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Solar projects in California desert could help state’s energy problems

$100 computer for children unveiled by UN

Nigeria has worst deforestation rate, FAO revises figures

Coral reefs decimated by 2050, Great Barrier Reef’s coral 95% dead

Genetic defenders protect crops from fungal disease

Global warming will reduce glaciers, water supply and affect millions of people

United States has 7th highest rate of primary forest loss

Five million tons of carbon dioxide successfully buried, DOE eyes Kyoto

Photovoltaic solar energy conversion can be cost-competitive by 2030

Australia’s freshwater ecosystems threatened by climate change

World deforestation rates and forest cover statistics, 2000-2005

Rain key to survival of baby lemurs

Elite women were alcoholic brewers in pre-Inca Peru

Plague could worsen with global warming

Massive climate change rocked ecosystems, animals 55 million years ago

Pictures from Peru

Americans eating more seafood than ever before — NOAA survey

Humans hunted giant lemurs to extinction

Brazliian environmentalist dies after self-immolation protest

Global deforestation rates fall, but area the size of Panama still disppears each year

Satellites map forests of Europe for Kyoto Protocol monitoring

People Eat More Stale Popcorn If Served In A Big Bucket

FAO deforestation stats are bogus

Demise of passenger pigeon linked to Lyme disease

Logging threatens Mayan ruin, forest in Guatemala

Lemur species named after British comedian

20% of the world’s mangroves lost since 1980

Climate change brought tropical forest to Wyoming

Army Corps of Engineers lacks plan for restoring coastal wetlands

Giant 1,200 pound ape lived alongside humans

Early warning system for earthquakes could save lives, predict quakes

Africa looks to build scientific expertise at Nairobi conference

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