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The Morning Briefing: 01/08

Thu, Jan 08 2009 at 9:06 AM

A coal front moves into China, California's pelican grief worsens, Bush lets Obama take the wheel on fuel efficiency, light pollution sends animals mixed signals, and the New Jersey dolphins are dying off.

Last Call: 01/07

Wed, Jan 07 2009 at 6:44 PM

Six power plants die on the vine, Toyota denies solar-car plans, 10 extinct species that could be resurrected, how to green your blog, how to eat squirrel, and how sixth-century comets nearly wiped out life on Earth.

The Noon Digg: 01/07

Wed, Jan 07 2009 at 1:44 PM

Japanese whalers rebuff help from protestors, Brazil sends troops to the Amazon, how to stop meth pollution, 10 places already affected by climate change, and a rare sigh of relief from a polar bear.

The Morning Briefing: 01/07

Wed, Jan 07 2009 at 8:59 AM

Why Tennessee's coal-ash flood could be just the beginning, why the end could be near for McMansions, why Rio is walling off a rainforest, why Japan wants Australia to stop whaling activists, and why scientists are building car parts from coconuts.

Last Call: 01/06

Tue, Jan 06 2009 at 5:30 PM

Obama pages Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Bush makes reservations for sushi, Brits to get clean power from gas pipelines, an Antarctic glacier gets leaner, and Arctic polar bears get leaner and meaner.

The Noon Digg: 01/06

Tue, Jan 06 2009 at 12:07 PM

The lame duck and the sea, Sweden cuts costs and carbon with corpse heat, the mythical "flatulence tax," getting gas from seaweed, and fighting global warming with gigatons of seawater.

The Morning Briefing: 01/06

Tue, Jan 06 2009 at 9:08 AM

Bush goes blue, but still not a landlubber. Also, the U.K. strengthens its sea power, California's pelicans go crazy, Yellowstone's supervolcano rumbles ominously, and are LCDs the SUVs of TVs?

Last Call: 01/05

Mon, Jan 05 2009 at 5:57 PM

Will Obama offer some commuter stimulation? Will tool-wielding dolphins take over the world? Are seaweed and bacteria the future of transportation? Also, Bush bails out the Pacific Ocean, and conservationists sue to keep the EPA at bay.

The Noon Digg: 01/05

Mon, Jan 05 2009 at 12:28 PM

Residents slurry up and wait in Tennessee, lead poisons an African town, Arnold toots California's carbon-free horn, Vatican scientists warn of birth-control pollution, and a Stanford scientist calculates nuclear war's carbon footprint.

The Morning Briefing: 01/05

Mon, Jan 05 2009 at 9:03 AM

The Maldives' trash and Tennessee's ash, luring bees with trees, plugging up Smuggler's Gulch, NYC's urban turbines, computers and planned obsolescence.

Commenting (23)

And it's all just for keratin

Fri, Mar 29 2013 at 2:31 PM

And it's all just for keratin. Poachers might as well scour the globe for toenails and hair clippings.

Thanks for the heads up, Juli

Thu, Jan 03 2013 at 6:50 PM

Thanks for the heads up, Juli. I've reworded that paragraph to make it a little clearer.

That's true, Norma. The Mayan

Tue, Dec 11 2012 at 11:47 AM

That's true, Norma. The Mayan calendar doesn't predict an apocalypse. I used the word "myth" here to mean "a false or unfounded notion," as in: "It's a widespread myth that the Mayan calendar predicts an apocalypse."

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