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		<title>Girl Scouts Go Green</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Girl Scouts Forever Green Girl Scouts Forever Green Take Action Project is the signature project of Girl Scouts USA’s 100th year anniversary, and aims to provide a positive direction for the more than 3 million girls in the organization. Recent &#8230; <a href="http://www.ecology.com/2012/02/09/girl-scouts-green/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dolphin Bubble Rings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An Amazing Behavior Cetaceans—whales, dolphins, and porpoises—comprise a group of mammals that demonstrate some of the most extreme adaptations of the mammal world. These creatures possess a range of intricate and specialized adaptations to deal with the myriad physiological issues &#8230; <a href="http://www.ecology.com/2012/02/08/dolphin-bubble-rings/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>BP Reports $40B Profits; Braces for Deepwater Horizon Lawsuits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oil giant BP reported $40 billion in profits for 2011, following a $4 billion loss the previous year when its Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico. The 2010 accident killed 11 workers and spilled &#8230; <a href="http://www.ecology.com/2012/02/07/bp-40b-profits-deepwater-horizon-lawsuits/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>World Wetlands Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ancient Sahara Site Celebrated for World Wetlands Day Tunis, Tunisia:  A remote seasonal salt lake on the edge of the Sahara leads a list of 15 new Ramsar Wetlands of International Importance being declared in the country on World Wetlands Day, &#8230; <a href="http://www.ecology.com/2012/02/02/world-wetlands-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rare Earth Processing Plant Granted License in Malaysia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The government of Malaysia granted a temporary operating license for the world’s largest rare earths processing plant today, despite political opposition and public protests over potential health and environmental risks from radioactive waste. The $230 million plant, located in central &#8230; <a href="http://www.ecology.com/2012/02/01/rare-earth-plant-malaysia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Costa Concordia and the Plight of the Mediterranean Monk Seal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Plight of the Mediterranean Monk Seal The entire world watched as the Costa Concordia gradually sank beneath the waters of the Tuscan coast on January 13, 2012. The passengers were from a wide variety of countries, and as the &#8230; <a href="http://www.ecology.com/2012/02/01/costa-concordia-mediterranean-monk-seal/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Quantum Dots Increase Solar Cell Efficiency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Engineers at the University at Buffalo (UB), working with research arms of the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force, have developed a method for improving the efficiency of photovoltaic solar panels by up to 45 percent, according to a paper &#8230; <a href="http://www.ecology.com/2012/01/30/quantum-dots-solar-efficiency/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Week in Review &#124; 28-Jan-2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, Julie Janney took us to school &#8211; The Green School, that is &#8212; in her piece on Bali’s K-11 educational institute, where traditional curricula is blended with courses on environmentally friendly practices and sustainability. We traveled with Ace &#38; Ace &#8230; <a href="http://www.ecology.com/2012/01/29/week-review-jan-2012/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Who is Responsible for the State of the Environment?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last December, a camera crew from EcoHearth went to Wall Street in New York City and asked passersby, &#8220;Who is most responsible for the poor state of the environment: corporations, politicians or us as individuals?&#8221; It&#8217;s a more interesting question than &#8230; <a href="http://www.ecology.com/2012/01/27/who-is-responsible-environment/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>New, Interactive Map Showing U.S. Plant Hardiness Zones Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has released a new, interactive version of its Plant Hardiness Zone Map (PHZM) for gardeners, horticulturists and researchers, offering more accurate and granular information than the 1990 version it replaces. The new map divides &#8230; <a href="http://www.ecology.com/2012/01/26/plant-hardiness-map/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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