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Cost of agriculture related emissions outweigh benefits
Posted: March 29, 2014Revenues associated with ammonia pollution generated by agriculture equate to higher than expected health care costs according to Harvard researchers Fabien Paulot and Daniel Jacob. The NASA funded study used…
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A sooner Spring and a later Autumn suggests the new normal
Posted: March 28, 2014A study by the University of Southampton suggests that on average the end of Autumn is taking place later in the year and Spring is starting slightly earlier. A team…
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Three Mile Island – 35 years on
Posted: March 28, 2014Thirty-five years ago today the USA had its worst ever civilian nuclear accident with a reactor meltdown at Three Mile Island. Linda Pentz Gunter reports on the lies and cover…
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Sustainability is Important to Most American Food Shoppers, Survey Finds
Posted: March 28, 2014A new survey of American consumers provides some potentially surprising findings that indicate American food shoppers are very mindful about what they place into their shopping carts, and it’s not…
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Are Your Shaving Razors Inspired by Frog and Cricket Legs?
Posted: March 21, 2014Despite the fact that no animals (except for humans!) shave, it turns out the animal kingdom can teach us a thing or two about shaving. Researchers at the Technion have…
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Floods in Britain: a sign of things to come?
Posted: March 20, 2014A new investigation of long-term weather records suggests that the recent flooding in the south of England could signal the onset of climate change. The research, from UWE Bristol, Loughborough…
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Fix-a-Leak Week
Posted: March 20, 2014According to WaterSense, an Environmental Protection Agency Partnership Program, household leaks waste more than a trillion gallons of water annually. Our urgency to conserve often depends upon what part of…
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Forest Peoples at risk from ‘carbon grab’
Posted: March 20, 2014A new ‘carbon grab’ is under way as governments and corporations seize valuable rights to the carbon stored in standing forests, with UN and World Bank support. But there’s no…
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Leftover trees enhance the biodiversity of new forests
Posted: March 20, 2014Trees left standing after deforestation have a discernible impact on the composition of local biodiversity in secondary growth forests, according to a new study published in PLOS ONE. Researchers working…
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U.S. Public Transit Reports Record Ridership
Posted: March 20, 2014Don’t tell the public transit naysayers who maintain that Americans will never get out of their beloved automobiles: Americans took a record 10.7 billion trips on public transportation last year…
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