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Study: False killer whales declining off Hawaii

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The population of false killer whales in waters close to Hawaii appears to have dramatically declined over the past 20 years, a new study says.





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Earth Day crowds leaving carbon footprints

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 23, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Environmental activists say many public Earth Day and other environmental events are leaving a trail of waste and carbon emissions.


Greenpeace takes on tuna fishing

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 23, 2008 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Greenpeace says it confronted a U.S. tuna boat in the South Pacific this week as part of an effort to fight overfishing by commercial fishing fleets.


Green energy meeting riles activists

Space & Earth /

created Jan 10, 2006 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A controversial group that promises economic growth while cleaning the environment will emasculate the so-called Kyoto Protocol, environmental groups claim.


Houston says benzene levels rising

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 10, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Chemical industry officials deny a claim by public officials that levels of benzene have increased in the Houston region, a published report said Sunday.


SmartGrow uses hair to grow food

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 24, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A new product marketed as SmartGrow uses human hair imported from China and India to help people with their horticultural efforts.


Amalgam fillings are safe, but skeptics still claim controversy, researcher says

Amalgam fillings are safe, but skeptics still claim controversy, researcher says

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Dental amalgam has been proven safe and effective for years, yet unfounded controversy still surrounds it, a Medical College of Georgia researcher says.


Greenpeace opposes Italian gas terminal

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 29, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Environmental activists want to block Italian plans to install a floating natural gas terminal in the middle of a whale and dolphin sanctuary.


A kangaroo is pictured in the Kiewa Valley

Australian kangaroo cull prompts outrage

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 3

The culling of some 140 kangaroos on one of Australia's most famous race car tracks prompted outrage Friday from environmentalists and animal rights activists.


A visitor arrives on a launch at Raven's Ait, a squatted island on the river Thames in west London

In Britain, green squatters seize island

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (7) | comments 1

A bucolic, sun-dappled island in the river Thames seems an unlikely setting for an environmental and lifestyle standoff -- but that's what green squatters are staging.


The Australian town of Bundanoon pulled all bottled water from its shelves Saturday and replaced it with refillable ones

Australian town in 'world-first' bottled water ban

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 26, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 8

An Australian town pulled all bottled water from its shelves Saturday and replaced it with refillable bottles in what is believed to be a world-first ban.



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