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Honeybee Die-Off Threatens Food Supply (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 06:01:10
| Unless someone or something stops it soon, the mysterious killer that is wiping out many of the nation's honeybees could have a devastating effect on America's dinner plate, perhaps even reducing us to a glorified bread-and-water diet. |
Religious Leaders Tour Kentucky Coal Mining Sites, Praying for End to Mountaintop Removal (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 06:01:10
| Amid a backdrop of bulldozers, warning sirens and mine blasts, demonstrators bowed their heads and prayed for the land, the water and mostly for an end to the practice of removing mountaintops to extract coal. |
Growth in Wild Animal Trade Worries Brazil (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 06:01:10
| Poaching and trafficking in wild animals such as monkeys and parrots is reaching critical proportions in Brazil, home of more animal species than any other country, a non-profit group said Wednesday. |
Senate Panel OKs Bill To Increase Green U.S. Power (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 06:01:10
| The U.S. Senate may vote later this month on an energy bill that would by 2020 require that 15 percent of U.S. electricity be produced by renewable sources such as wind and solar. |
Tribes, Fishermen Sue PacifiCorp over Klamath Dams (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 06:01:11
| Environmentalists, commercial fishermen and Native American tribes sued Berkshire Hathaway Inc. subsidiary PacifiCorp in San Francisco Wednesday, claiming that two of its dams on the Klamath River are killing salmon and causing human health hazards.
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WHO Says Fighting Global Warming a Win-Win To Prevent Health Problems, Save Money (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 06:01:11
| Countries that start battling global warming now won't have to wait generations to see the rewards: burning cleaner fuels can yield immediate health benefits that save lives and money, world health experts say. |
Ethanol Bill Heads to Full Senate, Prompts Debate over Coal as Motor Fuel (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 06:01:11
| Senators moved ahead Wednesday on legislation to replace one-quarter of the nation's gasoline with ethanol and set a goal of cutting gasoline consumption nearly in half by 2030. |
U.S. Environment Satellites in Jeopardy, Scientists Say (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 06:01:11
| Environmental satellites that monitor global warming are in jeopardy because of cost cuts, as military and human spaceflight programs get larger shares of the U.S. budget, a science policy expert said Wednesday. |
Jeans Firms Pollute Mexican City with Blue Dye (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 05-03-2007 at 06:01:11
| Jeans factories have given jobs to thousands in the city of Tehuacan, the heartland of Mexico's denim industry, but they are pumping blue chemicals into rivers used to irrigate corn fields downstream. |
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