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Five marine turtles - four green and one hawksbill - in Kenya’s Kiunga Marine National Reserve have been tagged with satellite tracking devices in an attempt to learn more about their ecology. To improve current turtle conservation efforts WWF-Eastern Africa has started a turtle satellite tracking programme which will provide information on feeding, behaviour [...]

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You probably know that you should do what you can to reduce your carbon footprint - the greenhouse gas emissions produced by your lifestyle. After you've done that, you can negate what remains by supporting projects to reduce emissions elsewhere - that is, by purchasing "carbon offsets". This works because, from a global warming [...]

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A month ago, July unemployment, at 5.7 percent, was the highest in four years. The August numbers just came in, and they're even worse - 6.1 percent unemployment , the highest in five years. But as I wrote last month, there is a solution: the green economy. Jobs related to new energy technologies are [...]

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Have Hurricanes Gustav and Hanna gotten you thinking about the possible link between hurricanes and climate change? Check out our hurricane and clilmate change overview for the straight facts from EDF climate scientists. And Peter Black shares eye-opening maps over on ClimateAtlas. This post is by Sheryl Canter, an online writer and editorial manager [...]

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I live in New York City, and when I started riding my bike to work last year, I became acquainted firsthand with the obstacles to using this most efficient and green mode of transport. Here's the short list: No sheltered place to park my bike. No place to park my bike at all - [...]

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