Environment

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Seal Hunt Goes on Despite Melting Ice

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No Ice in Arctic Means No Snow in Aspen

Typical Bank of America local office in Los Angeles

Bank of America is Seeing Green

Roald Amundsen and his crew looking at the Norwegian flag at the South Pole, 1911

Antarctica's Lost & Found Dept.

IKEA's $.05 Campaign to Save the Environment

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Scannable Birds? New DNA Barcodes Classify Nature

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Seeds Kept Safe in Arctic Circle Vault

Corn is the main feedstock used for producing ethanol fuel in the United States.

Finding Alternatives to Bush's Alternative Fuels

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How Many Politicians Does It Take to Change a Lightbulb?

Black and white-furred gray wolves

In Danger of Endangerment

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Top 10 Polluted Cities

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Warm Temperatures Get Zoo Animals Steamy

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Wild Things: Life As We Know It

Figs, canary songs, whales with legs, ancient flowering shrubs and beaver dams

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The Dying of the Dead Sea

The ancient salt sea is the site of a looming environmental catastrophe

Raymond Tritt, 52, dresses a fallen bull on the spring caribou hunt. Like virtually every Gwich'in man, he still remembers every detail of his first successful hunt, four decades later. The 100,000-plus caribou of the Porcupine River herd are a focal point for the Gwich'in people: they are a main source of sustenance as well as the key element in the group's rituals, dances and stories. "If we lose the caribou," says a tribal elder, "we lose our way of life."

ANWR: The Great Divide

The renewed debate over drilling for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge hits home for the two Native groups nearest the nature preserve

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Will the Dunes March Once Again?

As recently as 200 years ago, dunes and sheet sand were active throughout the Great Plains. A serious drought could bring them back

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The Berry and the Poison

Methyl bromide makes our fields fruitful; it will soon be banned, not because it's toxic and it's very toxic but because it attacks the ozone layer

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The Life or Death of the Salton Sea?

This huge California lake was a haven for birds and fish, and aimed to be a paradise for man but toxic chemicals and salt may be doing it in

Chimney Sweeps Are Plunging Into Their Work Again

With more of us using fireplaces and modern high-efficiency wood stoves, the ancient profession is getting a new lease on soot

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For Our Nuclear Wastes, There's Gridlock on the Way to the Dump

It's not an emergency yet, but we have tons of the stuff, some of it hot, some not so hot, and nobody can agree on where to bury it

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