 Fighting global warming — at the dinner table May 05, 2008 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Substituting chicken, fish, or vegetables for red meat just once a week can help combat climate change — even more dramatically than buying locally sourced food, according to scientists in Pennsylvania who ... | |
 Amazon under threat from cleaner air May 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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The Amazon rainforest, so crucial to the Earth’s climate system, is coming under threat from cleaner air say prominent UK and Brazilian climate scientists in the leading scientific journal Nature. | |
 Baltic sea ice cover hits an all-time low: meteorologists May 03, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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The extent of ice covering the Baltic sea this winter reached an all-time low, since measurements began more than a century ago, Swedish meteorologists said. | |
 First-of-its-kind 14-country study ranks consumers according to environmental behavior May 07, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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The National Geographic Society and the international polling firm GlobeScan today unveiled a new mechanism for measuring and comparing individual consumer behavior as it relates to the environment. “Greendex™ ... | |
 Vog - volcanic smog - kills plants, casts a haze over Hawaii May 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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(AP) -- For eight years, Tony and Sam Bayaoa have grown thousands of bright red, yellow and pink protea flowers on their farm. Then last month, Kilauea volcano opened a new vent and began spewing double the ... | |
Finding the real potential of no-till farming for sequestering carbon May 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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The potential of no-tillage (NT) soils for increasing the soil organic carbon (SOC) pool must be critically and objectively assessed. Most of the previous studies about SOC accrual in NT soils have primarily focused on the ... | |
 Reservoir larger than Manhattan planned to help Everglades May 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Around South Florida's vast sugar cane fields, where turtles grow to the size of basketballs and alligators own the marsh, the silence of the swamp is broken by the sound of rumbling trucks and explosions. | |
 Palm oil wiping out key orangutan habitat: activists May 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
One of the biggest populations of wild orangutans on Borneo will be extinct in three years without drastic measures to stop the expansion of palm oil plantations, conservationists said Wednesday. | |
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