Amchitka: The concert that launched Greenpeace
The Star-Ledger - Thu Dec 3, 5:43 pm ETJoni Mitchell, James Taylor and others played the 1970 Greenpeace benefit concert in Vancouver.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Head in Seattle to Award âEmerging Technologiesâ Grant
The Auto Channel - Thu Dec 3, 9:20 pm ETSEATTLE--The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s highest official is in Seattle today to announce an investment in marine technology that promises to lower air pollutants’ harmful risks even as it preserves local jobs.
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Transcript: Green Revolution
Forbes - Thu Dec 3, 6:06 pm ETGreenpeace executive director Phil Radford wants environmental organizations to return to their grassroots.
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Report: No fault with forest workers in fatal fire
AP via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 5:49 pm ETFederal investigators have found no misconduct by U.S. Forest Service personnel in the deaths of five firefighters in a massive 2006 California wildfire.
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United Nations to probe climate e-mail leak
AP via Yahoo! News - 6 minutes agoThe United Nations will conduct its own investigation into e-mails leaked from a leading British climate science center in addition to the probe by the University of East Anglia, a senior U.N. climate official said Friday.
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Nepal holds highest Cabinet meeting at Mt. Everest
AP via Yahoo! News - 17 minutes agoNepal's top politicians strapped on oxygen tanks Friday and held a Cabinet meeting amid Mount Everest's frigid, thin air to highlight the danger global warming poses to glaciers, ahead of next week's international climate change talks.
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Wyoming BLM lease sale nets almost $3 million
AP via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 4:49 pm ETA Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease sale in Wyoming has generated nearly $3 million.
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Scientists test climate change 'early-warning system'
CNN - 31 minutes agoAn international team of scientists has developed a new method of measuring the absorption of CO2 by the oceans that could become an "early-warning system" for climate change.
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Everest hosts Nepal cabinet meeting
CNN - 35 minutes agoNepal's cabinet met at the base of Everest on Friday to highlight the impact of climate change on the Himalayas and adopted a 10-point Everest Declaration.
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Obama, lawmakers target bailout fund for jobs bill
AP via Yahoo! News - 40 minutes agoPresident Barack Obama's options for spurring job growth may be limited by out-of-control budget deficits, but with the unemployment rate hovering at 10 percent he is warming to moves by his congressional allies for a jobs-boosting bill.
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UN 'to probe alleged climate change cover-up'
AFP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 2 minutes agoA top UN panel is to probe claims that British scientists sought to suppress data backing climate change sceptics' views, its head said on Friday ahead of the landmark Copenhagen summit.
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IRS sells SD Indian tribe's land to settle debt
AP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 11 minutes agoThe Internal Revenue Service on Thursday auctioned off a large swath of land owned by an impoverished Indian tribe to help pay off more than $3 million in back taxes, penalties and interest — a sale the tribe says is illegal under federal laws protecting Indian land.
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Kerry Unveils Foreign Relations' Contribution to Senate Climate Bill
New York Times - 1 hour 22 minutes agoSenate Foreign Relations Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.) introduced global warming legislation yesterday that he said will serv...
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Copenhagen's Low-Carbon Formula: Add Wind Turbines, Subtract Hamburgers
New York Times - 1 hour 22 minutes agoCOPENHAGEN -- More windmills and electric cars. More bikes and parks. Fewer coal plants and beef patties. This is Copenhagen'...
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Single Asian carp found in Chicago-area fish kill
AP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 27 minutes agoWildlife officials discovered a single Asian carp Thursday in a canal leading to Lake Michigan, the nearest the destructive species has come to the Great Lakes, Illinois environmental officials said.
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America's coolest small towns
CNN - 1 hour 39 minutes agoEvery now and then, you stumble upon a town that's gotten everything right -- great coffee, food with character, shop owners with purpose. These 10 spots have it all, in perfectly small doses.
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Chinese Firms Plan to Raise $2 Billion Each in I.P.O’s
New York Times - 1 hour 44 minutes agoLongyuan Power Group and China Shipping Industry plan initial public offerings in Hong Kong and Shanghai, testing the appetites of investors strained by a glut of recent listings.
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'Doughnut hole' unites seniors wary of health bill
AP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 48 minutes agoLawmakers have wooed seniors skeptical of the health care overhaul by emphasizing the plan would close the "doughnut hole" — a gap in Medicare drug coverage that can cost thousands of dollars a year.
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Nepalese cabinet holds Everest meeting
AFP via Yahoo! News - 2 hours 16 minutes agoNepalese ministers equipped with oxygen tanks battled freezing temperatures for a cabinet meeting in the shadow of Mount Everest on Friday to highlight the impact of climate change on the Himalayas.
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Wind Power Raises $2.3 Billion in Hong Kong
New York Times - 2 hours 23 minutes agoChina Longyuan Power Group , the country’s largest wind-power producer, raised HK$17.5 billion ($2.26 billion) in the world’s third-biggest initial public offering by an alternative energy company, Bloomberg News reported.
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Wildland fire season officially ends
Kern Valley Sun - Fri Dec 4, 1:31 am ETThe U.S. Forest Service (USFS), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Tule River Reservation Fire Department (TIA) and Kern County Fire Department (KCFD) officially declared the end of the 2009 wildland fire season on Saturday, November 21st.
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HealthWatch: Avoiding Aging Effects Of Pollution
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Massive Fish Kill Yields Only 1 Asian Carp
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