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On Tuesday, the Senate banking committee held a hearing on how the federal government can improve public transportation options. Federal funding is badly needed. Ridership is skyrocketing due to gas prices, while services are being cut due to lack of funds . A Wall Street Journal article on the issue summed up with a [...]

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Rome, Italy – Calling the management of the Mediterranean bluefin tuna fishery “an international disgrace”, a high level review has called for an immediate suspension of fishing. The still confidential review, commissioned last November by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), says the suspension should remain in force until the [...]

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Following the recent reports of polar bears swimming for their lives off Alaska, clear evidence has emerged in far-eastern Russia of how vanishing ice in the Arctic is having a catastrophic effect on walruses. Until recently scattered ice was usually present each summer in the Chukchi Sea, off the north-eastern extremity of Asia, and [...]

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An image of a second wild Borneo rhino has been captured by scientists in Malaysia using a motion-triggered camera. Only 25-50 Borneo rhinos, a subspecies of the critically endangered Sumatran rhino, are thought to exist. They are found in the interior Heart of Borneo forests of Sabah, Malaysia. It was just two years ago [...]

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U.S. oil companies already have permission to drill in millions of unexplored acres , but there is a push now to drill in one area where they don't have permission: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). A terrible idea, drilling in ANWR would: Not produce much oil. Not lower gas prices. Harm the environment. [...]

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