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Greenhouse effect: demo in a bottle
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- Greenhouse Effect on Venus Space Today Online 2005
- The Fate of Easter Island NOVA 4/20/04
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- Greener, HFC-free refrigerator set to enter U.S. market in 2011 Washington Post 12/26/10
- EPA Approves Hydrocarbon Refrigerants for Commercial and Household Use Environment News Service 12/15/11
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- Should DDT Be Used to Combat Malaria? Scientific American 5/4/09
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- Global ecological footprints Scientific American, March 06
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- NZ flatulence tax outrages farmers BBC News 6/20/03
- Cow Power Could Generate Electricity For Millions ScienceDaily 7/25/08
- Dishes Still Dirty? Blame Phosphate-Free Detergent NPR 12/15/10
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- The Decline of Eastern Songbirds Birds of Stanford
- Intracellular symbioses in insects U. of York
- Parasite Infection May Benefit Multiple Sclerosis Patients ScienceDaily 1/18/07
- Wildland Fire in Yellowstone Yellowstone National Park 12/22/04
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- How Dangerous Is It to Use Cyanide to Catch Fish? Scientific American 8/10/11
- 'Eco-Friendly' Chilean Sea Bass May Not Be So Green ScienceNOW 8/22/11
- Farmed Salmon Decimating Wild Salmon Worldwide National Geographic News 2/12/08
- Farmed Salmon - Seafood Watch Monterey Bay Aquarium
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- Canada Water Week: discover our water footprint Walter & Duncan Gordon Foundation 3/19/12
- Water use: Shower vs. bath 4/02/09
- Reverse Osmosis Moves Forward. Environmental Health Perspectives Jan 2005
- Mitigation Banking Factsheet EPA 1/12/09
- Chicago-area wetland mitigation banks are bogged down Chicago Tribune 1/28/09
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- Native Plants and Streambank Stabilization Naperville Park District
- 2010 Gulf of Mexico undersea oil spill plumes doubled back USA Today 01/09/12
- Chicago takes the LEED in eco building Grist Magazine 9/9/10
- Illinois RiverWatch Citizen Scientist stream monitoring
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- Oil Without End? Revisionists say oil isn't a fossil fuel. CNNMoney 2/17/03
- ExxonMobil Oil and Gas Exploration Is Root Cause of Whale Deaths in Madagascar Huffington Post 9/26/13
- Oil & gas industry spills happen all the time CBS News 4/12/11
- Louisiana Seafood: In wake of BP spill and river diversions, oysters show strain 7/13/13
- Cuadrilla admits drilling caused Blackpool earthquakes The Telegraph 3/4/12
- Hydraulic Fracturing for Natural Gas Pollutes Water Wells Scientific American 5/9/11
- The Golden Age of Fracking in Europe and China Time 5/21/12
- Greenpeace slams Israeli firm for oil plan Jerusalem Post 1/04/12
- Energy sector taps bitumen, sticky rival to oil sands Business News Network 7/8/13
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- Milankovitch Cycles and Temperatures ClimateData
- Ice Core Data Help Solve a Global Warming Mystery Scientific American 3/1/13
- Ice core dating using stable isotope data University of Copenhagen
- Northwest Passage a rival to the Panama Canal? Nunatsiaq News 5/17/13
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- Radiation Protection: Radon EPA /13/13
- Radioactive Smoke: A Dangerous Isotope Lurks in Cigarettes Scientific American 1/5/11
- Fission Fragments HyperPhysics
- Nuclear Waste: Yucca Mountain’s Scrapped, So What Now? Wall Street Journal 2/26/09
- Greater Danger Lies in Spent Fuel Than in Reactors New York Times 3/17/11
- Nuclear Reprocessing: Dangerous, Dirty, and Expensive Union of Concerned Scientists 4/05/11
- Nuclear Power Reactors (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
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- Bats and Birds Face Serious Threats From Wind Energy New York Times 8/8/11
- Chicago Suburb Approves Nation's First Offshore Wind Farm AOL Real Estate 4/15/10
- Wind turbines stir up bad feelings, health concerns in DeKalb County Chicago Tribune 3/14/10
- Wind Energy Gets Away With Murder Forbes 9/22/13
- Whale-Inspired Wind Turbines MIT Technology Review 3/6/08
- Landscaping for an energy-efficient home South Dakota Public Utilities Commission
- Mirrors, not panels, hold key to solar energy future Greenbang 3/9/12
- Novel Solar Photovoltaic Cells Achieve Record Efficiency Scientific American 1/17/13
- Geothermal quake risks must be faced Nature 12/16/09
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- Ethanol, E85, Flex Fuel Discovery Channel 9/20/11
- Cellulosic Ethanol Industry Faces Big Challenges Technology Review 8/12/13
- Palm Oil & Biofuels Sumatran Orangutan Society
- Conservation Reserve Program: cropland & wetlands go hand in hand Ducks Unlimited
- Algae: Biofuel Of The Future? ScienceDaily 8/19/08
- Pond Scum Biodiesel Biodiesel 2/3/07
- Purple Bacteria Best for Harvesting Solar Energy ScienceDaily 5/5/10
- Surprising Findings On Hydrogen Production in Green Algae ScienceDaily 4/15/13
- Has the fuel cell car's time finally come? Fortune Magazine 8/15/13
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- The Garbage Barge No One Wanted greenopolis
- Chicago's blue bag recycling program: Garbage in, Garbage out Chicago Daily Observer 5/12/08
- Why Can't Chicago Recycle? Chicago Reader 7/22/10
- How to compost meat Clean Air Gardening
- Vermicomposting: Composting with Worms UNL Extension in Lancaster County September 08
- Is incineration holding back recycling? Guardian Environment Network 8/29/13
- Billionaires bankroll new space company for asteroid mining Seattle Times 4/24/12
- Kure Atoll Conservancy
- Freecycle: donate (and get) used stuff
- César Chávez Park built on landfill