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Muck Ado About Something
Russian journalist and environmental muckraker Grigory Pasko was paroled from prison yesterday after serving part of a highly contested term for treason. Pasko became the poster-child for concerns about Russian […]
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Succulent Temptations
In an effort to conserve water, landscapers in Arizona have turned to the wild cacti of West Texas for decoration, creating an unsustainable demand that could imperil some species. According […]
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Umbra on student activism
Dear Umbra, I may be asking the wrong person, but I hope you can help out. I am a student at the University of North Carolina and my group, the […]
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Umbra on mercury in compact fluorescent lights
Dear Umbra, Here in Texas, where it is very hot in the summer (granted, we deserve to be in hell for having produced George Bush), some of us have been […]
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Umbra on turning off fluorescent lights
Dear Umbra, You’d be so proud of us! We just had an hour-long meeting about conservation and environmentalism here in our office. In the course of our discussion, the topic […]
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Up the River
New Year’s Day marked a historic moment in the history of Western water wars — the first time the federal government exercised its right to decline California’s request for more […]
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A Towering Achievement
An Australian power company is planning to build the world’s tallest structure, in the name of a global campaign to encourage renewable energy use. Energy company Environmission plans to construct […]
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Turning Japanese
An Eco-Products exhibition held recently in Tokyo, Japan, attracted more than 100,000 visitors and no shortage of unusual inventions. The big-ticket item was, of course, Toyota’s fuel-cell car, which has […]
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On staying sane in a mad world
A Czech friend of mine sent me an email during the recent NATO summit in Prague as American fighter jets stood by and riot police filled the streets. “Sometimes,” she […]
