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Lifecycle of Today's Cell Phone
Posted: April 7, 2015It is estimated that in 2014 over two billion mobile phones were sold worldwide. Of these, over one billion were estimated to be smartphones. It is also estimated that a…
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Europe focuses on food safety on World Health Day
Posted: April 7, 2015On World Health Day (7 April), European Commissioners Vytenis Andriukaitis and Neven Mimica highlight the importance of food safety, malnutrition, and fighting health threats both in the Union and in…
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Endangered tortoises thrive on invasive plants
Posted: April 6, 2015Most research on the role of introduced species of plants and animals stresses their negative ecological impacts. But are all introduced species bad actors? In one fascinating case the answer might…
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California's Water Situation is Beyond an Emergency
Posted: April 6, 2015Originally Published on the ECOreportCalifornia’s water situation is beyond an emergency, according to Healdsburg resident Dave Howard. He and his sons returned from a “ski trip” in Northern California.“The peaks…
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Yum! Brands announces zero deforestation policy for palm oil
Posted: April 6, 2015Yum! Brands, the company that owns KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut, on Thursday announced a zero deforestation policy for its palm oil sourcing. The move came after aggressive campaigns…
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Why does water rationing in California exclude fracking and agribusiness?
Posted: April 6, 2015California has responded to the drought by rationing water, with $500 fines for domestic 'water wasters', writes Evan Blake. But agribusiness and water-intensive industries like fracking remain untouched by the…
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President Obama approves Arctic drilling
Posted: April 5, 2015President Barack Obama has seemingly spent a lot of his second term trying to cement his reputation as one of the United States’s most environmentally conscious leaders. However, his most…
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White fat, brown fat, now beige fat and obesity
Posted: April 4, 2015Those extra pounds around your belly that no amount of exercise seems to shake off? That's not just fat; it's what scientists call white fat – unhealthy, energy-storing fat.Brown fat,…
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Maryland Crab Cake Fraud
Posted: April 3, 2015Maryland crab cakes are as important to Baltimore’s heritage as Hairspray, the Star Spangled Banner and Orioles baseball. In fact, many would say a visit to Maryland would be lacking…
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Ice melt endangers Arctic mammals
Posted: April 2, 2015Three kinds of whale, six varieties of seal, the walrus and the polar bear all have these five things in common: they are marine mammals; they depend on the Arctic…
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