Wednesday,
November
19
, 2008
10
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President-elect Barack Obama is beginning to create his cabinet and assess roles within the upcoming administration.
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August 5th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Just days before the Olympic games begin, a haze still stretches across Beijing. The air pollution in China is a powerful reminder of the consequences of China’s recent rapid economic …
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:51 pm
This weekend, nearly every community in America stages a fireworks display. So is there a cumulative effect on the environment from the chemicals exploded into our atmosphere?
It’s more of …
June 27th, 2008 at 10:36 am
In April, two lions died in the Mara Reserve on the border of Kenya and Tanzania shortly after eating contaminated hippo meat. According to an annotated summary in the Mara …
June 26th, 2008 at 10:41 am
The Supreme Court issued two highly anticipated decisions Wednesday, outlawing executions of people convicted of raping a child and slashing the $2.5 billion punitive damages award in the 1989 Exxon …
May 15th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Add another risk factor to the litany of health problems associated with fossil fuel emissions: blood clots.
April 29th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Even though the Meadowlands area of Northern New Jersey has had extensive environmental cleanup, a new bird study shows that many species still live with harmful levels of contaminants. …
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:17 pm
If the present era of human civilization is seen in terms of its defining technologies and resources, humans are now living in the “oil age.” In numbers: the world currently uses roughly 75-80 million barrels of crude oil per day. How is such a massive need met, here and abroad, year after year? Explore EXTREME OIL’s guide to the science behind oil production. GO
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April 2nd, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Andrew C. Revkin of the New York Times “Dot Earth” blog recently highlighted a talk by MIT chemist Daniel G. Nocera at the Aspen Environment Forum on March 26. …
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Wednesday,
November
19
, 2008
07
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Just two days after the judge declared the trial of three men suspected of involvement in Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya's murder would be open to...
Wednesday,
November
19
, 2008
06
:42
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Jeff Seelbach
Juan Evo Morales Ayma, President of Bolivia, spoke in New York on Tuesday as part of the Columbia University World Leaders Forum. Morales, the...
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