Environment
France bans fracking
July 1, 2011The French parliament voted to ban fracking - a worrisome technique used to extract gas from rock deposits.
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China’s green power plan
June 30, 2011The energy's always greener on the other side...of the world, that is. Particularly, in China.
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Blown-up levee destroys black community
June 21, 2011A small African-American town is suffering after the Army Corps of Engineers decided to blow holes in a levee in eastern Missouri.
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Food deficits, deadlier than budget deficits
June 21, 2011Living on a farm makes me think long and deep about food deficits here at home and around the world, deficits far more menacing than budget deficits.
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Who needs the oceans?
June 21, 2011The first ever report from the International Programme on the State of the Ocean warns of mass extinction of marine life.
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