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| National Geographic On Invasive Species
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| posted on Tuesday, June 17, 2008
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Across the world, plants and animals are silently finding their way
into places where they don't belong. These interlopers, called invasive
species, have enormous powers -- they spread disease, they devour our
buildings. Some are destroying the very land under our feet. Odds are
these species that evolved in one place and now live destructively in
another may have even infiltrated your own backyard. Join actor Edward
Norton to uncover mysterious threats to the environment caused by
invasive species.
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| Exxon's Greenwash
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| posted on Tuesday, June 17, 2008
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ExxonMobil recently launched a new ad campaign
that is a significant flip-flop from their years of denial that climate
change is not a problem. Perhaps this as good time as any to review
some of Exxon's past conduct around climate change...
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| Earth 2100: Is This Century Our Last?
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| posted on Friday, June 13, 2008
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Are we living in the last century of our civilization? Is it possible
that all of our technology, knowledge and wealth cannot save us from
ourselves? Could our society actually be heading towards collapse? According to many of the world's top scientists, the answer is yes, unless we take action now.
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| Last Flight Of The Honeybee?
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| posted on Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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A bee-less world wouldn't just mean the end of honey -- Einstein said
that if the honeybee became extinct, then so would mankind. Alison
Benjamin reports on a very real threat.
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| How Man-Made Noise May Be Altering Earth's Ecology
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| posted on Monday, June 02, 2008
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Bernie Krause listens to nature for a living. The 69-year-old is a
field recording scientist: He heads into the wilderness to document the
noises made by native fauna -- crickets chirping in the Amazon rain
forest, frogs croaking in the Australian outback. But Krause has noticed something alarming. The natural sound of the
world is vanishing. He'll be deep inside the Amazon, recording that
cricket, but when he listens carefully he also hears machinery: The
distant howl of a 747 or the dull roar of a Hummer miles way.
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| Ecosystem Damage Costs Trillions Per Year
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| posted on Monday, June 02, 2008
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Environmental damage and species loss costs between 1.35 and 3.1
trillion euros (2.1 to 4.8 trillion dollars) every year, according to a
report released Thursday at a major UN conference on biodiversity.
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| Wal-Mart Live Better Index
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| posted on Wednesday, May 07, 2008
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To support Wal-Mart’s ongoing commitment to helping customers save
money and live better, Wal-Mart established the Live Better Index in
April 2007 with its first focus on the environment. The sustainability
Live Better Index follows the adoption rates, or penetration across a
particular product category, of a sampling of eco-friendly products
based on Wal-Mart sales data. These products were selected because
consumers can make a conscious decision to purchase them for their
environmental benefits versus other products in the same category. The
overall adoption rate of these products serves as a nationwide trend
indicator of consumer demand for green products.
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