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AGRICULTURE: Free-Range Chicken More Disease-Prone?, Google Maps Car Hits a Deer, Records Entire Ordeal on Google Maps

ANIMAL WELFARE: At age 140, lobster to regain freedom, VIDEO: Bat Orphans Babied, Bottle-Fed, Ottawa boy’s invisible invention warns birds about deadly windows

ART: JR Finishes His Most Ambitious Project Yet In The Slums In Kibera, Kenya

BAILOUT: Tracking the $700 Billion Bailout

BIOMIMICRY: Carnivorous Domestic Entertainment Robots, Squid Teeth Inspire Handy Material

BUSHMEAT: Appetite for frogs’ legs harming wild populations

CARBON: Revealed: How The Times Got Confused About Google and The Tea Kettle

CLIMATE CHANGE: China dams reveal flaws in climate-change weapon, Global Warming: Tree Deaths Have Doubled Across The Western U.S.

COAL: Coal plant scrubber’s opponent: Ignore law, Coal Companies Spend Staggering Revenue on Advertising, Not Cleaner Technology or Safety, Giant Toxic Coal Ash Spill Threatens Animals

CORAL REEFS: Growing Taste for Reef Fish Sends Their Numbers Sinking

DEFORESTATION: California scouts logged in sensitive areas: Executives of the Boy Scouts of America in California have repeatedly conducted commercial logging on scout lands in environmentally sensitive areas, sometimes drawing sharp criticism from regulators and environmentalists.

DROUGHT: Snow study shows California faces historic drought

ELECTRIC CAR: Vehicle To Grid: Your Electric Car As A Backup Power Source, Electric car project to create 70 jobs, Newark goes electric with grant for cars

ENDANGERED SPECIES: Rare Hispaniolan solenodon caught on film, VIDEO: Venomous “Giant Shrew” Caught on Film

ENERGY: More Computing, Less Power, Energy-guzzling plasma TVs will be banned in Brussels eco blitz

ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS PICKS: Environmental Issues Slide in Poll of Public’s Concerns

ETHANOL: Cellulosic Ethanol May Benefit Human Health And Help Slow Climate Change

EVOLUTION: Bird Song Discoveries May Lead To Refinement Of Darwinian Theory, Pregnant fossil shows how early whales evolved, Early Whales Gave Birth on Land, Fossils Reveal, Fruit Flies Put Evolution in Reverse, Oldest Shark Braincase Shakes Up Vertebrate Evolution, Fastest Evolving Birds Uncovered, How Do Species Evolve?

FINANCIAL CRISIS: Fight building over judges redoing mortgages

FISHERIES: Fisheries regulators plea with federal judge to reconsider his suspension of stringent commercial fishing regulations: Federal regulators ask judge to reconsider ruling against stringent directives

FORESTS: New Jungles Prompt a Debate on Rain Forests, Planting Trees Saves Cash, Research Confirms, Warming Doubles Tree Deaths in Western U.S., DR Congo cancels timber contracts: The Democratic Republic of Congo government has cancelled nearly 60% of timber contracts in the world’s second-largest tropical rainforest.: It follows a six-month review of 156 logging deals aimed at stamping out corruption in the sector and enforcing legal and environmental standards.

FUEL EFFICIENCY STANDARDS: Obama moves to tighten fuel efficiency & emissions standards

GEORGE W. BUSH: 11 Eleventh-Hour Bush Environmental Rule Changes

GLACIAL MELTING: Many glaciers will disappear by middle of century and add to rising sea levels, expert warns

GREEN: Design Contest Announced: Green Patriot Posters, Human Hair: The Next Green Fertilizer?, Europe’s Grass-Lined Green Railways = Good Urban Design

INVASIVE SPECIES: Effort to Remove Species Creates More Problems

LITHIUM: In Bolivia, a Tight Grip on the Next Big Resource

MARINE MAMMALS: Stranded whale euthanized on remote N.C. beach, Wannamaker: Navy wrongs right whales, Is Changing Climate Keeping Whales In the Gulf of Maine?, Right Whale, Newborn Spotted Off Daytona Beach, VIDEO: 50 Sperm Whales Beached

MOUNTAIN GORILLAS: Congo Warlord’s Arrest Puts Gorillas’ Future in Turmoil

NATURE: Bizarre Creatures, Owl Cam: Still waiting for Mama Owl!, Three Strange Fish, One Species

NEW SPECIES: Newly discovered catfish species climbs rocks: Fish’s pelvic fin decouples from body and moves backward and forward, Brilliant New Frog, Salamander Species Found

OBAMA: Run DC

OCEANS: Time to dive into Google Ocean?

OIL: Map Reveals a Web of Oil Imports: A new interactive map unveils the details of an oil addiction.

PAPER: Are Paperless Receipts the Future in Retail?

PHENOMENA: Ice one! Walker discovers 10ft-wide, spinning frozen arctic circle in British waters for the first time

PHEV: Texas Governor Proposes $5k/Volt Tax Credit‏

POLLUTION: Reducing Pollution Extends Life Expectancy, Researchers find traces of mercury in high-fructose corn syrup: A swig of soda or bite of a candy bar might be sweet, but a new study suggests that food made with corn syrup also could be delivering tiny doses of toxic mercury., World’s highest drug levels entering India stream: When researchers analyzed vials of treated wastewater taken from a plant where about 90 Indian drug factories dump their residues, they were shocked. Enough of a single, powerful antibiotic was being spewed into one stream each day to treat every person in a city of 90,000.

POPULATION GROWTH: Mother of octuplets not getting a lot of support, AP reports

RECYCLING: How can I reuse or recycle metal tubing?, Drop Off Otherwise Un-Recyclable #5 Plastic at Whole Foods: Preserve’s new ‘Gimme 5′ program makes recycling #5s possible and convenient., Incredible Hotel Made From Salvaged Wine Casks, PET Project: Coke’s Big Recycling Plant

REDISCOVERED SPECIES: Life After Death – some species thought to be extinct are being rediscovered

RENEWABLE ENERGY: White House Solar Panels: What Ever Happened To Carter’s Solar Thermal Water Heater? (VIDEO), First Time Ever: Renewable Energy Accounts for Largest Share of Annual Increase in US Electrical Capacity

SCIENCE: Liquid Wood Is Plastic of Tomorrow, Say Scientists: Plastic was one of the great innovations of the 20th century, but German scientists believe a new invention, liquid wood, could soon supplant the chemical in terms of everyday usefulness.

SEA LEVEL RISE: Sea levels rising at nearly double previous estimates due to global warming

SLOW PYROLYSIS: Pyrolysis, SynGass, Carbon Sequestration and BioChar

SOLAR: Solar-Powered Data Center’s Green Inaugural Ball, So what ever happened to the panels? It turns out that during President Reagan’s administration the solar hot water panels were removed from the White House in 1986 and placed in storage. In 1992, Unity College located the panels and transferred them from a General Services Administration warehouse to their campus in Maine. After restoration,16 panels provided their cafeteria with hot water for the next 12 years. In cooperation with Unity College, Google was able to bring one of these panels down to our Washington DC office for display throughout the next year.

SPACE: Fermi’s Paradox (i.e. Where are They?)

SURVIVAL: Pair Found Adrift in Icebox Credit Survival to Bird Spat

TERRITORIAL CLAIMS IN THE ARCTIC: Smaller And Smaller

TRANSPORTATION: The Largest Container Ship In The World. Truly Amazing…

VACATION: Isle Royale National Park

WASTE: As the economy slumps, so does trash, The Trash Was Historic, Too: Workers Pull an All-Nighter to Clear Spectators’ Detritus

WATER: Top 11 compounds in US drinking water

WETLANDS: Tropical Wetlands Sequester 80% More Carbon than Temperate Wetlands

WHALING: Iceland Pressed by Pro-Whaling Groups, The Cove: Sundance Film Exposes Japanese Dolphin Slaughter in Grisly Footage: 23,000 Dolphins are slaughtered each year in a hidden cove in Taiji, Japan. The Japanese government covers it up. No one could get in.

WILDLIFE CONTRABAND: Smuggler Caught With Heads of 353 African Gray Parrots: A new trade in parrot heads and tail feathers is adding to the pressure on the world’s wild population of African Grey Parrots, which is confined to the tropical forest area of West and Central Africa.

WIND POWER: Cape Cod Offshore Wind Farm Cleared for Take Off, Home Wind Turbines Prove Less Effective, Mexico fires up $550 million wind farm

ZOONOTIC DISEASES: Ebola may have passed from a pig to a human

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