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15 Questions with Jane Goodall
The world-renowned conservationist and iconic friend of the chimpanzees talks about her past in the field and her future spreading the message of coexistence with our planet. 1. Fifteen Minutes: You traveled to Lake Tanganyika at age 26 without any formal training or university degree.
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Column: ‘Spill, baby, spill’ is turning into kill, kill, kill
Last week, the Deepwater Horizon rig sunk in the Gulf of Mexico, just 40 miles from the Louisiana shore. Initially, British Petroleum (BP) - the company leasing the rig at the time of the explosion - wrote off the oil leakage as insignificant.
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Editorial: Spilling oil on old wounds
Natural disasters are one thing, but oil spills and errors of that nature are like self-inflicted wounds. And like any other bullet in the foot, they are completely preventable.
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Volunteers needed to help clean up oil spill on the coast
News of the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has spread through campuses across the nation, and many students want to know how they can help. Petty Officer Brandon Blackwell with the U.S.
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New Orchid Species Found in Flowering U. California Collection
Each time James Ackerman looks at the newly discovered species of orchid housed at the U. California Botanical Garden at Berkeley, he sees the old friend who came upon the rare flower in the mountains of Haiti only by chance.
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Carbon emission evidence in Native American-era cave
Walls still can't talk, but an Ohio U. professor used a 7,000-year-old stalagmite to prove rocks can tell stories. Gregory Springer, associate professor of geological sciences, along with Harry Rowe, a professor of geology at the U.
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Burning of oil at leak in Gulf poised to start
Crews were poised to begin setting fire to oil leaking from the site of an exploded drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, a last-ditch effort to get rid of it before it reaches environmentally sensitive marshlands on the coast.
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Courses go green with clean energy
A group of Washington State U. researchers recently received $2.5 million from the Department of Energy to develop courses to train engineers in clean energy and the smart electric power grid. Some of the courses should be available by next spring.
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West Philly High wins hybrid car contests
“As teenagers, we have a broader creative imagination to come up with seemingly impossible alternatives for sustainability.
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