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Groups will sue over protections for giant spitting worm
No Halloween would be complete without an update on the Palouse earthworm, which can grow up to three feet long, spits on predators, and smells like flowers — even when […]
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Sierra magazine names top 10 green colleges
Perhaps inspired by yours truly, Sierra magazine has named America’s top 10 “coolest” green schools — from 850-student Warren Wilson College in North Carolina to the University of California, which […]
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Largest Iraqi dam on verge of collapse, say U.S. officials
The largest dam in Iraq “is judged to have an unacceptable annual failure probability,” according to assessments by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In other words, the “most dangerous […]
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Pediatricians warn climate-change health effects worse for kids
Just in time for Halloween, there’s yet another danger to children for frazzled parents to fret about. For those of you keeping track at home, dangers include strangers, tainted candy, […]
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U.S. Supreme Court to hear appeal of Exxon Valdez damage award
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed this week to hear ExxonMobil’s appeal of the $2.5 billion in damages it was ordered to pay for the disastrous 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. […]
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Russia’s environmental movement rocked by serious mommy issues
You thought there was dissent inside the U.S. environmental movement? Welcome to Russia, where last summer a band of 20 protestors outside a nuclear reprocessing plant was attacked by masked […]
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U.S. states face water shortages
The catastrophic California wildfires got all the press, but it’s worth paying attention to an equally intimidating but slower-moving threat: water shortages. From Georgia to Massachusetts, Florida to New York, […]
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Vicious attack ends up undermining Russian environmental movement
A vicious attack on anti-nuclear protesters in Russia this summer has had the unexpected outcome of undermining the country’s environmental movement, after the son of a high-profile green leader confessed […]
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Nearly one-third of world’s primates at risk of extinction, report says
About 29 percent of the world’s 394 primate species are at risk of extinction, according to a report by the World Conservation Union. Threats to primates include hunting for primate […]
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