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Can Smarter Growth Guide China’s Urban Building Boom?
The world has never seen anything like China’s dizzying urbanization boom, which has taken a heavy environmental toll. But efforts are now underway to start using principles of green design and smart growth to guide the nation’s future development.
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10 Feb 2012: Wastewater Reuse Could Increase U.S. Supplies 27 Percent, Report Says
10 Feb 2012: Early Humans Played Role in Central African Deforestation, Study Says
09 Feb 2012: Glaciers, Ice Caps Losing 150 Billion Tons of Ice Annually
09 Feb 2012: Largest Offshore Wind Farm Is Opened Off the British Coast
08 Feb 2012: Louisiana Report Urges State To Brace for 3 Feet of Sea Level Rise
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On the Road Back to Rio, Green Direction Has Been Lost
Twenty years ago, an historic environmental summit in Rio de Janeiro produced groundbreaking treaties and high hopes that pressing issues would be addressed. But as organizers prepare for the Rio+20 conference in June, there is little on the agenda to suggest any substantive action will be taken.
In Fast-Track Technology, Hope For a Second Green Revolution
With advances in a technique known as fast-track breeding, researchers are developing crops that can produce more and healthier food and can adapt and thrive as the climate shifts.
Mysteries of Killer Whales Uncovered in the Antarctic
Two of the world’s leading experts on the world’s top marine predator are now in Antarctica, tagging and photographing a creature whose remarkably cooperative hunting behavior and transmission of knowledge across generations may be rivaled only by humans.