This is rich.
Just about everyone claims the U.S. must urgently become “energy independent,” yet at the same time just about every policy that may actually serve that goal is met with environmentalist opposition. That contradiction has impeded the Bush Administration’s attempts to increase domestic energy production. And even the modest progress so far may be [...]

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So says Arctic watcher and University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign researcher, William L. Chapman.
“The melting rate during June and July this year was simply incredible,” Mr. Chapman said. “And then you’ve got this exposed black ocean soaking up sunlight and you wonder what, if anything, could cause it to reverse course.”
You.

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An international expedition in search for any remaining members of the Yangtze river dolphin has turned up nothing.
To blame for its demise is the increasing number of container ships that use the Yangtze, as well as the fishermen whose nets became an inadvertent hazard.
This is no ordinary extinction of the kind that occurs frequently in [...]

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