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USA Today
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A powerful earthquake toppled drums of nuclear waste and triggered other problems at the world's biggest nuclear plant, raising the possibility of a second radioactive leak there, Japanese officials said Tuesday.
The earthquake Monday off the Japanes..
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Physorg
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Australia has announced plans to ban traditional light bulbs in a move Prime Minister John Howard called a practical step toward slowing climate change. Claiming a world first for a national government, Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull said incand..
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SF Gate
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Rakesh sits in a low crouch at the bottom of a 7-foot deep manhole, sloshing away in a swirl of human waste and sediment. Equipped with only a hoe and a steel bar, and dressed in loose purple underpants, Rakesh (who uses only one name) empties a thick bla..
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CNN
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When the average person contemplates the issues surrounding landfills, it is doubtful they give much consideration to the tons of food that fill them. Food biodegrades so where is the problem? The problem, environmentalists say is just that. When food rot..
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BBC News
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Victims of last year's toxic waste scandal in Ivory Coast have rejected the government's offer of compensation.
The families of 16 people who died when the waste was dumped in Abidjan were offered $200,000 (�100,000) each, with smaller sums to thousa..
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Seed Magazine
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South Korea Wednesday opened its first domestic-designed power plant using animal waste for fuel as part of efforts to provide a new source of evironmentally friendly energy, officials said.
The 30-kilowatt plant in Icheon, 60 kilometers (36 miles) sou..
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Reuters
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There are no garbage dumps here, no piles of rotting trash or oozing waste, no incinerators belching smoke. That's because all refuse generated by the U.S. Antarctic Program is shipped to the United States in an act of extreme recycling...
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