 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 ... | |
 Amazon under threat from cleaner air May 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 16 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. | |
 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. | |
 Artificial reef near Miami is cemetery, diving attraction May 10, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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(AP) -- About 45 feet beneath the ocean's surface lies a cemetery with gates, pathways, plaques and even benches. The Neptune Memorial Reef, which opened last fall, is seen by its creators as a perfect final ... | |
Ponds found to take up carbon like world's oceans May 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Research led by Iowa State University limnologist, or lake scientist, John Downing finds that ponds around the globe could absorb as much carbon as the world's oceans. | |
 Chilean troops force volcano evacuations May 08, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Police and soldiers cleared the last remaining people from the shadow of a Chilean volcano on Thursday after a strong, overnight explosion spewed glowing-hot rocks from its crater. | |
 Palm oil wiping out key orangutan habitat: activists May 07, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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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. | |
Ecological Impact of Bridge Design Is Not Trivial, UB Professors Say May 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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The latest delay in the construction of a new Peace Bridge between Buffalo and Ft. Erie, Ontario, may be trying the patience of Western New Yorkers, but the region has more to lose than time if it erects a bridge that destroys ... | |
 Oil powered Norway gradually turns into the wind 13 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
As Norway prepares for a future after oil, the gale-force potential of harvesting wind power off its long coastline has become an increasingly attractive proposition. | |
 Web tool puts wildlife diseases on the map May 08, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A new online map makes it possible, for the first time, to track news of disease outbreaks around the world that threaten the health of wildlife, domestic animals, and people. | |
 Japan aims to cut emissions by 60-80 pct by 2050: reports 14 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Japan aims to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by between 60 and 80 percent by 2050, news reports said on Sunday, as part of measures setting out the country's long term environmental goals. | |
 Fighting global warming — at the dinner table May 05, 2008 | User rating: 3.1 / 5 after 16 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 ... | |
Sounding out Congo Red May 06, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Brightly colored dyes such as the shimmering Congo Red commonly used in silk clothing manufacture are notoriously difficult to dispose of in an environmentally benign way. | |
 EU still far from agreeing biofuel standards: diplomats May 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
The European Union remains far from agreeing on how to tighten its rules for using biofuels, diplomats said Wednesday amid growing opposition towards such forms of energy. | |
Study shows mercury levels from products decreasing, though still at dangerous levels May 06, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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A recent study shows that mercury releases from products in the U.S. declined dramatically between 1990 and 2005, but that they continue to be a significant source of environmental contamination. Mercury released from products ... | |
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