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Earth Day Information Center Cites Environmental ProgressAlthough many environmental organizations will strain to find the black lining in the silver cloud of environmental progress on the occasion of Earth Day, the Earth Day Information Center, a project of The National Center for Public Policy Research, is pleased to note environmental progress in many areas. Earth Day is Saturday, April 22. |
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Trump Sets Up Trump State ParkDonald Trump is donating 436 bucolic acres in New York City's northern suburbs for a new state park that will be named for -- you guessed it -- Donald Trump. |
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Great American Cleanup goal: Involve 2.5 million volunteersIn 2006, the Great American Cleanup is expected to involve close to an estimated 2.5 million people volunteering more than 8 million hours to clean, beautify and improve 16,000 communities during 30,000 events from coast to coast in all 50 states. |
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Greens happy as EU tightens GMO testingIn a move hailed by environmentalists, the European Commission has agreed to tighten rules on testing genetically-modified foodstuffs before they can go on EU shelves. |
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Tanzania banning plastic bags ‘to protect the environment’Thin plastic bags are to be banned in Tanzania as part of measures to protect the environment. |
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UCB Opens Nation’s First Organic College KitchenMixed baby greens dressed in Sesame Goddess vinaigrette and soy bacon bits drenched in Miso Ginger dressing paved the way for the nation's first ever certified organic kitchen on an American college campus at UC Berkeley's Crossroads dining commons on Thursday. |
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Green explosive is a friend of the EarthA new type of explosive may make blowing things up a little more environmentally friendly, according to a new study. |
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Michigan Officials Seek Tough Clearing RulesTighter restrictions should be imposed on clearing vegetation from Great Lakes shorelines because it alters water chemistry and damages fish habitat, state regulators said. |
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China province may close down industrial pollutersThe Chinese province of Hunan, home to China's largest zinc smelter, is considering closing heavy industrial plants that pollute, a senior government official said on Monday. |
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Guernsey receives first Ramsar designationGuernsey, in the Channel Islands, is celebrating the designation of its first Ramsar site, under the UN Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, otherwise known as the Ramsar Convention. |
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Reproducing Amazon Soils Could Boost Fertility And Scrub CarbonThe search for El Dorado in the Amazonian rainforest might not have yielded pots of gold, but it has led to unearthing a different type of gold mine: some of the globe's richest soil that can transform poor soil into highly fertile ground. |
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Seattle’s Waterfront Reshaped by New Sculpture ParkArtists and city planners are reshaping the city's largest undeveloped downtown water front -- a toxic vacant lot -- into a sculpture park, museum and environmental restoration project that officials hope will become a new landmark alongside the Space Needle and Pike Place Market. |
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New water bottle makes appearance in Boca Publix storesA new environment-friendly water bottle has recently made an appearance on Publix store shelves throughout Boca Raton. |
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China’s pollution galvanises peasants to actionChina: Mrs Song never had much interest in politics but when factory pollution began poisoning well water and killing crops, the young mother got angry. |
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Environmental news headlines
- California orders hike in number of super clean cars
- Fungi Discovered In The Amazon Will Eat Your Plastic
- Leatherback sea turtles granted massive protected area along U.S. west coast
- Swedish Cities Close to Building a Bicycle Superhighway
- Indonesia to conserve half of Borneo region
- Keystone oil sands pipeline rejected, for now
- Levi’s drops Asia Pulp & Paper due to its link to deforestation in Indonesia
- No rhinos poached in Nepal last year
- Singapore supermarket to stop selling shark fin
- European Carbon Regulation for Airlines Takes Off
- Saving the Amazon: Winning the war on deforestation
- The biggest new species discoveries in 2011
- Southern California whale census yields record number
- Electricity Sparks New Life Into Indonesia’s Coral Reefs
- US rolls out historic mercury limits for power plants
- 100,000 Signatures Overcome Coca-Cola in National Park Bottle-Ban Debate
- Solar’s Best Quarter Ever
- Mexico closes huge rubbish dump
- Victory! Facebook ‘friends’ renewable energy
- US Coal Plant Pollution Down
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