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03/10/2010 01:27 PM

Bipartisan Great Lakes Restoration Bill Wins Environmental Support

WASHINGTON, DC, March 9, 2010 (ENS) - Bipartisan legislation that promises the largest federal investment ever to clean up the Great Lakes - $650 million annually for the next five years - has been in...

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03/10/2010 01:11 PM

U.N. climate panel faces major review

UNITED NATIONS - The world#039;s biggest scientific guns are being called in to mop up after a trickle of unsettling errors in the reports written by the U.N. climate panel.

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03/10/2010 01:11 PM

Going green make you more virtuous

private jet to the meeting on climate change ). Still, hypocrisy is so rife, there surely has to be more to it. In the case of environmental hypocrisy, that quot;morequot; may be the virtuous glow we get fro...

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03/10/2010 12:47 PM

Rockhill Adds Schneider to Environmental Insurance Team

Article Reprints Rockhill Underwriting Management, based in Kansas City, Mo., has hired Kenneth Schneider as senior vice president of its Environmental unit. Schneider will manage all aspects of the e...

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03/10/2010 11:12 AM

#039;He had sustained multiple bite wounds#039;

A 36-year-old man was seriously injured when two pit bull terriers attacked him at his home in Oribi village outside Pietermaritzburg on Wednesday afternoon, paramedics said. quot;Paramedics arrived on...

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03/10/2010 10:46 AM

China tells US to do more on climate change

BEIJING (AP) - China told the United States on Wednesday to make stronger commitments on climate change and provide environmental expertise and financing to developing nations. China#039;s top climate cha...

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03/10/2010 09:24 AM

Trees grown to replace coal at power station

The trial will see native mallee eucalypt trees planted on 10 farms around Forbes. They#039;ll eventually be harvested and used as fuel at the Wallerawang Power Station near Lithgow. It#039;s the first ...

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03/10/2010 09:21 AM

Warm Sunshine Brings Buds Into Bloom On East Texas Trees

CHAD THOMAS Staff WriterAs if on cue, previously dormant flora seemed to awaken all at once Tuesday as sunshine and warm breezes gave East Texas an early glimpse of spring.

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03/10/2010 09:11 AM

Appeals court takes up ban on new roads in forests

DENVERmdash;A federal appeals court in Denver will hear oral arguments on a ban on building new roads in national forests. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is weighing a lawsuit filed by the st...

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03/10/2010 08:16 AM

Trees Use Neighbors In Fight Against Herbivores

Scandinavian scientists have discovered that a species of tree defends itself from herbivore attack by using chemicals emitted by neighboring plants. The study, published March 9 in New Phytologist, r...

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vkram : Environment News

Bipartisan Great Lakes Restoration Bill Wins Environmental Support

U.N. climate panel faces major review

Going green make you more virtuous

Rockhill Adds Schneider to Environmental Insurance Team

#039;He had sustained multiple bite wounds#039;

China tells US to do more on climate change

Trees grown to replace coal at power station

Warm Sunshine Brings Buds Into Bloom On East Texas Trees

Appeals court takes up ban on new roads in forests

Trees Use Neighbors In Fight Against Herbivores