April 19, 2013
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Today marks the fourth week of the cleanup in Mayflower, Arkansas, after the Exxon Mobil Pegasus pipeline ruptured spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into a neighborhood and wetland. Continue reading
Share on FacebookApril 12, 2013
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Two weeks ago today, Exxon Mobil’s Pegasus pipeline ruptured catastrophically, creating a 22-foot long gash that unleashed hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil and toxic chemicals. Here’s the latest news. Continue reading
Share on FacebookMarch 27, 2013
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The scale of this concentrating solar power plant is awe-inspiring. Hundreds of thousands of mirrors are used to focus solar energy unto giant towers, generating clean electricity via steam turbines. Continue reading
Share on FacebookMarch 5, 2013
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Alzheimer’s disease is the fastest growing threat to health in the US. HIV/AIDS and alcohol are severely eroding the health of Russians. Violence is claiming the lives of young men in large swaths of Latin America. Despite health gains in sub-Saharan A… Continue reading
Share on FacebookFebruary 28, 2013
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Studies screening the genome of hundreds of thousands of individuals (known as Genome-wide association studies or GWAS) have linked more than 100 regions in the genome to the risk of developing cardiovascular disease. Researchers are taking these resul… Continue reading
Share on FacebookFebruary 17, 2013
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As people move more often and become more urbanized, skin color — an adaptation that took hundreds of thousands of years to develop in humans — may lose some of its evolutionary advantage, according to an anthropologist. Continue reading
Share on FacebookFebruary 11, 2013
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Less sodium in the U.S. diet could save 280,000 to 500,000 lives over 10 years, according to new research in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension. Continue reading
Share on FacebookJanuary 23, 2013
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New research moves researchers closer to understanding and developing treatments for shock, sepsis and multiorgan failure. Collectively, these maladies represent a major unmet medical need: they are the number one cause of mortality in intensive care u… Continue reading
Share on FacebookJanuary 11, 2013
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An enzyme treatment which could neutralize the effects of lethal chemicals responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people across the world has been developed. Continue reading
Share on FacebookJune 24, 2012
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Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City
When 17-year-old student Brittany Trilford addressed the opening session of the Rio Earth Summit on Wednesday, she urged world leaders to take concrete action to protect the planet.
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March 16, 2011
by Valerie Jaffee
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As 78 million baby boomers draw closer to their 60s and 70s around the country, it won’t be only social security or the U.S. health system feeling the strain. This increasingly mature generation will also put at risk another fundamental of Americ… Continue reading
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