Environment
Grocery prices soar as drought intensifies
July 16, 2012One hundred miles south of the Aldi's supermarket last Saturday, as far as you could see in the cornfields, the plants were wilting under a blazing sun.
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Canadian scientists protest firings, spending cuts
July 13, 2012Canada's government made excessive cuts in its environmental departments, resulting in the firing of many top scientists.
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Eisenberg, Humane Society on mistreatment of exotic birds
July 12, 2012The exotic pet trade is a blossoming, corrupt business that inadvertently creates a large percentage of mistreated parrots.
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New comic to dish the dirt on ocean pollution
July 11, 2012The Pacific Garbage Patch is an area of the Pacific Ocean filled with tons of plastic trash, which has increased exponentially.
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Study suggests fracking wastes could poison drinking water
July 10, 2012According to a new scientific study, salty fluids rich with minerals in parts of Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale are seeping thousands of feet upward, right into drinking water.
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