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Ancient Lake Vostok...
After 20 years of drilling, a team of Russian researchers is close to breaching the prehistoric Lake Vostok, which has been trapped deep beneath thick ice layers (2 miles thick) in Antarctica for the last 14 million years. Lake Vostok... 
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UPS Foundation Donates $6M To Champ...
It’s good news for the human environment. The UPS Foundation today announced almost 120 grants totaling more than $6 million to non-profit organizations around the world that champion diversity and support diverse communities.... 
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Do Pollutants Cause Breast Cancer?...
Breast cancer is partly caused by toxic chemicals in the environment, according to a recent study by the Institute of Medicine (IOM). These pollutants are surprisingly common, and most women are exposed to them from a variety of sources.... 
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Energy Conservation in Our Artifici...
The outside world may be unforgiving, but science and technology has made comfortable artificial environments with heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC). HVAC has made it possible for us to live almost anywhere on the planet.... 
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Better Place Puts 100 Electric Cars...
After more than four years in the making, media reports and hype, visits to the Better Place Education and Test Drive Center and final delivery prices, Better Place Renault Fluence ZE electric cars are finally on their way to purchasers... 
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Arsenic cancer risk still high deca...
People exposed to very high levels of arsenic in Chilean drinking water back in the 1950s and 60s are still showing a higher-than-normal risk of bladder cancer — years after the arsenic problem was brought under control, a new... 
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Finding Nature’s Speed Limit...
The speed of light is considered to be the limit at which no object can go faster. But here on Earth, nature has its own speed limit which affects its fastest creatures every day. The speed at which an animal can go, and human aircraft... 
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Permafrost...
In geology, permafrost, cryotic soil or permafrost soil is soil at or below the freezing point of water (0 °C or 32 °F) for two or more years. Ice is not always present, as may be in the case of nonporous bedrock, but it frequently... 
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Acid Rain Change...
Acid rain is a rain or any other form of precipitation that is unusually acidic, meaning that it possesses elevated levels of hydrogen ions (low pH). It can have harmful effects on plants, aquatic animals, and infrastructure. Acid... 
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Working in an office can damage you...
In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists are reporting that the indoor air in offices is an important source of worker exposure to potentially toxic substances released by carpeting, furniture, paint and other items. Their report,... 
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Cruise Ship Environmental Issues...
When one thinks of cruise ships, one thinks of grand luxury, solitude, safety, and big. The January 13 capsizing of the Concordia off the coast of Italy, in which at least 11 people died, caught the world — including the cruise ship... 
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NASA GISS Identifies 14 Air Polluti...
Fourteen air pollution control measures, if implemented today, could not only slow the pace of global warming, according to an intensive study by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), but also improve health and... 
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Fish Brains and Carbon Dioxide...
Carbon dioxide has many different effects depending on how one is exposed to it. Still no one had suspected a link to brains and neural connections until now. The Australian Research Council’s Center of Excellence for Coral Reef... 
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Sumatran rhinos find each other...
Puntung is a Sumatran rhino, one of roughly two hundred left in the world. Captured in a Borneo forest on Christmas Day, she is the latest addition to Malaysia’s Borneo Rhino Sanctuary — and experts say she may also be... 
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Atmospheric Particles causing more ...
A rise in the atmosphere of aerosols – miniscule particles which include soot, dust and sulphates – has led to more rainfall in certain parts of the world and could provide vital clues for future climate predictions, a... 
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Jobs for the Poor? Save the Wild fo...
The best things in life aren’t really free. Fresh air, clean water, and bountiful crops all depend on healthy ecosystems. But research published in BioScience pointed out that the communities which steward those environmental... 
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Increase Gas Mileage by Preventing ...
A joint study from the VTT Technical Research Centre in Finland and America’s Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) has concluded that at least one third of a car’s fuel consumption is used in overcoming friction. Friction... 
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What environmental policy could we ...
by Jess Zimmerman. Stephen Colbert has officially thrown his hat in the ring for definitely possibly considering a run for president. He's already out-polling Jon Huntsman ! So what kind of environmental policy platform could... 
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Scientist blames James Bond for lac...
by Sarah Laskow. Anti-nuclear campaigners, why do you dislike nuclear power? Is it because of the risk of massive meltdowns? The unsolved issue of what to do with waste? The lack of realistic evacuation plans? Or is it the influence... 
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American beef consumption is at a 5...
by Jess Zimmerman. According to this graph from the Daily Livestock Report , we are way past Peak Beef . U.S. beef consumption has been dropping for the last 40 years, and projections put it back down at 1950s levels this year, which... 

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