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Two Oklahoma Indian Tribes Contest State for Water Rights
08/23/2011The Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian tribes in Oklahoma have filed a federal lawsuit to protect water rights they say derived from…
Read MoreAn Index for Ocean Health
08/23/2011By DYLAN WALSH What has been billed as the “Dow Jones of ocean health” is six months from release, and Ben…
Read MoreNations Fall Short in Helping 12.4M Africans in Drought-Caused Famine
08/23/2011By LISA FRIEDMAN of ClimateWire Warning that famine in Somalia is likely to get worse before it gets better, Secretary of…
Read MoreScience and salmon
08/22/2011Eight senators from salmon-fishing states warn the Food and Drug Administration against spending money to study whether genetically modified salmon are…
Read MoreRevenue rises but losses widen at electric car company Tesla
08/22/2011Electric car company Tesla Motors Inc. posted a loss of $58.9 million in the second quarter as it sunk money into…
Read MoreiPhone App Tracks Marine Litter, Reports It Online
08/22/2011by Jaymi Heimbuch, San Francisco, California Science & Technology Marine litter is a real problem, not just for animals but for…
Read MoreTesco quietly drops controversial biodegradable plastic carrier bags
08/22/2011Supermarket replaces oxo-biodegradable additive bags and says new bags will use 15 per cent recycled material By Jessica Shankleman Fresh doubts…
Read MoreThe Pick Up Artists are a group of young people who are literally walking across the country picking up roadside trash as they go.
08/22/2011Pick Up America is a beautiful project of four people walking across the country picking up trash on the way. They’re…
Read MoreTerraCycle Makes Design Out of Rubbish
08/22/2011TRENTON ON a blazing hot weekday late last month, 6 of the 82 summer interns at TerraCycle, a “waste solution development”…
Read MoreA Facebook Game Teaches ‘Upcycling’
08/22/2011By PENELOPE GREEN GuerillappsTrash Tycoon involves gathering bits of trash, making fertilizer out of worm droppings and other upcycling activities. In…
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