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Beijing Olympics in path of problems.
For a nation that desperately wants to get the Olympics right, many things are going wrong.
Categories: Environmental Health
Exxon Valdez ruling worries environmental watchdogs.
Will the U.S. Supreme Court decision to slash the punitive damages award in the Exxon Valdez case embolden oil companies to take shortcuts that put the environment at risk?
Categories: Environmental Health
Panel seeks green justice.
The poor are more likely to live in neighborhoods grappling with pollution, but less likely to have the political clout to make things better; in NY, the governor's office is trying to do something.
Categories: Environmental Health
Most urgent hurricane threat? Overdevelopment, not global warming.
Amid the whirlwind of debate, most scientists agree on the most urgent hurricane threat, and it's not global warming.
Categories: Environmental Health
Habitat turns its homes green.
Green houses typically cost more at the onset of construction because special products and techniques must be incorporated into the buildings, so the labor and materials costs add expenses.
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Water, water everywhere: How Moncton got its pure back.
Saint John is in the middle of a clean water crisis. With three boil orders so far in 2008, and plans to solve the longtime problem mired in politics, residents' health is potentially at risk each time they turn on their taps.
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Are B.C. residents ready to ditch bottled water?
Metro Vancouver hopes to get the taps flowing this fall with an aggressive campaign to encourage people to drink water from the tap rather than the bottle.
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Throwing less-is-more birthday parties.
Anxious about the economy, global warming and our national image as people who would rent a limo for a kid's party while a polar bear's ice floe melts, many are toning down the trappings of that classic annual ritual, the blowout birthday party.
Categories: Environmental Health
Don't run from the sun's Vitamin D benefits, experts say.
Here's a worry to cloud your carefree Fourth of July weekend fun: Is that sunblock you're slathering on to protect you from skin cancer actually making you prone to other diseases from a shortage of Vitamin D?
Categories: Environmental Health
Climate change brings jellyfish plague to Europe's beaches.
Jellyfish are taking over Europe's favorite swimming spots in increasing numbers. Scientists blame climate change and overfishing for the proliferation of the stinging nuisance.
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Residents call for investigation at ball fields.
Concerns about dust and truck traffic from a large demolition company possibly harming children playing at nearby ball fields could prompt a state examination of land use around the athletic complex.
Categories: Environmental Health
River towns rebound.
Development plans from Garfield and Elmwood Park to Lyndhurst and East Rutherford show signs that the long-suffering Passaic River is making a comeback.
Categories: Environmental Health
Residents call for investigation at ball fields.
Concerns about dust and truck traffic from a large demolition company possibly harming children playing at nearby ball fields could prompt a state examination of land use around the athletic complex.
Categories: Environmental Health
Under fire.
From the Rocky Mountains to the coast of California, wildfires are burning bigger, hotter, and closer to home. Why is the West ablaze?
Categories: Environmental Health
Wind is the wild card in Goleta fire.
Because of the fire's proximity to populated areas, officials made the Gap fire, near Goleta, the state's top priority among the 335 wildfires burning across California.
Categories: Environmental Health
Proposed Nevada water pipeline project imperils communities, lifestyles.
The two driest states in the nation are in a quiet standoff, fitfully negotiating or scuffing lines in the sand.
Categories: Environmental Health
Tofu 'may raise risk of dementia'.
Eating high levels of some soy products - including tofu - may raise the risk of memory loss, research suggests.
Categories: Environmental Health
Environmentalists gird for battle with Bush over rule changes.
Environmentalists are bracing for a final battle with the Bush administration over its efforts to weaken clean water, air and toxic waste regulations before a new president moves into the White House.
Categories: Environmental Health
Lead damages lawsuit settled.
One of Baltimore's biggest ground rent owners has agreed to a $1.53 million settlement of a lawsuit that accused him of living lavishly from ground-rent income, while claiming he was too poor to compensate former tenants harmed by exposure to lead paint.
Categories: Environmental Health
Indigenous people ask G8 for climate talk inclusion.
Indigenous communities from around the world urged G8 rich nations on Friday to help them participate in global climate change talks, saying they contributed least to but are most affected by global warming.
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