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The Price Isn’t Right
Gas Prices Not At Record High — and Proposed Solutions Wouldn’t Lower Them Gasoline prices have become a political hot potato in this election season, but most analysts agree there […]
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Answers about thermal depolymerization
Dear Umbra, What is thermal depolymerization? AnnFreehold, N.J. Dearest Ann, A polymer is a large group of linked molecules. We’re made of polymers such as protein, eat polymers such as […]
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A paddler travels one of India’s great rivers before a dam changes it for good
Except for the occasional palm or banana tree, the Himalayan canyon walls look like those carved by the Salmon River in Idaho: The hillsides are brown and dotted with pine […]
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Elizabeth Grossman reviews The Whale and the Supercomputer by Charles Wohlforth
Out on the ice that forms the shores of the Arctic Ocean, the Iñupiaq whalers of Barrow, Alaska, hauled in their catch, a bowhead whale that weighed more than 100,000 pounds. The entire village turned out to pull the enormous mammal ashore and butcher it. Sleds and snowmobiles were piled with maktak (energy-laden slabs of whale blubber and skin) and fresh bloody meat.
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Manana Kochladze strives to protect Georgia from a BP oil pipeline
The Republic of Georgia, which gained its independence after the breakup of the Soviet Union, may be best known to Westerners as the birthplace of Josef Stalin. But this new […]
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What Are We Gonna Do, Walk?
Rising Gas Prices Don’t Keep Americans Out of Their Cars Enviros hoping that rising gas prices would change Americans’ driving behavior have been bitterly disappointed. Although gas prices have reached […]
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Liquefied Natural Gas Boom Sparks Safety Worries
The surging popularity of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has local communities where LNG terminals are planned worried about safety. Ships carrying five LNG tanks contain as much energy as a […]
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Seas the Day
Enviros Push California to Buy Ocean Areas and Fishing Boats Environmental groups, buoyed by their success in channeling government money to buy large swaths of California coast to protect it […]
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Drilling on a Texas barrier island could mess with sea turtles and other critters
Life’s a beach — and then you die. Photo: NPS. This time of year, a slim strip of Texas beach known as South Padre Island is hopping with bikini-wearing, hard-drinking […]
