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photo: Chor Ip via flickr. As any TreeHugger worth his or her epiphytes knows, preserving tropical rainforests is a major part of preventing the worst of climate change --deforestation itself causing nearly as many carbon emissions as the entire transportation sector. But over the past year... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: ltshears /Flickr The government of Afghanistan may be focused on routing the Taliban insurgency but increasingly, the country has found ways to enact basic environmental protections as well. The growing list of protected endangered species is just one example of these efforts. Only a year old, the list received several new additions this weekend, inclu... Read the ...
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Some of the author's chickens going outside for the first time Today is the first birthday of my four hens but I don't feel much like celebrating; I think I'll just have an omelet. These unlikely members of my household come with benefits and drawbacks, not all of them expected when I first decided to get them. Last year ...
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Images by B. Alter Of all the new architecture built for the Vancouver Olympics, the Richmond Olympic Oval is the jewel in the crown . Its clean soaring lines and 17 graceful arches that make up the wood ceiling give the building grandeur and elegance. But the really interesting part of its construction is the material used: one million ...
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