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As gas prices go up and green thinking expands, it seems electric bikes are seeing a huge surge in popularity. Sales in the US nearly doubled last year, reaching 10,000 in 2007. And Amazon reported a 6,000% increase this summer from last year. Seems that while many bikes are priced between $1,500 to $2,500, it is worth it to people to invest in one (more) |
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When you think of solar power, you think of the sun’s rays providing the source for the power. Well the US Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory is changing that concept by providing a method of harvesting the sun’s energy even after the sun has set.
The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has announced that a team of researchers h (more) |
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The Gwangju Seobu Police Station is investigating a case involving thousands of missing trees. A 43-year-old woman Kim reported that 4,000 seedlings of Chinoanthus retusa, crape myrtle, yulan and others planted at her farm had gone missing. The lost items were worth around 1.8 billion won.
Kim said she had bought the seedlings 10 years ago. She (more) |
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Corn prices are on their way down and starting to stabilize, and tight-budgeted corn ethanol plants are starting let the air out of their lungs a little. With no rain for crops and a whole lot to skittish speculators, corn prices skyrocketed the last few months, leaving ethanol plants to struggle with making any sort of profit or getting any sort o (more) |
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America's landmark law protecting endangered species is under attack and we need your help.
Late yesterday, news broke that the Bush administration has drafted proposed new rules to dramatically weaken the Endangered Species Act.
We need your help to fight back. Add your voice to the chorus of opposition to this outrageous proposal.
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Two decades ago, "saving the gorillas" became a cause celebre when researchers announced that western lowland gorilla populations in the Congo had dwindled to critically endangered numbers. Our primate relatives were threatened by a widespread outbreak of the Ebola virus, as well as poachers who hunted the animals for bushmeat.
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The largest full-service airline in Canada has extended a popular carbon offset initiative to business clients. Air Canada’s program will be operated in conjunction with Zerofootprint, a carbon management firm that already has helped individual passengers on the carrier to voluntarily offset 9,417 tons of carbon.
Up to now, passenger offsets o (more) |
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The 3rd European Science Open Forum (ESOF 2008), which concluded recently in Barcelona, Spain, has witnessed yet another novel way of communicating science using scientoons, an innovative tool combining science and cartoons together. It does not matter who you are, in most cases people find it difficult and boring especially when it comes to scie (more) |
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A beetle the size of a grain of rice has killed more than a million acres of trees in the Rockies. The beetle could ultimately lead to many environmental problems. Hari Sreenivassan reports |
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In every job there are certain mistakes you just CAN’T make. When it comes to being a famous chef that mistake would be TELLING YOUR READERS TO EAT POISON!!! I’m vegan, right? I mean I eat a lot of frigin greens, so I’m not trying to start some sort of wide-spread salad panic, but just be careful where you get your info from.
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Carlos_Moreno 
PabloPicasso 
linda85 
mireia 
Pradeep K. Srivastava 
In every job there are certain mistakes you just CAN’T make. When it comes to being a famous chef that mistake would be TELLING YOUR READERS TO EAT POISON!!! I’m vegan, right? I mean I eat a lot of frigin greens, so I’m not trying to start some sort of wide-spread salad panic, but just be careful where you get your info from.
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