Tag: environment
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June 25, 2009 06:12 PM EDT --
Vultures and ticks, jellyfish and slugs. We’ll look at the gritty, slimy life cycles of revolting creatures with gardener-journalist Constance Casey.
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Constance Casey is a former . . .
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July 07, 2008 03:16 PM EDT --
7/7/08's On Point program about community efforts to cut carbon emissions is inspiring. It is great to hear that an entire community of 4500 people can become carbon-neutral, and I look forward to . . .
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May 02, 2007 10:05 AM EDT --
They sound like heaven, but more and more of the world is becoming a challenging hell for the world's most beautiful songbirds.
Now, biologists find that the realm of Scarlet Tanagers and Indigo Buntings, . . .
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May 10, 2007 09:48 AM EDT --
New York Times writer Natalie Angier is a champion for science. She has written about polar bears, cheetahs, lions, tigers and pit vipers. She's written about the science of empathy, altruism, why . . .
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June 05, 2007 03:49 PM EDT --
For most of his presidency, George W. Bush has famously doubted and dodged on global warming. Now, just in time to shake up allies in Europe, he’s out with a big plan on climate change that would . . .
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July 03, 2007 11:15 AM EDT --
How thirsty is America for bottled water? Pretty darned thirsty.
Every week of the year we now move a billion bottles of water from ground to gullet in ships and trains and trucks. That's the equivalent . . .
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April 25, 2007 08:39 AM EDT --
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said last wekeend he's going to make the Big Apple radically green by 2030.
Today On Point discussed how US cities are helping out on the environment . . .
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April 13, 2009 09:36 PM EDT --
We're heading into the woods to look at logging today and Jack McEnany's new book "Brush Cat."
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Jack McEnany , author of “Brush Cat: On Trees, The Wood Economy, . . .
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October 13, 2008 11:12 PM EDT --
Writer Peter Matthiessen. (AP)
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Thirty years ago, in the heart of the American century, novelist and nature writer Peter Matthiessen took Americans where few, maybe . . .
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June 19, 2008 10:27 AM EDT --
His father was against it. So was his brother, Florida Governor Jeb Bush. So was he. But yesterday in the Rose Garden, with four-dollar gas at the pump, US President George W. Bush said: . . .
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June 20, 2007 10:32 AM EDT --
Right across the planet, good fresh water supplies are under pressure. In America's West and Southwest, the combination of drought and booming population growth have made that pressure intense.
As . . .
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August 15, 2007 11:48 AM EDT --
In the storybook, when little Heidi got sick, she went to the countryside to recover -- sunshine and meadows. That's where health, and the healthy life, were: in the tidy suburbs and the rosy-cheeked, . . .
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May 13, 2008 10:48 AM EDT --
Cyclone Nargis may have killed 100,000 in Myanmar's Irriwaddy Delta. Missouri, Oklahoma and GeorgiaUS this year. Many can't help asking if this is global warming's not-so-invisible . . .
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July 22, 2008 11:02 AM EDT --
If you've got a lawn or a neighbor with a lawn, a lawn mower is probably your weekend soundtrack. A small price to pay, along with the $45 billion a year Americans spend on landscaping, to keep . . .
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August 16, 2007 10:52 AM EDT --
It’s been a summer of violent and gut-wrenching crime reports in America. From execution-style shootings in Newark to New Orleans and Oakland and home invasion in the leafy suburbs of Connecticut, . . .
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November 29, 2007 11:29 AM EST --
Birdwatching is big. A shotgun and bird-stuffing operation in the early 1800’s, it has grown into a recreational sport that is all but mainstream today, bringing millions of Americans to parks and . . .
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March 24, 2009 10:55 AM EDT --
Large windmills and solar panels are seen in Atlantic City in October 2008. (AP)
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One year ago, gasoline prices were soaring toward four dollars a gallon . . .
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April 20, 2009 09:36 PM EDT --
President-elect Barack Obama, right, listens as the nominee of a new policy council to coordinate climate, environment and energy issues Carol Browner addresses the media at a news conference in Chicago, . . .
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April 23, 2009 10:48 PM EDT --
President Barack Obama speaks at the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Va., Monday, April 20, 2009. (AP)
The torture debate grows red hot. The Taliban advance in Pakistan. Craigslist under . . .
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July 18, 2007 02:59 PM EDT --
Rivers may be made for swimming, but Americans haven’t done much of that in a long time -- too dirty, too scary.
Akiko Busch was facing milestones and loss and change. She walked down to the nearest . . .
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