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Study Tracks Southern Beaufort Sea Polar Bear Population Decline
Posted: November 17, 2014In a new polar bear study published today, scientists from the United States and Canada found that during the first decade of the 21st century, the number of polar bears in the…
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Obama Announces $3 Billion Pledge to U.N. Climate Fund
Posted: November 17, 2014Right on the heels of his historic climate agreement with China, President Barack Obama announced a pledge of $3 billion to the United Nations’ thus far underfunded Green Climate Fund….
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Home cooked meals contribute to a healthy diet
Posted: November 17, 2014People who frequently cook meals at home eat healthier and consume fewer calories than those who cook less, according to new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research."When people…
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Electric vehicles WILL go mass market. Here's why.
Posted: November 16, 2014Over the last 100 years there have been a number of attempts from electric vehicle enthusiasts to push them into the mass market. Unfortunately the vast majority of these attempts…
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European Space Agency's Rosetta Makes Historic First Landing on a Comet
Posted: November 15, 2014On Wednesday, Nov. 12, the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission successfully landed on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Descending at a speed of about 2 mph (3.2 kilometers per hour)…
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New protection for migratory birds
Posted: November 14, 2014Two new international agreements will help to save migratory birds from hunting, trapping and poisoning, and to protect their long-distance flyways. A key objective is to phase out lead shot…
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Uranium mining in Greenland an election year issue
Posted: November 14, 2014The upcoming general elections in Greenland may see the country moving away from the idea of extracting and exploiting uranium, which the government voted in favour of just a year ago.Uranium…
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How Sustainable is the Modern Diet?
Posted: November 14, 2014The world is gaining weight and becoming less healthy, and global dietary choices are harming the environment, according to a new research report. Those are among the findings of a paper…
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Want to Help Fight Wildlife Crimes? There's an App for that!
Posted: November 13, 2014We know wildlife trafficking has become a huge problem for wild animals and imperiled species, but making it illegal is only part of the solution. Without the ability to identify…
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ENERGY STAR's first multifamily properties announced today
Posted: November 13, 2014Roughly one-third of the U.S. population lives in the country’s 500,000 multifamily buildings, and they spend $22 billion on energy every year. Until this year, apartment and condo managers lacked…
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