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Ask Umbra: On fridge-freezer efficiency |
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Dear Umbra, Are there any environmental advantages to the refrigerators with the freezer on the bottom and the fridge on the top? Annette, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Climate change linked with rise of world's earliest civilisations |
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Past changes to the climate that generated increasingly arid conditions for ancient peoples helped to trigger the rise of the earliest civilisations on three continents, a study has found. The ancient...
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Muckraker: Obama leads bipartisan effort to raise fuel-economy standards |
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Is the sting of $75-a-barrel oil and the threat of World War III exploding in the Middle East enough to convince Congress to finally boost auto fuel economy? Probably not, but a bipartisan coalition of senators led by Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is launching an admirable new effort anyway -- the Fuel Economy Reform Act.
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Daily Grist: Wednesday, 26 Jul 2006 |
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Top environmental news from around the globe.
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Global Warming Puts 12 U.S. National Parks on the Endangered List |
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U.S. national parks are also national treasures, especially those in the American West where snow-covered mountains, dense forests and untamed rivers seem to symbolize the American spirit. But 12 of...
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Tug of War Is on in Montana Over Public Access to Waterway |
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Landowners along Mitchell Slough say it is no more than a man-made ditch and therefore exempt from a law requiring public access to natural waterways.
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ENN: China to Invest $175 Billion in Environment Clean-Up - July 18, 2006 |
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UNEP: Climate Change Threat to Pacific Ocean Mangroves - July 18, 2006 |
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NPR : China Races to Rescue Its Shrinking Wetlands |
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Lake Baiyangdian, a network of nearly 150 lakes that form North China's largest wetland ecosystem, has shrunk by one-third in recent years, and lost many of its plant and animal species. The government is trying to rescue what ecologists call North China's kidney before it runs dry.
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CNN.com - Climate experts: Gore's movie gets the science right - Jun 27, 2006 |
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The nation's top climate scientists are giving "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore's documentary on global warming, five stars for accuracy.
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Planet Ark : Africa's Natural Wealth Key to Fighting Poverty - UN |
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Africa must harness its teeming mineral, freshwater, tourism and land resources to help fight poverty, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said on Tuesday.
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Planet Ark : ANALYSIS - Scramble for China's Wind Power Market Heats Up |
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Only 14 months after agreeing to work together, China's state-owned rocket maker and its Spanish partner are churning out wind turbines from this plant north of Shanghai.
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Planet Ark : Talks Fuel Speculation on Nova Scotia Gas Project |
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Speeches planned by the premier of Nova Scotia and his energy minister for later this week have fueled speculation that EnCana Corp.'s long-stalled Deep Panuke natural gas project may be revived.
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Kansas City's Dream - 10,000 Rain Gardens |
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Since mid-2005, Kansas City metropolitan area residents have built 86 rain gardens and counting.
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