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At Worst, Oil Spewed Already Could Fill 102 Gyms
Drip by drip, day by day, the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico is adding up to mind-boggling numbers. Using worst case scenarios calculated by scientists, a month's worth of leaking oil could fill enough gallon milk jugs to stretch more than 11,300 miles. That's more than the distance from New York to Buenos Aires, Argentina, and back...
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Hippopotamus on menu at Beijing zoo
After watching the beasts in their cages, diners at the zoo's restaurant can gnaw on the webbed toes of a hippopotamus, chew a kangaroo tail, nibble a deer's penis or slurp down a bowl of ant soup. The sale of these dishes has caused outrage since it was reported earlier this week.
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EPA Seeks Help Hunting Down Environmental Fugitives
Did you think that the Clean Air Act applied only to companies? Think again. Certain violations of the Clean Air Act are considered criminal violations, and individuals may be subject to prosecution.
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Top 10 countries investing in clean energy
The clean energy economy is emerging as one of the great global economic and environmental opportunities of the 21st century. In a recent report, The Pew Charitable Trusts, an American nonprofit organization, reports which are the world’s leaders in the clean energy industry, over the past four years.
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WTFungus: Mystery Syndrome Is Wiping Out America's Bats!
The scenario sounds like a science fiction plot. A deadly disease appears mysteriously in the New York countryside in 2006 and spreads, infecting thousands, then hundreds of thousands, making a white fungus grow on the body of whatever gets it…then kills them.
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5 Oil Disasters That Suck More Than The Gulf Oil Spill view!
Since the Gulf Spill, more than 3.5 million gallons of oil have leaked from the well. Though the scale of this tragedy d...
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4 Energy Technologies That Could Replace Oil
New large-scale projects are revolutionizing the U.S. energy sector, using sunlight, wind, waves and even trash, rather than oil, coal or nuclear power.
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Gulf Oil Spill a "Dead Zone in the Making"?
Other than a few orange tubes encircling a sandbar southwest of Louisiana's Chandeleur Islands, there's no sign anything's amiss.
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River Jesus Was Baptized In So Polluted It Could Die By 2011
The once mighty Jordan River, where Christians believe Jesus was baptised, is now little more than a polluted stream that could die next year unless the decay is halted, environmentalists said on Monday.
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