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Posted by on in Beauty and Fashion
Here is an article posted by Natural Cosmetic News: Natural Cosmetic & Personal Care News & Articles Posted by Craig Payne on Aug 24th, 2010 http://www.naturalcosmeticnews.com/focus/health-beauty-products-embrace-sustainable-packaging/ Cosmetic companies have long been burdened with the...
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Posted by on in Oil Spill
“Greedy Lying Bastards” is a new feature length documentary, scheduled to be released in 2012, investigating the role the oil industry plays the world over  in all facets of people’s lives  from politics and economics to the environment. Filmmaker Craig Rosebraugh traveled the globe includ...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
  WASHINGTON — A prominent physicist and skeptic of global warming spent two years trying to find out if mainstream climate scientists were wrong. In the end, he determined they were right: Temperatures really are rising rapidly.   One of the most prominent global warming skeptics is...
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Posted by on in Oil Spill
Scientists investigating a plague of 580 marine-mammal deaths, nearly all bottlenose dolphins, in the northern Gulf of Mexico have identified a specific bacterial infection as a possible culprit. The deaths, declared an "unusual mortality event" requiring intensive study by the National Oceanic and...
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Posted by on in General Environment
A Canadian senator has launched a campaign to replace the industrious beaver with the indomitable polar bear as Canada's national emblem, saying the incumbent is "a dentally defective rat."   Conservative Senator Nicole Eaton delivered her damning criticism in the Senate on Thursday, noting t...
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Posted by on in Agriculture
A rhinoceros killed for its horn last year in Vietnam is now considered to have been the last of its subspecies. Scientists from the World Wildlife Fund reported Monday (Oct. 25) that they and their partners have analyzed the DNA from 22 dung samples collected in Vietnam since April 2010, when the ...
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Posted by on in Agriculture
  An animal rights group has sued SeaWorld, accusing the aquatic theme park chain of violating the rights of captive killer whales under the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution, which abolished slavery. The lawsuit, filed late on Tuesday in US District Court in San Diego, lists five per...
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Posted by on in Fossil Fuels
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell proposed a new way forward on a natural gas pipeline Thursday, saying if demand for gas has shifted from the Lower 48 to Pacific Rim markets, the state must be willing to move with it.   Parnell, in a speech to an oil and gas industry g...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
Thoughts of Boris ‘Bo’ Jr. is a new video blog series from the bloomtrigger project. Juan and Boris will give us regular snippets of information about climate change and deforestation. Not to be missed! http://www.earthprotect.com/animals/bugs/viewvideo/2218/climate-change/thoughts-of-boris-bo-jr-s...
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Posted by on in Oil Spill
  The Deepwater Horizon oil spill will forever be a part of history, and has recently been a major driver for a change of protocol and regulation. One aspect of this disaster that is a direct consequence is how marine life has been impacted since April 20th, 2010.  Marine mammals have be...
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Posted by on in Oil Spill
Dead dolphins have washed ashore in the hundreds along the central Gulf Coast, prompting federal officials to launch an open-ended investigation. Since February 2010, 567 dead or distressed whales and dolphins have washed ashore in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Of those, 274 washed...
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Posted by on in Sustainable Development
Visitors to this city’s burial ground learn more from the dead, particularly about the whale shark and other endangered sea creatures. The 12-year-old “fish cemetery” of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has become a field school all year round, even to the curious, according to ...
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Posted by on in General Environment
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) faced scrutiny on Capitol Hill again this week over the high costs of its record number of environmental regulations.  During a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee, the agency’s air chief denied consequences of the Clean Ai...
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Posted by on in Transportation
At long last, America is taking steps to end our dangerous addiction to oil. With two announcements in the same number of weeks, the Obama administration announced plans that will require every new vehicle on the road to go farther on a gallon of gas, reducing the risk of more oil spills and the dan...
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Posted by on in Oil Spill
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. regulators said a supplemental exploration plan was approved for BP's work in the Gulf of Mexico, its first since the Deepwater Horizon accident in 2010. An explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in April 2010 led to one of the world's worst oil spills and led...
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Posted by on in Oil Spill
Despite the fact that the federal government  issued citations against BP that said  it failed to protect safety and the environment in regards to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill disaster (trial date February 2012), they are allowing the company to bid for new oil drilling leases in the Gu...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
“Where Did Global Warming Go?” (Sunday Review, Oct. 16) notes that Europe, Australia, China, India and Brazil are all moving ahead with policies to reduce heat-trapping pollution, while most American politicians duck the issue or actively question the reality of the problem. Unfortunately, the arti...
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Posted by on in Forestry
Mark Tercek knows a thing or two about money. For years he worked at the mega investment firm Goldman Sachs, where he headed the Corporate Finance and Equity Capital Markets divisions, and later went on to found the company’s Center for Environmental Markets. Since 2008, he’s been the president and ...
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Posted by on in Food
If you need more proof that climate change is destroying the world, consider your favorite foods and beverages. Changing temperatures, unpredictable rainfall, and record droughts are affecting production of honey, coffee, chocolate, and bourbon—just to name a few. Do you want to live in a world with...
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Posted by on in Sustainable Development
Almost every day of his childhood, He Xin remembers the skies in his hometown of Shenyang being gray. “If I wore a white shirt to school, by the end of the day it would be brown,” recalls He, who was born in 1974, “and there would be a ring of black soot under the collar.”     He grew u...
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