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Why the best world-changing ideas begin in your neighbourhood...
Your ideas for changing the world may be desperately important. But if you can’t find a way to engage the interests of the people around you they may never take off, argues John-Paul Flintoff. The environmental movement has often been guilty of making people despondent, either by talking... 
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Charting a new environmental course in China...
Founded in 1951, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) works in more than 30 countries and has projects in all 50 of the United States. The Conservancy has over one million members, and has protected more than 119 million acres of wild-lands and 5,000 miles of rivers worldwide. TNC has taken an active... 
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The Fall of the Reef Shark...
Sharks have a reputation of being apex predators of the sea. But even they have their weak points. Many shark populations have plummeted in the past three decades as a result of excessive harvesting – for their fins, as an incidental catch of fisheries targeting other species, and in recreational... 
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Study links fungi to early vascular plants...
Cooperating with fungi didn’t just help the earliest plants spread across a barren, rocky landscape; it also played a decisive role in the rise of more complex plants with roots and leaves that make up most of today’s flora. That’s the conclusion of a recent study, which used... 
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Is "Wine on Tap" a More Sustainable, Drinkable Alternative?...
An innovation in wine drinking is emerging in California restaurants: wine on tap. Wine served from a keg is not a new concept; it has a long-standing history in Europe. But here in the United States, wine on tap has been brought to the market and failed – more than once; first in the 1970s,... 
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G8 Leaders Agree to Act on Climate, Air Pollution...
At the Camp David meeting last week, G8 leaders agreed to act on climate change and air pollution by focusing on methane, black carbon (soot), and hydroflurocarbons (HFCs). Original post: G8 Leaders Agree to Act on Climate, Air Pollution  Read More →
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Leaf ’stamp’ could detect crop diseases...
Crop diseases could be detected earlier and more easily if a new method that stamps a leaf with a color-changing biosensor is successful. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded US$100,000 to Hideaki Tsutsui of the University of California, Riverside, earlier this month (9 May) to develop... 
Republicans try to force the military to use dirty energy it doesn’t want
Republicans try to force the military to use dirty energy it doesn’t...
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Lord Monckton delights Heartland conference with birther antics
Lord Monckton delights Heartland conference with birther antics...
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The Domino’s effect: The pizza giant refuses to phase out inhumane pork
The Domino’s effect: The pizza giant refuses to phase out inhumane p...
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