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Costa Rica leads 'Happy Planet Index'

Costa Rica tops the "Happy Planet Index," a ranking of ecological efficiency among the world's nations, survey officials say.

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Related Topix: Costa Rica, Central America, World News, Science

Fri Jul 03, 2009

The Daily Democrat

Native pollination specialist joins UCD entomology dept.

Native pollinator specialist Neal Williams, former member of the faculty at Bryn Mawr College and a researcher closely linked with the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr.

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Related Topix: Entomology, Science, UC Davis, Apiculture, Bryn Mawr College, Agriculture

Thu Jul 02, 2009

RedOrbit

Plants' Internal Clock May Improve Climate- Change Models

The ability of plants to tell the time, a mechanism common to all living beings, enables them to survive, grow and reproduce.

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Related Topix: Science

PR-inside.com

Intertek to support development of new a green citya - Tianjin Eco-City, China

The Eco-City is cooperative project between the Peoplea s Republic of China and the Republic of Singapore to construct a new environmentally-friendly city near Tianjin, China.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, Southeast Asia, Singapore, Science, Architectural Design, Arts

Wed Jul 01, 2009

Clover Herald

Washington state farmers sue to stop feedlot plan

A group of Washington state farmers have joined two environmental groups in filing a lawsuit to block a proposed feedlot from using a well that is exempt from requiring state permits to water up to 30,000 cattle.

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Related Topix: Eltopia, WA, Science, Home Gardening, Home, Agriculture, Five Corners, WA, Thurston County, WA

Tue Jun 30, 2009

The Meredith News

Meredith learns to fight off alien invaders

As summer progresses and plants get bigger, the Meredith Conservation Commission is taking steps to help stop the spread of invasive, non-native plants - and no, they're not talking about milfoil.

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Related Topix: Meredith, NH, Center Harbor, NH, Entomology, Science, Agriculture

Tass

Russians say ecology worrisome, but Western military threat, worse

The people of nearly all countries are unhappy about the condition of the environment to a certain extent.

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Related Topix: World News, Russia, Asia, Science,

Mon Jun 29, 2009

Hickory Daily Record

Scott Hollifield: Python project bound to go Horribly Wrong

As the crow flies - or more appropriately as the snake slithers - the Savannah River Ecology Lab in South Carolina is roughly 200 miles from my house.

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Related Topix: Science

Sun Jun 28, 2009

Green Left Weekly

Cuba's green revolutionCOMMENT & ANALYSIS, 29 June 2009 The...

The collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s was the trigger for ending the unsustainable, industrial agriculture that Cuba had practised for decades.

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Related Topix: Cuba, World News, Central America, Agriculture, Science,

Ellesmere Port Standard

Priest honoured for ecology service

Lancaster scientist Canon Professor John Rodwell has been awarded the 2009 President's Medal by the Institute for Ecology and Environmental Management.

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Related Topix: Science

Asbury Park Press Online

Stewards of Pinelands cite 30 years of achievement

Three decades have passed since then-Gov. Brendan T. Byrne accomplished what many thought impossible.

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Related Topix: Pine Barrens (Pinelands), NJ, Science, Barnegat, NJ

Sat Jun 27, 2009

KELO-TV Sioux Falls

Cap & Trade Incoherence

Posted by: Ken Blanchard - 06/27/2009 12:52 AM The Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act passed the House today 219 to 212 .

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Related Topix: US News, Science, Global Warming, Alternative Energy, Science / Technology, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy

Fri Jun 26, 2009

Customer Interaction Solutions

HP Sets Sail with the Plastiki

HP today announced it will be the official technology provider for the upcoming Plastiki expedition led by adventurer and environmental storyteller David de Rothschild and his organization Adventure Ecology.

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Related Topix: Laptops/Notebooks, Science, San Francisco, CA, Australia, World News, Marketing

Thu Jun 25, 2009

Sierra Sun

Study: Southwest temps could rise 4 to 10 degrees by 2090

With Lake Tahoe temperatures up by a 2-degree average since 1939, scientists are studying how warmer weather could affect the lake's environment and ecology.

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Related Topix: Weather, Science, Natural Disasters, Drought

Scientific American

New Yangtze dam may be death sentence for rare fish

Rare fish squeezed by China's decades of frantic dam-building could be pushed over the brink into extinction if a hydropower project planned for a protected stretch of the Yangtze river goes ahead, experts say.

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Related Topix: Science

Wed Jun 24, 2009

Sunherald.com

Burmese pythons slithering their way north?

One by one, seven slithering Burmese pythons were dumped into a snake pit surrounded by 400 feet of reinforced fence at the Savannah River Ecology Lab in South Carolina.

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Related Topix: Science

Tue Jun 23, 2009

KNDO-TV

News Plans To Restore and Improve Yakima River Basin

YAKIMA, Wash.- After months of waiting, there's finally some action on creating more water storage for the Yakima River Basin.

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Related Topix: Yakima Metro, Yakima, WA, Science, Marketing

The Daily Democrat

Sagebrush rebellion: UCD studies plant communication

"To thine own self be true" may take on a new meaning -- not with people or animal behavior but with plant behavior.

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Related Topix: Entomology, Science

People's Daily Online

Law to protect islands' ecology

Lawmakers yesterday started discussions on a draft law to step up ecology and environment of the country's offshore islands.

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Related Topix: Science, World News, Asia, China,

Mon Jun 22, 2009

Daily Mail

The blues are back: Butterfly species reborn 30 years after ‘extinction’

The blues are back: Butterfly species reborn 30 years after 'extinction' By David Derbyshire Last updated at 9:01 AM on 16th June 2009 Thirty years ago it was officially declared extinct in Britain.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science

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