level, is poised to build a floating golf course and convention centre in what could be the first of a series of futuristic off-shore developments designed to counter the threat of global warming...
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Industry welcomes climate policy draft The government's consultation on its new climate change planning policy has met with widespread approval from leading members of the sector...
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Green policy views sought The government has announced a consultation on its natural environment planning policy...
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Land Use Consultants appointed Land Use Consultants (LUC) has been appointed to provide planning support for Natural England's regional teams under framework contracts over the next three years...
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Nuclear waste site searches slammed The UK is struggling to find a suitable site to bury the country's radioactive waste from the next generation of nuclear stations, the government's adviser has warned...
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Could San Francisco Launch a Coal-Free City Eco-Tourism Campaign? by Jeff Biggers “San Francisco: Where the Power is Clean and Life is Good”Hey kids! Walk across the Golden Gate Bridge without a film of mercury!Bring grandma and stroll through Chinatown and Fisherman’s Wharf free from the thousands of tons of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, and carbon dioxide emissions, as well as the particulate matter that lead to thousands of heart attacks and asthma attacks!Go to Alcatraz and ..
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Carbon neutral caution by Eric de Place There’s been a lot of ambitious talk lately about carbon neutrality. It’s exciting stuff, but it’s worth pausing to consider just how huge that challenge is. And what, precisely, does it mean Zero emissions, or lots of offsets  I thought it was interesting to take a look at the climate action plan from the city of Copenhagen. It’s certainly a contender for the title of the greenest and mo..
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The Maine Lesson of Cap and Trade by Eric de Place Last week, I referenced an official from Maine saying: “The investments we are seeing in renewable energy, in energy infrastructure, appear to be the largest wave of capital investment in the state’s history.” Which is obviously great news for the state, especially during a recession. Since then, the Kennebec Journal has reported on the formation of the Efficiency Maine Trust, which i..
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The State of Electricity Prices by Eric de Place I was messing around with some spreadsheets, and out popped this little guy: The chart plots the 50 states— minus Hawaii but plus DC— with the price of electricity on the vertical axis and consumption on the horizontal axis. (I left off Hawaii because it’s a serious outlier, with average electricity prices nearly twice as high as any other state.) A simple regression shows that price..
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Democrats toughen up on finance reform. Could it work for clean energy? by Jonathan Hiskes A funny thing happened outside the twisted world of Congressional energy politics. Over at the Senate Banking Committee, Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) announced he’s going to push forward with finance reform and consumer protection bill, even if Republicans don’t want to help. This comes after weeks of negotiating between Dodd and Tennessee Republican Bob Corker, who showed more interest in protecting l..
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Mind the water hazard...floating golf course to be built in Maldives The Islands of the Maldives, confronted by rising oceans and a landscape that is just a few feet above sea level, is poised to build a floating golf course and convention centre in what could be the first of a series of futuristic off-shore developments designed to counter the threat of global warming...
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More maize ethanol may boost greenhouse gas emissions Mandated increases in the production of maize-derived ethanol will lead to land-use changes that boost carbon dioxide emissions enough to make the fuel a worse environmental option than burning gasoline, according to a new analysis...
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Aquatic 'dead zones' contributing to climate change The increased frequency and intensity of oxygen-deprived "dead zones" along the world's coasts can negatively impact environmental conditions in far more than local waters. Scientists explain that the increased amount of nitrous oxide produced in hypoxic waters can elevate concentrations in the atmosphere, further exacerbating the impacts of global warming and contributing to ozone "holes" that increase our exposure to harmful UV radiation...
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Home Depot Shrinks Its Energy Bill The home improvement retailer makes headway on its plan to cut energy use by 20%...
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FuelCell Gets A Lift From Air Products Subcontract integrates clean energy technology into new hydrogen fueling station...
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RSPCA investigates mystery of starling flock that fell out of the sky The RSPCA is investigating the sudden death of more than 100 starlings that witnesses claim simply fell from the sky and landed in a front garden...
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500 species of plants and animals vanish because of humans, says study Nearly 500 species of plants and animals have disappeared in England in the past 200 years, according to the first comprehensive audit of native wildlife...
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Korea unveils the ‘future of transport’ — the Online Electric Vehicle Its inventors believe that this is the future of urban transport — but it was hard not to be underwhelmed as the test vehicle trundled around a circuit on the edge of the South Korean capital...
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UN to review errors made by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change The United Nations is to announce an independent review of errors made by its climate change advisory body in an attempt to restore its credibility...
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‘Gribble’ marine pest may be key to biofuel breakthrough, say scientists A marine pest could be the key to a biofuel breakthrough, say scientists. Gribble, which resemble pink woodlice, plagued seafarers for centuries by boring through the planks of ships and destroying wooden piers...
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Newborn Animals Around The World (PHOTOS) In honor of spring's coming arrival, we've compiled some of the newest additions to the animal kingdom from the past few weeks. Some of them, such as the anteater, are especially noteworthy as their species are at risk of extinction. And all of them are adorable. Check out these newborns, and vote for your favorite! ..
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Mitch Kapor's 'Green' Mansion: An Oxymoron? Mr. Kapor wants to build a 10,000-square-foot house, complete with a 10-car garage, in Berkeley, Calif. When the house won planning approval earlier this year, many neighbors were surprised -- not so much by the size of the house, or by its sleek design, but by the fact that, under Berkeley regulations, the house will qualify as "green." ..
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California Sea Lions Washing Up On Beaches By The Dozen Marine mammal experts report that dozens of sick and hungry sea lion pups have washed up on California shores this winter, many not making it even with the help they get at rescue centers. ..
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Avital Binshtock: Go, Dog, Go: Next Vacation, Bring Your Pup Like Steinbeck's poodle, Charley, many animals know that a trip is in the offing "long before the suitcases come out." We assume that your rescued, neutered buddy already wears a sustainably made collar, snoozes on an eco-friendly bed, and produces poop that gets scooped into biodegradable bags. When it comes time to hit the road with your furry companion, consider packing these green, portable accessories as well. The bendy, BPA-free P..
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Julie Packard: Will We Only Save the Cute? Can we muster the will to save endangered species that aren't cute and cuddly It's hardly an abstract question. IUCN -- The World Conservation Union -- has more than 1,200 species on its Red List. These animals and plants are, to varying degrees, on a path toward extinction. Many are ocean animals. Few are cute or cuddly, but they all need our help. Over the past 25 years, I've found that having people meet and fall in love with marine..
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