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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:31:15 CST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Greenpeace: Apple iPhone More Brown than Green]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:31:15 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Greenpeace this week ripped into Apple for failing to make &quot;early progress&quot; with the iPhone toward the company's stated goals for ecofriendliness. The report touched off a debate over whether the hugely popular mobile device is safe for its users<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate Change and the Law]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:31:15 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Global negotiations on stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions in the period after 2012 will commence in Bali in December. The main emitters--including Brazil, Canada, China, the European Union, India, Mexico, South Africa and the U.S.--have recently a<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate Change and the Law (Extended edition)]]></title>
<link>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/Climate_Change_and_the_Law_Extended_edition/</link>
<comments>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/Climate_Change_and_the_Law_Extended_edition/</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:31:14 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Global negotiations on stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions in the period after 2012 will commence in Bali in December 2007. The main emitting nations--including Brazil, Canada, China, the European Union, India, Mexico, South Africa and the U.S.--ha<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Nuclear Power Reborn]]></title>
<link>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/Nuclear_Power_Reborn/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:22:14 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The two reactors at the South Texas nuclear power plant, an hour southwest of Houston, last year churned out 21.37 billion kilowatt-hours. By 2015, its majority owner, New Jersey-based NRG Energy, hopes to at least double that capacity if it gets pe<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Saving Gas and Lives]]></title>
<link>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/Saving_Gas_and_Lives/</link>
<comments>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/Saving_Gas_and_Lives/</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:48:29 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[For years, the automobile industry has argued that congressional attempts to make cars and trucks more fuel-efficient would compromise passenger safety. The argument is based on the premise that the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards im<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Conservation for the People]]></title>
<link>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/Conservation_for_the_People/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:48:29 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In 2004 the World Conservation Union placed three vultures--the long-billed, the slender-billed and the Oriental white-backed--on the critically endangered list. Populations of all three reached nearly 40 million in India and South Asia in the early<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Heating Up]]></title>
<link>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/Heating_Up/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:48:27 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[More than 30 states have passed or are considering &quot;renewable energy portfolio standards&quot; that require utility companies to generate some portion of their electricity from renewable sources. Geothermal power plants, which tap hot subterranean water <br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why do we have a hurricane season?]]></title>
<link>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/Why_do_we_have_a_hurricane_season/</link>
<comments>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/Why_do_we_have_a_hurricane_season/</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:48:27 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Jose Maliekal, an associate professor of earth sciences at the State University of New York at Brockport, explains: <br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Nothing Says]]></title>
<link>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/Nothing_Says-1/</link>
<comments>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/Nothing_Says-1/</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:47:01 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Earth is roughly 4.5 billion years old, but her early eons were tempestuous. Not even rock survives from the first 500 million years of her life--an eon known as the Hadean--because geologists speculate the planet's surface boiled and bubbled with <br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Do Nanoparticles and Sunscreen Mix?]]></title>
<link>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/Do_Nanoparticles_and_Sunscreen_Mix/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:49:36 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sunscreens shield human skin with chemicals that either absorb or deflect damaging ultraviolet rays, most often titanium dioxide or the zinc oxide known best as the white stuff lifeguards slather on their noses. But it seems they (and others) don't<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Breaking the Poverty Trap]]></title>
<link>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/Breaking_the_Poverty_Trap/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:39:02 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The most destitute regions of the planet--in Africa, Central Asia, the Andes and a few other places--are not merely poor: they are seemingly trapped in poverty and prone to internal violence and political collapse. The regional distribution of these<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Your Printer Polluting the Air You Breathe?]]></title>
<link>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/Is_Your_Printer_Polluting_the_Air_You_Breathe/</link>
<comments>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/Is_Your_Printer_Polluting_the_Air_You_Breathe/</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 18:47:59 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[You know about choking, toxic emissions from cars, cigarettes and coal-burning plants. But did it ever occur to you that your handy dandy printer might be a source of lung-damaging pollutants?<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pete H's Homemade Air Conditioner]]></title>
<link>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/Pete_Hs_Homemade_Air_Conditioner/</link>
<comments>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/Pete_Hs_Homemade_Air_Conditioner/</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:24:25 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Shows you how to build your own air conditioner.  Pretty cool!<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NAFTA could force Canada to sell water to the USA]]></title>
<link>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/NAFTA_could_force_Canada_to_sell_water_to_the_USA/</link>
<comments>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/NAFTA_could_force_Canada_to_sell_water_to_the_USA/</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:06:22 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Fuel Ghoul is drowning in water disputes this summer!  First it was the lunacy of letting Coke and Pepsi bottle our public water, and now its become clear that the US government is plotting to captur<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Researchers Hope Virtual Reality Can Help To Prevent Wildfires]]></title>
<link>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/Researchers_Hope_Virtual_Reality_Can_Help_To_Prevent_Wildfires/</link>
<comments>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/Researchers_Hope_Virtual_Reality_Can_Help_To_Prevent_Wildfires/</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:04:13 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The UCF research team is developing an hourlong interactive simulation of a wildfire. Participants will decide whether or not to invest in prescribed burns and fire insurance over a 30-year span. Eac<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Green is not a color: Baking Soda I love You! So cheap, so green]]></title>
<link>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/Green_is_not_a_color_Baking_Soda_I_love_You_So_cheap_so_green/</link>
<comments>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/Green_is_not_a_color_Baking_Soda_I_love_You_So_cheap_so_green/</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:11:30 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Since I've started using baking soda for my home cleaning I practically spend no money for cleaning products. If you buy on bulk, it gets almost ridiculous how cheap it can be compared to how much m<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bush pushes new climate change plan]]></title>
<link>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/Bush_pushes_new_climate_change_plan-1/</link>
<comments>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/Bush_pushes_new_climate_change_plan-1/</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2007 22:13:10 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[US President George W. Bush said Thursday he would urge major industrialized nations at a summit next week to join a new global framework for fightin<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[UN: Climate making forest fires bigger]]></title>
<link>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/UN_Climate_making_forest_fires_bigger-1/</link>
<comments>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/UN_Climate_making_forest_fires_bigger-1/</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2007 22:13:10 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Climate change is making forest fires around the world bigger and more intense, increasing the threat to people and the environment and costing count<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[US to make counter-proposal on climate change]]></title>
<link>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/US_to_make_counter-proposal_on_climate_change-1/</link>
<comments>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/US_to_make_counter-proposal_on_climate_change-1/</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 11:15:15 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[AFP - The United States will call at the upcoming G8 summit for a new accord on climate change that binds only the countries that contribute most to <br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[HSBC launches 'green task force' on climate change]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 11:15:15 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Global banking giant HSBC donated 50 million pounds (73.5 million euros, 98.8 million dollars) Wednesday to set up a &quot;green task force&quot; to tackle c<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate change seen as greatest threat to Pacific islands]]></title>
<link>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/Climate_change_seen_as_greatest_threat_to_Pacific_islands-1/</link>
<comments>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/Climate_change_seen_as_greatest_threat_to_Pacific_islands-1/</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 22:11:54 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Climate change is the biggest threat facing low-lying islands in the Pacific Ocean, a conference of regional agriculture ministers in the Marshall Is<br/><br/>19 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[U.S. rejects EU emission reductions]]></title>
<link>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/U-S-_rejects_EU_emission_reductions-2/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 22:11:54 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The United States rejects the European Union's all-encompassing target on reduction of carbon emissions, President Bush's environmental adviser sai<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Earthquake Swarm Hits Yellowstone]]></title>
<link>http://www.scicastlive.com/Earth_Environment/Earthquake_Swarm_Hits_Yellowstone/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 20:50:53 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Yellowstone region is an ancient supervolcano that will one day erupt again, scientists say. It'll be a colossal event that destroys life for hun<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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