Conservationist groups say the proposed highway will decimate migrating wildebeest herds. Continue Reading →
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Bundanoon: a new verb—and green movement—from Oz
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"Bundanoon” is a new green verb referencing an Australian town that prohibited bottled drinking water in 2009. Continue Reading →
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The retrofitting of suburbia
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"We tend to think that downtowns should be dynamic, and we expect that. But we seem to have an expectation that the suburbs should somehow remain frozen in whatever adolescent form they were first given birth to. It's time to let them grow up." Continue Reading →
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Bhopal gas victims still searching for justice after 25 years
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Activists cite a double standard in the U.S. response to Gulf Oil Spill versus the U.S. response to Union Carbide's Bhopal Disaster, which killed up up 23,000 people. Continue Reading →
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Niger Delta oil spills dwarf BP, Exxon Valdez catastrophes
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Thousands of spills across decades have ravaged the Niger Delta region. Continue Reading →
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Trashy hotel built from beach debris
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Rome is home to the Pantheon and the Colosseum, but last week the city added something entirely different—and trashier—to its architectural repertoire. Continue Reading →
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Alaska on fire while Lower 48 girds for summer wildfires
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Fairbanks is smoky. Anchorage is smoky. To be in Alaska this early June is to see skies of haze, mixed with the scent of burning forests. Continue Reading →
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Way up north, another kind of oil controversy
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Not many people have heard of Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, nor the Athabaskan Tar Sands. Not these days, anyway, with the Deepwater Horizon disaster spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico. But in Fort Chipewyan, the ongoing effects of bitumen oil extraction continue as the top news of the day. Continue Reading →
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Urban planning in the Brazilian rainforest
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A vast experiment in urban planning is underway in Brazil's urban jungle metropolis of Manaus. At the center of the urban expansion is the construction of a 2.2-mile bridge that is to connect the city to industrial cities and towns across the Rio Negro—the largest left tributary of the Amazon. Continue Reading →
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Yosemite’s Range of Light goes solar
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Yosemite National Park, the gemstone of John Muir's "Range of Light" in California's Sierra Nevada, has agreed to a $4.4 million solar panel installation at its El Portal entrance. Continue Reading →