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Focus on Focus Earth: Grey Wolf Hunting Allowed!

13 Nov 2009  IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS |   COMMENTS

Wolves are either an endangered species or the enemy of farmers, depending on perspective. A hunting season was just reinstated for this once endangered animal, to no small opposition from conservationists. + READ MORE

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Focus on Focus Earth: The Endangered American Prairie Makes Environmentalists Out of Ranchers

13 Nov 2009  IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS |   COMMENTS

Usually at odds with each other, ranchers and conservationists have come together in the American west to conserve and revive the health of the American prairie. A respect for the land and the need to keep it healthy have created these unlikely but fruitful partnerships.+ READ MORE

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Focus on Focus Earth: Air Safety Vs. Geese, An Unfair Battle

13 Nov 2009  IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS |   COMMENTS

Ever since the US Airways scare in New York, geese have been blamed for endangering air safety. But it's not such a fair game. Killing geese (the wrong kind) while they're grounded is not the answer.+ READ MORE

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Focus on Focus Earth: Is Hollywood Really Going Green?

30 Oct 2009  IN FASHION & BEAUTY |   COMMENTS

Hollywood institutions are taking eco-friendly baby steps, with a few individuals making real strides for environment. But the entertainment industry on the whole has to do more than buy offsets before it can really call itself green.+ READ MORE

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Focus on Focus Earth: "24" Pledged to Go Green More Than A Year Ago; Is It Carbon Neutral Yet?

30 Oct 2009  IN WORK & CONNECT |   COMMENTS

Fox News announced more than a year ago that it would be carbon neutral by 2010, and 24 was the first show to live up to the goal. How'd it get there, and is the rest of the network on track? + READ MORE

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Focus on Focus Earth: Ed Norton Runs With Team Maasai For the NYC Marathon

30 Oct 2009  IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS |   COMMENTS

Ed Norton invited three of his Maasai friends to travel from Kenya to run with him in the NYC marathon (which he's never run before-and it's not easy, he's already having shin splints.). The cause? Conservation back home in Kenya, a nation famous for its runners. Norton first visited Kenya nearly...+ READ MORE

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Focus on Focus Earth: Climate Change Vs. Economics: What Determines How Infectious Diseases Spread?

16 Oct 2009  IN FOOD & HEALTH |   COMMENTS

While many climate change and public health specialists argue that climate change will enable infectious diseases to spread like they never have before, others disagree--with some saying that some infectious disease rates will even decline, and others taking the view that the spread (or control) of...+ READ MORE

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Focus on Focus Earth: Malaria in the U.S.? How Climate Change Could Be Disease's Best Friend

16 Oct 2009  IN FOOD & HEALTH |   COMMENTS

As the seasons change and temperatures rise due to climate change, infectious diseases could start to spread to new places, and faster, than we've known them to do in the past. Lyme disease spreading to Canada and Dengue to the U.S. are just the beginning.+ READ MORE

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Focus on Focus Earth: How Do You Fight Dengue Fever in a City With a 78% Infection Rate?

16 Oct 2009  IN TRAVEL & OUTDOORS |   COMMENTS

Matamoros, Mexico is facing an uphill battle against one of the world's worst insect-transmitted diseases, and the Texas border is not far away. How are officials there working to stop the disease from escalating within the town, and from spreading north?+ READ MORE

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Focus on Focus Earth: Add Disease Prevention to Border Security Needs

16 Oct 2009  IN FOOD & HEALTH |   COMMENTS

Infectious diseases could start to spread to new places, and faster, as temperatures rise. With Dengue on the verge of entering the U.S. and other diseases apt to spread in ways they haven't before, new techniques are needed to step up the fight of disease prevention.+ READ MORE

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Focus on Focus Earth: When Recycling Isn't (Necessarily) Green: the Nuclear Waste Issue

2 Oct 2009  IN TECH & TRANSPORT |   COMMENTS

France reprocesses its spent nuclear fuel; should we do the same? Both sides of the argument make a strong case for what they believe is the right answer. + READ MORE

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Focus on Focus Earth: Nuclear Power: Boost or Threat to National Security?

2 Oct 2009  IN TECH & TRANSPORT |   COMMENTS

To some, nuclear power is a clean source of energy that we must develop further if we are to move any closer to energy independence. To others, it's a recipe for disaster, either by accident, like the Three Mile Island disaster of 1979, or by design, if (or when) nuclear fuel gets into the wrong...+ READ MORE

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Focus on Focus Earth: Nuclear Power: Still a Controversy, After All These Years

2 Oct 2009  IN TECH & TRANSPORT |   COMMENTS

Nuclear power still fuels controversy nationwide, over whether it's the source of clean, renewable energy we need, or an invitation for disaster. + READ MORE

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Focus on Focus Earth Greenwashing: Know When a Company Is Green And When It's Just Good at Green Imaging?

18 Sep 2009  IN TECH & TRANSPORT |   COMMENTS

Corporations have a vested interest in painting over their non-green initiatives with a pseudo-green image.+ READ MORE

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Focus on Focus Earth: Can Children Solve the Environment Crisis?

4 Sep 2009  IN HOME & GARDEN |   COMMENTS

Having a child increases a parent's ecological footprint instantly, but if kids are trained right, they can become the environmental stewards that the current generation has so far failed to be.+ READ MORE

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