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37 min ago | Voice of America

In Hong Kong, Beef Over Sammy Kitchen's 3D Cow

And that is not the only way this restaurant stands out in a neighborhood clustered with Cantonese fare.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Dining, Beef, Meat, Science

4 hrs ago | Salon

From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science?

The potent combination of our powerful intelligence with our massive reality denial has led to a dangerous world.

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Related Topix: Global Warming, Activism, Science, Inventions, Science / Technology, Agriculture

8 hrs ago | Salon

Is the Environmental Defense Fund ruining environmentalism?

The battle over hydraulic fracking of oil and natural gas has pitted land owners against each other.

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Related Topix: Pennsylvania, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Boat Disaster

11 hrs ago | I-Newswire.com

Keeping It Environment-friendly! Six Easy Suggestion For Cleaner Energy Use

Eco-friendly energy has actually become a a lot more popular concept of late A number of people concur that green energy transcends due to the fact that it helps our world, while saving cash.

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Related Topix: Science, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, TV, Electronics, Solar Energy

16 hrs ago | Cornish Guardian

'Act now on bird deaths' says St Ives MP Andrew George

The Government should crackdown on ships dumping a chemical into the sea which has killed thousands of seabirds off the Westcountry coast, an MP has said.

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Related Topix: Science

Fri May 24, 2013

Sunherald.com

Grand Bay NERR's new facility, kayak launch will help visitors experience nature

The Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve hosted a tour to educate other members of the Coastal Nature Destinations Group about different nature sites across South Mississippi.

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Related Topix: Science

This is Lincolnshire

Water quality testing begins at Lincolnshire beaches

Environment Agency experts will spend the next five months taking water samples from all nine bathing beaches in Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire to check that they meet European bacteriological water quality standards.

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Related Topix: Science, Lincolnshire County, England, United Kingdom, World News,

CBC News

Canadian forecasters warn of active hurricane season

High winds from Hurricane Igor topple trees in St. John's in 2010. The Canadian Hurricane Centre said Friday that regardless of the number of hurricanes forecast for 2013, expected to be an "active" season, it responds to four or five tropical cyclone events each year.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, Weather, Hurricane, Hurricane Igor, Natural Disasters, Science

Inside Bay Area

From Laos to Richmond, local man honored by White House for environmental activist

When Lipo Chanthanasak was honored last month by the White House for his environmental justice work, he felt he wasn't alone.

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Related Topix: Recreational Vehicle, Chevron, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Science

New Media Journal

House By-Passes Obama on Keystone XL

The House voted 241-175 -- largely along party lines -- to pass legislation that would speed up the approval process for the Keystone XL pipeline, despite threats of a veto by President Barack Obama.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Lee Terry, Fred Upton, Republican, US House of Representatives, Barack Obama, Science, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

People's Daily Online

President Xi pledges not to sacrifice environment

President Xi Jinping on Friday pledged that China will not sacrifice the environment for temporary economic growth.

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Related Topix: Science, Xi Jinping

The Daily Star

Russia plans urgent evacuation of Arctic post as ice melts

In this undated image released by the Marine Ice Automobile Expedition, two trucks used by the expedition members cross the North Pole.

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Related Topix: Science, Vladimir Putin

Patch.com

EPA Adds Attleboro Site to Superfund LIst

Federal officials have decided to spend the money needed to clean an Attleboro property contaminated with chemicals through decades of pollution by a previously existing chrome-plating plant.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, Attleboro, MA, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Science

Thu May 23, 2013

CBC News

Trudeau raises environmental questions over pipeline

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says a proposed west-east pipeline project will not go forward unless it addresses key environmental concerns.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas, TransCanada, Natural Gas, Canada, North America, World News, Science,

KBND-AM Bend

Chicken fight: Study backs farmer in pollution battle with EPA

West Virginia poultry farmer Lois Alt didn't chicken out when the Environmental Protection Agency threatened her with fines of $40,000 per day, and even though the federal regulators eventually backed off, she's taking them on in a legal case that could benefit thousands of small farmers.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Science, Agriculture

R & D

Bacterium from Arctic offers clues about life on Mars

The temperature in the permafrost on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian high Arctic is nearly as cold as that of the surface of Mars.

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Related Topix: Science

Larvatus Prodeo

Oklahoma tornado and climate change

In the US tornado alley warm moist air flows north from the Gulf of Mexico in the lower atmosphere and becomes unstable.

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Related Topix: Tornado, Natural Disasters, Science

SFGate

Gov. Brown continues climate change crusade

Gov. Jerry Brown is set to continue his climate change charge, joining scientists releasing a 20-page call to action on environmental problems including pollution, extinctions and population growth.

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Related Topix: US Governors, Jerry Brown, Science, Stanford University

GPB.org

Obama Group's Climate Push Puts President Under Scrutiny

President Obama speaks at Ellicott Dredges in Baltimore on May 17. The trip followed a visit by the company's president to Capitol Hill to testify in support of the Keystone XL pipeline.

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Related Topix: 2012 Presidential Election, US Politics, US News, Twitter, Global Warming, Science, John Boehner, Republican, US House of Representatives

The Star Online

In China, food scares put Mao's self-sufficiency goal at risk

The discovery of dangerous levels of toxic cadmium in rice sold in the southern city of Guangzhou, the latest in a series of food scandals, has piled more pressure on China to clean up its food chain - possibly at the expense of Mao Zedong's cherished goal of self-sufficiency. A worker displays a handful of rice at a market in Hefei, Anhui province ... (more)

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Related Topix: World News, China, Reuters, Science, Agriculture