Tag: environment
group name: npr
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June 19, 2008 10:27 AM EDT --
His father was against it. So was his brother, Florida Governor Jeb Bush. So was he. But yesterday in the Rose Garden, with four-dollar gas at the pump, US President George W. Bush said: . . .
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June 20, 2007 10:32 AM EDT --
Right across the planet, good fresh water supplies are under pressure. In America's West and Southwest, the combination of drought and booming population growth have made that pressure intense.
As . . .
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July 03, 2007 11:15 AM EDT --
How thirsty is America for bottled water? Pretty darned thirsty.
Every week of the year we now move a billion bottles of water from ground to gullet in ships and trains and trucks. That's the equivalent . . .
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August 16, 2007 10:52 AM EDT --
It’s been a summer of violent and gut-wrenching crime reports in America. From execution-style shootings in Newark to New Orleans and Oakland and home invasion in the leafy suburbs of Connecticut, . . .
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July 18, 2007 02:59 PM EDT --
Rivers may be made for swimming, but Americans haven’t done much of that in a long time -- too dirty, too scary.
Akiko Busch was facing milestones and loss and change. She walked down to the nearest . . .
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April 22, 2008 10:29 AM EDT --
Each year, spring has been creeping up a little faster. In the Northeast, it's accelerated about 8 hours earlier each year, since 1982. And while we might revel in the warmer weather and . . .
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August 08, 2007 10:50 AM EDT --
It was a quirky story in the US news media, and a national triumph in Moscow. Last Thursday, in the frigid wake of a nuclear powered ice-breaker, Russia sent two mini-submarines 13,000 feet beneath . . .
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August 15, 2007 11:48 AM EDT --
In the storybook, when little Heidi got sick, she went to the countryside to recover -- sunshine and meadows. That's where health, and the healthy life, were: in the tidy suburbs and the rosy-cheeked, . . .
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May 13, 2008 10:48 AM EDT --
Cyclone Nargis may have killed 100,000 in Myanmar's Irriwaddy Delta. Missouri, Oklahoma and GeorgiaUS this year. Many can't help asking if this is global warming's not-so-invisible . . .
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November 29, 2007 11:29 AM EST --
Birdwatching is big. A shotgun and bird-stuffing operation in the early 1800’s, it has grown into a recreational sport that is all but mainstream today, bringing millions of Americans to parks and . . .
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March 28, 2008 11:20 AM EDT --
Long before modern industry and shiny SUV's, there was global warming.
In a new book, anthropologist Brian Fagan tells us that 1,000 years ago Mother Nature turned up the heat. There were big winners . . .
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July 22, 2008 11:02 AM EDT --
If you've got a lawn or a neighbor with a lawn, a lawn mower is probably your weekend soundtrack. A small price to pay, along with the $45 billion a year Americans spend on landscaping, to keep . . .
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November 21, 2007 11:09 AM EST --
Today, doing right by the environment has become a new corporate creed, essential to a company’s public image. But, get inside a company trying to go green and the story gets more complicated. . . .
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April 10, 2008 11:02 AM EDT --
It seems like every other day there's a new study that says the planet is heating up, and we're to blame.
But it's hard to really understand how each one of us, as individuals, contributed . . .
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December 04, 2007 10:43 AM EST --
From Bali to the Beltway, our energy future may be coming on line right now. Energy and climate bills are on the table in Congress, and a world summit in Bali is convening to hash out the Earth’s . . .
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September 10, 2006 11:22 AM EDT --
An idea for a short motion picture or segment of a public health documentary film...
Two people get tested TOGETHER for a VARIETY of sexually transmitted infections and share their results BEFORE having . . .
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