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Sore Like an Eagle
The greatest threat to the bald eagle is no longer pesticides, but development and suburban sprawl, say environmental scientists. The bald eagle has starred in one of the most successful […]
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Going on the Rails on a Crazy Train
Study Find Trains Best Transportation Solution for California Building a high-speed rail system that would connect California’s major cities would be more cost-effective and less environmentally destructive than expanding the […]
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The Big Apple of Our Eye
World Trade Center Reconstruction Will Set New Eco-Friendly Standard Reconstruction of New York City’s World Trade Center area — site of the 2001 terrorist attacks — is set to make […]
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We Love to Fly and It Shows
Britain Mulls Ways to Limit Impact of Aviation Industry With the holidays looming, the airports and skies are fuller than ever — unfortunately for the environment. Air travel is the […]
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The word on relatively green cars and positively green bicycles
Hy-wire act. Photo: DOE. My daughter Maya, who is 9, saw a picture of the General Motors Hy-wire, the company’s super-sleek experimental fuel-cell car, and immediately decided we should have […]
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Bicycles Shanghaied
Shanghai Bans Bicycles from Major Streets Shanghai, China, whose streets once teemed with peddling people, will ban bicycles from most major thoroughfares beginning next year. It’s a dramatic (and, many […]
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NRDC’s new Santa Monica building may be the most eco-friendly in the U.S.
Do you realize we are gathered in what must be the greenest building in the United States?” Natural Resources Defense Council Executive Director Frances Beinecke asked a crowd of well-scrubbed […]
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Next Thing You Know, They’ll Have a Better Human-Rights Record Than the U.S., Too
China to Adopt Fuel-Economy Standards Stricter Than Those in U.S. Intent on reducing its growing dependence on foreign oil, China is set to impose vehicle fuel-economy standards that will be […]
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Ding Dong, the Plant Is Dead
Germany Shutters First N-Plant in Beginning of End of Atomic Industry Germany began its historic phaseout of all atomic energy by shutting down the first of 19 nuclear power plants […]
