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Drugs in Our Drinking Water: You Heard It Here First

Comments (2) | March 10, 2008
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Now Arriving at JFK...
New York City's Jamaica Bay seems an unlikely haven for wildlife, sandwiched between John F. Kennedy International Airport and Coney Island. But when you're an American woodcock that's just flown up from Florida with plans to summer in the Northeast, the bay makes a pretty good place to rest your wings and pick up a mate, maybe even lay an egg or two.
Comments (0) | December 1, 2007
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Winning the 20-Year Battle of the Delaware
It was a sweltering late-summer day when Nick DiPasquale raced up the front lawn of the Delaware City nursing home where Grace Pierce-Beck lived. He had big news for the longtime environmental activist: after almost two decades, the fight that she had started against one of the world's most powerful oil companies had come to a close, and Pierce-Beck had won.
Comments (0) | December 1, 2007
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Still Dirty After All
Last year Peabody Energy sunk some of its record profits into a slick ad campaign to try to persuade Americans that coal isn't black, sooty, or environmentally destructive.
Comments (0) | December 1, 2006