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Tomb Aiders
Taiwan freeway officials help butterflies find their way Bracing for the migratory peak of millions of purple milkweed butterflies, officials in Taiwan are closing one lane of a major highway, […]
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Yellowstone grizzlies to be delisted, Harry Potter goes greener, and more
Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: The Goracle Hogwarts and All You’ll Be Fine, Yogi You Mean Bombing Doesn’t Help? Not In My Back Yardarm Everything’s […]
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Unseamly Behavior
Federal judge blocks West Virginia coal-mining permits Foes of mountaintop-removal mining got a break late Friday when a federal judge blocked four permits for mines in West Virginia. The permits, […]
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You’ll Be Fine, Yogi
Yellowstone-area grizzly bears lose Endangered Species Act protection The U.S. Interior Department will remove Yellowstone-area grizzlies from Endangered Species Act protection, putting management of bears that live outside the park […]
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Major reductions and a paradigm shift
Yes, a major reduction in fishing subsidies (currently in the tens of billions a year), the establishment of property rights over the ocean commons, a massive reduction in overall catches, and, as this amazing article in National Geographic makes clear, we need an entirely new way of thinking about the ocean. That is, we need a paradigm shift with respect to how we view marine ecosystems. Read the article and let the journey begin ...
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Readers write in about lucky bastards, “clean coal,” disparaging veggie burgers, and more
Re: Somewhere, Stalin Is Chuckling Dear Editor: I am sorely disappointed and disgusted by Grist’s use of “humor” to report the mine explosion in Siberia. Yes, coal is dirty […]
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Hogwarts and All
The seventh — and, alas, final — Harry Potter book goes green Is Draco Malfoy green with envy, or is it just the paper he’s printed on? With only 121 […]
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You Mean Bombing Doesn’t Help?
Four years of war has not improved Iraq’s environment After four years of U.S.-led war and the two Saddam-ized decades preceding it, Iraq’s water, land, and air are in rough […]
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The Goracle
Gore gets a warm welcome on Capitol Hill, and a few heated exchanges Al Gore got a superstar reception in Congress yesterday when he made the case for sweeping federal […]
