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Cousteau urges stewardship of oceans on Earth Day
Environmental activist Jean-Michel Cousteau said there are two questions he is often asked: first, if his father, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, was skinny because of water pressure (he wasn’t); and second, if he enjoys swimming in an ocean full of sea creatures’ excrement.
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Former Costa Rican president backs sustainability
Economic growth does not have to come at the expense of the environment, said José María Figueres, the former president of Costa Rica, in a speech at Duke U. Thursday.
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Campus club recycles oil for biodiesel
Sloshing around a large barrel, the swirling black cooking oil smelled like rancid food. Though the waste would usually be discarded, some Washington State U. students are trying to find a way to turn it into fuel.
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Sales of the death men
Todd Miller slowly positions the head of the body between plastic blocks as Curtis Foley makes a 2-inch incision on the neck near the collar bone.
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Celebrated filmmaker discusses problem with plastics
Plastic is in practically everything, from shoes to shampoo bottles. One man, filmmaker Ian Connacher, set out to answer the question: Do we have a healthy relationship with plastic, or is it an addiction?
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Hansen Clarifies Realities Of Global Climate Change
Dr. James E. Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Science, arrived at Cornell U. Monday to discuss the imminent reality of climate change. Hansenhas spent the last 30 years studying the reality of humans’ impact on climate change.
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U. Minnesota lands millions for green energy research
After five years of researching biofuel sustainability, Institute on the Environment resident fellow Jason Hill hit a roadblock. Hill and other U. Minnesota researchers have had trouble determining the best locations to sustainably produce biomass.
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U. California-Berkeley Professor to Serve as New Clean Energy Adviser
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week appointed a U. California-Berkeley professor to serve as a new type of adviser on clean energy issues for countries in the Western Hemisphere.
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Researchers Fabricate ‘Molecular Paper’
Researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have created a self-assembling "molecular paper" that may be used for various biological applications in the future.
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