Environment
- The Arctic's Warming Islands
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The Arctic's Warming Islands ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 2 2013 - 12:07pm
- Approaching Environmentalism In Africa
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Much like in Frank Herbert’s "Dune", a science-fiction epic about characters attempting to rule a planet torn apart by conflict, the issue of balancing desires for resources, and their impact on people, faces much of Africa today. The planet t ...
Article - Omar Sow - May 29 2013 - 4:09pm
- New Arctic- New Discoveries
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New Arctic- New Discoveries The world is warming, but the Arctic is warming fastest. The Arctic of today is not the Arctic which 18th or 19th century explorers knew. Where ships were once likely to be crushed in heavy ice there is now often no ice in su ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - May 30 2013 - 12:49pm
- Fertilization Effect: Elevated Carbon Dioxide Has Made Arid Regions Greener
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If you live in an arid region, you know keeping it green is an environmentally stressful activity. But some arid regions have been getting greener on their own and scientists have long suspected that a flourishing of green foliage around the globe, observ ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 1 2013 - 12:08pm
- Serial Blind-Spot For Organic Advocates
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Article - Steve Savage - Jun 13 2013 - 10:54pm
- Marijuana Farm Rampant Pesticides Threaten Fishers In The Southern Sierra Nevada
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Rat poison used for marijuana fields is killing fishers in the southern Sierra Nevada, according to a new paper. ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2013 - 9:32am
- Hunting Success Follows Conservation Success
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There was a period of time when hunters were the greatest conservationists. Think President Teddy Roosevelt, who evangelized national parks and setting aside wilderness for the public. Later, environmentalism became an occupation for urbanites and they di ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2013 - 4:39pm
- Reducing The Impact Of Agriculture On Climate Change
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While America has dramatically dematerialized its environmental footprint in recent decades, producing far more food on far less land than 30 years ago, that's not true for the rest of the world. Heavy financial incentives in places like Europe- whi ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 16 2013 - 10:23am
- 10 Ways That We Already Reduce Food Waste (6 To 10)
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Food waste is a big problem, particularly in the developing world, but also in the rich world. I have seen quite a bit written recently about how one of the best ways to improve the sustainability and lower the footprint of food production would be to r ...
Article - Steve Savage - Jul 23 2013 - 4:49pm
- Canadian Boreal: Conservation Of The World's Last Great Forest
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The Canadian boreal forest, stretching from the Yukon in the west to Newfoundland and Labrador in the east, remains one of the world's great natural treasures. The ecologically diverse region contains the largest blocks of intact forest and wetlands ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 28 2013 - 1:09pm
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