Tag: environment
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June 19, 2008 10:27 AM EDT --
His father was against it. So was his brother, Florida Governor Jeb Bush. So was he. But yesterday in the Rose Garden, with four-dollar gas at the pump, US President George W. Bush said: . . .
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May 02, 2007 10:05 AM EDT --
They sound like heaven, but more and more of the world is becoming a challenging hell for the world's most beautiful songbirds.
Now, biologists find that the realm of Scarlet Tanagers and Indigo Buntings, . . .
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April 22, 2008 10:29 AM EDT --
Each year, spring has been creeping up a little faster. In the Northeast, it's accelerated about 8 hours earlier each year, since 1982. And while we might revel in the warmer weather and . . .
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May 10, 2007 09:48 AM EDT --
New York Times writer Natalie Angier is a champion for science. She has written about polar bears, cheetahs, lions, tigers and pit vipers. She's written about the science of empathy, altruism, why . . .
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July 03, 2007 11:15 AM EDT --
How thirsty is America for bottled water? Pretty darned thirsty.
Every week of the year we now move a billion bottles of water from ground to gullet in ships and trains and trucks. That's the equivalent . . .
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August 16, 2007 10:52 AM EDT --
It’s been a summer of violent and gut-wrenching crime reports in America. From execution-style shootings in Newark to New Orleans and Oakland and home invasion in the leafy suburbs of Connecticut, . . .
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August 08, 2007 10:50 AM EDT --
It was a quirky story in the US news media, and a national triumph in Moscow. Last Thursday, in the frigid wake of a nuclear powered ice-breaker, Russia sent two mini-submarines 13,000 feet beneath . . .
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August 15, 2007 11:48 AM EDT --
In the storybook, when little Heidi got sick, she went to the countryside to recover -- sunshine and meadows. That's where health, and the healthy life, were: in the tidy suburbs and the rosy-cheeked, . . .
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May 13, 2008 10:48 AM EDT --
Cyclone Nargis may have killed 100,000 in Myanmar's Irriwaddy Delta. Missouri, Oklahoma and GeorgiaUS this year. Many can't help asking if this is global warming's not-so-invisible . . .
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July 22, 2008 11:02 AM EDT --
If you've got a lawn or a neighbor with a lawn, a lawn mower is probably your weekend soundtrack. A small price to pay, along with the $45 billion a year Americans spend on landscaping, to keep . . .
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June 05, 2007 03:49 PM EDT --
For most of his presidency, George W. Bush has famously doubted and dodged on global warming. Now, just in time to shake up allies in Europe, he’s out with a big plan on climate change that would . . .
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June 20, 2007 10:32 AM EDT --
Right across the planet, good fresh water supplies are under pressure. In America's West and Southwest, the combination of drought and booming population growth have made that pressure intense.
As . . .
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November 29, 2007 11:29 AM EST --
Birdwatching is big. A shotgun and bird-stuffing operation in the early 1800’s, it has grown into a recreational sport that is all but mainstream today, bringing millions of Americans to parks and . . .
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July 18, 2007 02:59 PM EDT --
Rivers may be made for swimming, but Americans haven’t done much of that in a long time -- too dirty, too scary.
Akiko Busch was facing milestones and loss and change. She walked down to the nearest . . .
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March 28, 2008 11:20 AM EDT --
Long before modern industry and shiny SUV's, there was global warming.
In a new book, anthropologist Brian Fagan tells us that 1,000 years ago Mother Nature turned up the heat. There were big winners . . .
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November 21, 2007 11:09 AM EST --
Today, doing right by the environment has become a new corporate creed, essential to a company’s public image. But, get inside a company trying to go green and the story gets more complicated. . . .
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December 04, 2007 10:43 AM EST --
From Bali to the Beltway, our energy future may be coming on line right now. Energy and climate bills are on the table in Congress, and a world summit in Bali is convening to hash out the Earth’s . . .
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April 10, 2008 11:02 AM EDT --
It seems like every other day there's a new study that says the planet is heating up, and we're to blame.
But it's hard to really understand how each one of us, as individuals, contributed . . .
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April 25, 2007 08:39 AM EDT --
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said last wekeend he's going to make the Big Apple radically green by 2030.
Today On Point discussed how US cities are helping out on the environment . . .
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