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The Energy Rush: Shell Arctic Ocean Drilling Stands to Open New Oil Frontier
Despite lively opposition, Shell will start testing wells in northern Alaska, in a moment of major promise and considerable danger.
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Dam Limits Loosened to Feed Grand Canyon
The Interior Department will allow periodic flow increases at the Glen Canyon Dam to help the Colorado River replenish sediment in downstream ecosystems.
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National Briefing | Midwest: Indiana: In Deal, BP Will Install Pollution Controls at Oil Refinery
The deal ends years of opposition that might have left BP unable to use $4 billion worth of new processing units being installed at Whiting that will allow it to run Canadian tar sands crude as early as next year.
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Gas Pipeline Beneath Hudson River Is Approved
The widely expected approval of a gas pipeline from New Jersey to Manhattan by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission came in a 4-to-0 decision.
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Relics With Much to Tell About Bird Diets May Be Lost
Fifteen glass jars of specimens and 230,000 notecards are all that remain of a far-reaching study of birds by the Agriculture Department at the turn of the 20th century. Even these appear doomed.
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Gregory Jaczko to Resign as N.R.C. Chairman After Stormy Tenure
Gregory B. Jaczko, who battled colleagues and Congress as chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, will step down as soon as a successor is confirmed.
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Observatory: Seal Tagging Yields Huge Set of Data in Northeastern Pacific
Tagging has yielded an enormous amount of information about feeding, migration and birth patterns of female elephant seals off the Northern California coast.
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Kakha Bendukidze Holds Fate of Gene-Engineered Salmon
AquaBounty Technologies, which wants to produce genetically engineered salmon, is reliant on its largest shareholder, Kakha Bendukidze.
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Green Blog: Tracking the Travels of Young Bluefin Tuna
Tags that transmit data reveal that bluefin tuna do not necessarily return to their birthplaces to spawn.
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Green Blog: On Our Radar: BP to Tame Refinery Flares
Federal regulators cited the company for repeatedly exceeding emissions limits on refinery flares that release harmful chemicals during malfunctions.
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Green Blog: A Pact on New York Watershed Discharges
New York officials say they have negotiated an agreement to alleviate muddy discharges in the Catskills that have angered Ulster County residents.
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Green Blog: Tremors of Anxiety Over Arctic Drilling
Local Inupiat worry about the possibility of an oil spill, harm to whales and a change in their way of life.
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Insurance Company Approved for Land Trusts
The Land Trust Alliance has won nonprofit status from the Internal Revenue Service for an insurance company it is creating.
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Low Natural Gas Prices Threaten Carbon Capture Projects
Cheap, plentiful natural gas provides utilities with little incentive to build coal-fired plants with a technology that traps carbon gas for storage or other uses.
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The Texas Tribune: Legislation Proposed to Extend Texas Helium Sales Deadline
Congress has proposed legislation to help avoid a worldwide helium shortage, and some 30 percent of the global supply comes from a plant northwest of Amarillo.
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Brazil?s President Faces Defining Decision Over Forest Bill
The bill awaiting action by President Dilma Rousseff would effectively give amnesty to landowners who illegally deforested areas before 2008.
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Boca Sanibeni Journal: Dam Project Would Displace Villages in Jungle Valley of Peru
A hydroelectric dam supported by the country?s president would send thousands of people to live elsewhere.
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Hawaii?s Beaches Are in Retreat, and Way of Life May Follow
Most beaches on the state?s three largest islands are eroding, and the erosion is likely to accelerate as sea levels rise, according to a new report.
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Observatory: Brittle Stars Put Their Best Foot Forward
Despite lacking bilateral symmetry, brittle stars, related to starfish, can choose one of their five limbs to be front-facing and use two others to move.
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San Francisco Journal: In San Francisco, Coyotes in Parks Are a Concern
The emergence in recent years of coyotes in the city?s parks and other places has raised doubts about whether the wild animals can coexist with the domesticated ones.
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National Briefing | Washington: NOAA Report Says Six Types of Fish Back to Healthy Levels
A record six populations of fish returned to healthy levels in 2011, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported to Congress on Monday.
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National Briefing | Washington: Ruling on West Virginia Mine Will Be Appealed
The Obama administration said Monday that it would appeal a ruling by a federal judge that the Environmental Protection Agency illegally vetoed a major coal mining project in West Virginia.
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South Kingstown Journal: In Rhode Island, Protecting a Shoreline and a Lifeline
Coastal erosion near Matunuck has imperiled seafront structures and threatened the only road that residents can use to get in and out.
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Solar Installers Offer Homeowners Deals, Gaining Converts
Installers, often working through big-box chains, are taking advantage of hefty tax breaks, creative financing and cheap Chinese-made panels to make solar power accessible to the mass market.
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Last Ones Left in Treece, Kan., a Toxic Town
Treece, Kan., has been torn down and may soon be erased from maps. But don?t tell that to the Busbys, who live there.
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Side Effects: The Ray and the Coconut: Tracing Life on Palmyra Atoll
Research that illuminated a delicate ecological chain of birds, trees, soil, plankton and manta rays inspires contemplation of the unknown circles of life that may be disrupted by human activity.
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Op-Ed Contributors: Eat Your Hake and Have It, Too
We can harvest a certain fraction of a fish population that has been overfished, if we allow for the natural processes of birth and growth to rebuild the stock.
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Dot Earth Blog: Brazil's New Leader Mulls Country's Forest Protections
Brazil's new leader faces a decision on forests laws that could have a huge impact on the Amazon.
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Dot Earth Blog: A Closer Look at Watts and Joules, Power and Energy
A clarification of the vital difference between energy and the process of putting it to use.
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Dot Earth Blog: On the Allure of Ostriches and New Paths in Climate Communication
An environmental communicator reacts to research showing the limits of traditional environmental messages.
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Scientist at Work Blog: In the Kipuka, Birds Take Shelter
Researchers travel to Hawaii to study how forest fragmentation caused by a series of 19th-century volcanic eruptions has shaped native bird communities.
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Scientist at Work Blog: More to Learn About Dolphin Whistles
Conversations with dolphin researchers in Sarasota Bay, Fla., reveal fundamental questions about signature whistles.
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Scientist at Work Blog: Don't Feed Wild Dolphins (Even if They Beg)
Human feeding of wild dolphins brings them into contact with anglers and their gear, and leads to increases in serious dolphin injuries and deaths.
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Lens Blog: Joel Sartore's Photos of Biodiversity Across the United States
Even 20 years photographing animals couldn't have prepared Joel Sartore for some of the creatures he has encountered working on a series that aims to showcase biodiversity in the United States.
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WORLD: Damming the Amazon
Brazil is planning to build at least 20 hydroelectric dams in the Amazon region by 2020, but indigenous residents say they are threatened and so is the rain forest.
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In Borneo, a Safe Place for Orangutans
At Camp Leakey, one of three research outposts in Tanjung Puting National Park, Indonesia, semiwild orangutans living in the surrounding forest often drop by for bananas and company.
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