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City of Vancouver proclaims country’s first Meatless MondayVancouver has become the first city in Canada to embrace 'Meatless Monday,' encouraging residents to forego meat for one day a week for the sake of the planet and their health. |
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Company Designs Bottle From Great Pacific Garbage Patch DebrisSomewhere in the vicinity of Hawaii, a huge mass of plastic debris floats in the Pacific. And that’s just a fraction of the waste that’s bobbing around out there. Compared to the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” one plastic soap bottle may not seem like much. But if that one bottle is mass produced by soap-maker Method, it could turn out to make a big difference. |
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Human Rights Court Rules in Favor of Community Over Ecuadorian GovernmentIn a case that could have broad implications, the Kichwa community of Sarayaku, Ecuador, won a major battle on July 25, when the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that the Ecuadorian government had violated its rights to communal property and cultural identity. |
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Turkmenistan to plant huge forest in Aral Sea regionTurkmenistan is allocating tens of millions of dollars to plant trees in a region neighbouring the stricken Aral Sea, state newspaper Neutral Turkmenistan said Tuesday. |
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London’s Eco-Friendly Olympic GamesThe whole world has gathered in London for the Summer Olympic Games. It is the third time this city has hosted the games, and the nation is aiming to make it unique as the first "sustainable" Olympics. |
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Seth Shostak: ET is (probably) out there—get readySETI researcher Seth Shostak bets that we will find extraterrestrial life in the next twenty-four years, or he'll buy you a cup of coffee. At TEDxSanJoseCA, he explains why new technologies and the laws of probability make the breakthrough so likely -- and forecasts how the discovery of civilizations far more advanced than ours might affect us here on Earth. |
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Google Unveils Ultrafast Web ServiceGoogle on Thursday unveiled an ultrafast Web service along with an Internet television subscription in the Kansas City area as part of a pilot project to boost broadband speeds. The Google Fiber superfast broadband network will be available starting in September, with one-gigabyte per second speeds -- about 100 times faster than most current Internet subscriptions. |
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Conservationists pledge to double number of tiny buffaloThe World Wide Fund for Nature Philippines (WWF-Philippines) has joined top academic institution Far Eastern University (FEU), alongside well-established environmental groups in Mindoro, with the goal of doubling the wild tamaraw population from 300 to 600 by 2020. |
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Quebecers cut plastic bag use in halfQuebecers cut their plastic bag use by more than half in three years, Environment Minister Pierre Arcand said on Monday. |
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Hope for more effective TB treatmentHopes of a new, more effective therapy for tuberculosis have been raised following the results of early trials. |
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Genetic entrepreneur to compete in Genomics X PrizeA race to unlock genetic clues behind living to 100 is set to begin next year, after a US team announced it will compete for the $10m Genomics X Prize. |
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Buddha tree alive and healthy at age 2,500The 2,500-year-old tree under which Gautama Buddha is believed to have attained enlightenment is alive and healthy, Indian scientists said Thursday. |
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Gene therapy nears approval in EuropeEurope is on the cusp of approving a gene therapy for the first time, in what would be a landmark moment for the field. |
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Green plants reduce street pollution 8 times more than previously believedTrees, bushes and other greenery growing in the concrete-and-glass canyons of cities can reduce levels of two of the most worrisome air pollutants by eight times more than previously believed, a new study has found. |
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Scientists Develop Method to Reduce Farmers’ Use of Nitrogen FertilizerScientist at Michigan State University are putting the finishing touches on a program that would pay farmers to apply less nitrogen fertilizer in a way that doesn't jeopardize yields. |
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‘Air’ Batteries Could Energize EvsResearchers in the UK say they have made a key step in development of a lithium-air battery, a device that promises three to five times as much energy per unit mass as the existing lithium-ion batteries that we use in our consumer devices and electric vehicles. |
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City council votes 13-2 to ban sale, possession of shark finsShark fin soup has been called pricey, extravagant and flavourless. This October, it will become illegal in Calgary. |
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