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Anglo-Dutch food and cosmetics giant Unilever said Friday it was severing ties with an Indonesian palm oil supplier accused by environmental organisation Greenpeace of destroying rainforests.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the eighth of a series on hiking in Orange County. With the exception of the mountain lion, dangerous animals no longer roam the back country of Orange County. And, you could hike the hills of OC all your life and never see a...
It's been a day of significant contrasts at Copenhagen as the end of the first week of COP15 draws to a close. The day started with a clear challenge at the Climate Summit "Business Day" from Yvo de Boer, the UN's chief climate czar, that business was not making itself relevant or visible to negotiators. He claimed businesses were either lost in the details (heat pump standards) or asking for ...
Associated Press - December 11, 2009 6:24 PM ET ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Gov. Sean Parnell will ask legislators for $8 million for preliminary work that could lead to construction of a 90-mile...
It's a little unusual for a small place like Roche Harbor to host a salmon derby, so eyebrows raised even higher when the resort community on San Juan Island announced it would add a second derby.
Musician Wyclef Jean integrates culture and business through his charity, Y?le Haiti.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford may be keeping his office, but he is losing his marriage.
An anonymous donor gave $3,500 to the Salvation Army Thursday. The mystery giver dropped 35 $100 bill into a Salvation Army Kettle at the same location as last year's unique generous donations, Walmart Battlefield Parkway.
People the world over are dedicated to sustaining the Olympic ideal. In 1960, much of what is now Ed Z'berg Sugar Pine Point State Park hosted the 1960 cross-country ski venue. Competitors raced over 57 kilometers of trail through the General and McKinney Creek areas. Jan. 8-17 these historic venues will come alive with the Olympic spirit with special events on the west shore of Lake Tahoe. A ...
Landmark consultants, independent of the state or the county, has been testing homes all over The Acreage... where several cancer cases have been reported.
Recently, the local economy has felt the impacts of outside market forces — namely the national housing crisis, which washed ashore here a little over a year ago with major ramifications to both private and public budgets.
The Sheep Mountain Alliance will hold its annual meeting this Friday, where the conservation group will discuss several projects in the works — one to save more than 60,000 acres of wilderness — and dine on locally grown delicacies.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The federal government has acknowledged it never prosecuted anyone who failed to pay a bid for drilling rights in Utah until a college student offered his bogus bids in an act of environmental defiance.
Mayor Daley and his Great Lakes counterparts demanded Friday that the governments of the U.S. and Canada do more to save the shoreline and protect the Great Lakes from the Asian carp and other invasive species. President Obama's $475 million commitment to Great Lakes restoration is "only a downpayment" on the work that needs to be done—and Canada has failed to even match that contribution, the ...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced last week it would again consider the Gunnison sage-grouse for an endangered species listing, marking yet another review of the bird’s plight in the American West.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Ski resorts across the U.S. are using this Thanksgiving holiday weekend to jump start their winter seasons, but with every passing year comes a frightening realization: If global temperatures continue to rise, fewer and fewer resorts will be able to open for the traditional beginning of ski season.
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Snow blowers blast geysers of white stuff onto the hills. A new crop of employees is trained in the art of ticket checking. And skiers count down the days, finding promise in each early season snowfall.
For a relatively small team, The New Community Coalition (TNCC) is making quite the impact.
911 tapes from the incident in which an Horry County High School Student was shot and killed show there was some confusion between school officials and police dispatchers.
Up on Schmid Ranch, a rolling spread of mesa-top land that has been worked by the same family for more than 100 years, you will find all the trappings of an old ranch.
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