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California orders hike in number of super clean cars Globe and Mail, 2 days, 11 hours, 31 minutes ago California, long a national leader in cutting auto pollution, pushed the envelope further Friday as state regulators approved rules to cut greenhouse gas emissions from cars and put significantly more pollution-free vehicles on the road in coming years.
Fungi Discovered In The Amazon Will Eat Your Plastic Fast Co Exist, 4 days, 12 hours, 31 minutes ago The Amazon is home to more species than almost anywhere else on earth. One of them, carried home recently by a group from Yale University, appears to be quite happy eating plastic in airless landfills.
A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris’ Poorest Good Magazine, 5 days, 11 hours, 20 minutes ago Just as France was being chastised for excessive national borrowing with a sovereign debt downgrade, thousands of lucky French people had their financial obligations forgiven after the country's oldest bank decided to simply wipe their slate clean.
Gates donates $750 million to fight AIDS, TB and malaria CNN, 1 week, 23 hours, 11 minutes ago The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will inject $750 million into the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates announced Thursday at the World Economic Forum.
The Cleanweb Takes Off Huffington Post, 1 week, 1 day, 14 hours, 56 minutes ago This past weekend in New York, a group of high tech companies, venture investors, hackers, college students held the second Cleanweb Hackathon -- a gathering where software developers and serial entrepreneurs, fueled by coffee and burritos -- or similar fare -- stay up one, two or more nights writing code for apps that just may change the world.
Leatherback sea turtles granted massive protected area along U.S. west coast MongaBay, 1 week, 3 days, 13 hours, 2 minutes ago The U.S. federal government has designated 108,556 square kilometers (41,914 square miles) as critical habitat for the leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), the largest of the world's marine turtles and one of the most endangered.
Stem cell retinal implants safe BBC, 1 week, 4 days, 41 minutes ago Early results from the world's first human trial using embryonic stem cells to treat diseases of the eye suggest the method is safe, say researchers.
Swedish Cities Close to Building a Bicycle Superhighway Triple Pundit, 1 week, 6 days, 28 minutes ago With all the handwringing over aging infrastructure, rising energy costs, high speed rail and other public transportation projects that are spiraling in costs, cities and towns could look at solutions that can improve mobility and do not the bust the budget: bicycles and bicycle paths.
Indonesia to conserve half of Borneo region AFP, 2 weeks, 10 hours, 8 minutes ago Indonesia's forestry ministry said Thursday it would conserve nearly half its share of Borneo island, which is covered with dense rainforest, so as to meet a presidential pledge to reduce gas emissions.
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