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1. E: The Environmental Magazine - The drill's about to drop: in New York, new ways to find oil and gas pose serious environmental threats
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March 1, 2010 -- While climate change has been a driving force in speeding the development of renewable energy sources, it has also given new life to the search for...

2. E: The Environmental Magazine - The eco-schoolhouse that could
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March 1, 2010 -- The "eco-schoolhouse" was built after an arson fire destroyed a portable classroom at Grant Elementary in Columbia, Missouri. It's a 21st century...

3. E: The Environmental Magazine - Behind the greens: economics and energy expert Paul W. MacAvoy: 5 questions of environmental leaders
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March 1, 2010 -- Best remembered for coining the phrase "voodoo economics" during the Reagan administration, economist Paul W. MacAvoy has spent a 30-year career at...

4. E: The Environmental Magazine - Greenscape
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March 1, 2010 -- The company is Greenscape is planning to build the world's "greenest parking facility," a 4,200-stall lot at the Denver International Airport built...

5. E: The Environmental Magazine - Investing in community: a truly diversified portfolio is about more than money
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March 1, 2010 -- When disaster strikes, you cant power your refrigerator with alternative energy mutual funds; you can't fix your broken water filter with U.S....

6. Neglected tropical diseases NEED to be studied
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The 'innovation gap' for neglected tropical diseases is rapidly growing, say Sandeep P. Kishore and colleagues, but research universities in the United States could help close the gap.  ...

7. Martian Glaciers
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Mars is a lot like Earth in many ways. The signs of water are obvious in the deep valleys. Many have speculated about once vast oceans often centered over the northern part of Mars. Where did the water ...

8. Charles Darwin, Earthquake Predictor
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Charles Darwin helped forecast today's magnitude-8.8 earthquake in Chile, which has, at press time, killed more than 200 people, caused extensive damage, and sent a modest-size tsunami around the Pacific. ...

9. Solar Plane Almost Ready for Record Flight
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In Switzerland, two pioneers are coming closer and closer to a flight around the world powered only by solar energy. It doesn't make good business sense, ...

10. Saliva and the Pancreas
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The pancreas is a gland organ in the digestive and endocrine system of vertebrates. It is both an endocrine gland producing several important hormones, including insulin, and somatostatin, as well as an ...

11. Other Life, Other Universes
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Whether life exists elsewhere in our universe is a long standing mystery. But for some scientists, there’s another interesting question: could there be life in a universe significantly different from our ...

12. Confidence in Scientists Dropping as Result of "Climategate"
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Fallout from a loss of public confidence in climate science is affecting other fields of research, a top US academic claimed.  ...

13. Endangered listing eyed for US loggerhead turtles (AP)
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AP - The federal government on Wednesday recommended an endangered-species listing for the loggerhead turtles in U.S. waters, a decision that could lead to tighter restrictions on fishing and other maritime ...

14. Spike in Prius complaints may not be all it seems (AP)
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AP - Reports of sudden acceleration in the Toyota Prius have spiked across the country. But that doesn't mean there's an epidemic of bad gas pedals in the popular hybrid.

15. Feds probe Toyota Prius crash in NYC suburb (AP)
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AP - The crash of a Toyota Prius in New York caught the attention of federal regulators Wednesday after the driver said it accelerated on its own, then lurched down a driveway, across a road and into a ...

16. China and India endorse Copenhagen Climate Accord
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China and India joined almost all other major greenhouse gas emitters Tuesday in signing up to the climate accord struck in Copenhagen, boosting a deal strongly favored by the United States.  ...

17. Gowanus Canal goes Superfund
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... the Environmental Protection Agency. The new designation means that the EPA will now move ahead to clean up this derelict canal and to compel PRP's (principal responsible parties) to perform the cleanup ...

18. Amazon Droughts and Greening
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The sensitivity of Amazon rain forests to dry season droughts is still poorly understood, with reports of enhanced tree mortality and forest fires on one hand, and excessive forest greening on the other. ...

19. New Report Offers Little Hope for International Climate Agreement
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It's the big pink elephant in the room that few others wish to acknowledge, but a central theme in a new report by former climate negotiator Nigel Purvis: An international climate change treaty isn't likely ...

20. EPA defends plan to regulate Greenhouse gas emissions
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The Environmental Protection Agency chief fought back on Monday against Senate attempts to challenge the agency's authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, saying delaying action would be bad for ...

21. Impact of Ancient Indonesian Volcanic Eruption
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The Toba super eruption occurred between 69,000 and 77,000 years ago at Lake Toba (present day Indonesia), and it is recognized as one of Earth's largest known eruptions. The related catastrophe theory ...

22. Neglected tropical diseases NEED to be studied
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The 'innovation gap' for neglected tropical diseases is rapidly growing, say Sandeep P. Kishore and colleagues, but research universities in the United States could help close the gap.  ...

23. World's top scientists to review climate panel (AP)
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AP - At a tumultuous time in U.N.-led climate negotiations, one of the world's most credible scientific groups agreed Wednesday to plug the recent cracks in the authoritative reports of the United Nations' ...

24. Feds probe Toyota Prius crash in NYC suburb (AP)
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AP - The crash of a Toyota Prius in New York caught the attention of federal regulators Wednesday after the driver said it accelerated on its own, then lurched down a driveway, across a road and into a ...

25. Endangered listing eyed for US loggerhead turtles (AP)
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AP - The federal government has recommended an endangered-species listing for loggerhead turtles in U.S. waters, a decision that could have big implications for the fishing industry.

26. Independent body to review controversial climate panel (AFP)
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AFP - A respected international scientific body will review the UN's Nobel prize-winning climate panel, under fire for errors in a key report on global warming, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday.

27. Dutch capital to be put on trial over ICoast waste dump (AFP)
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AFP - The city of Amsterdam is to be prosecuted over the dumping of toxic waste by a ship in Ivory Coast in 2006, the Supreme Court has ruled in a decision made available Wednesday.

28. S.Korea, Turkey sign deal on nuclear power plant (AFP)
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AFP - The state power companies of South Korea and Turkey signed a preliminary deal here Wednesday aimed at building a nuclear power plant in northern Turkey.

29. Solar power could provide 10% of US energy: report (AFP)
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AFP - The United States could source 10 percent of its electricity from solar power by 2030, a report said Tuesday, winning support from a US lawmaker who wants to boost the number of US solar panels. ...

30. US probes runaway Toyota Prius (AFP)
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AFP - US investigators launched a probe Tuesday into a runaway Toyota Prius in California, a high-profile case that threatens to undermine the Japanese automaker's effort to repair its battered image. ...