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Whole Foods Chain to Stop Use of Plastic Bags
By ANDREW MARTIN, The New York Times, January 23, 2008
The Whole Foods Market chain said Tuesday that it would stop offering plastic grocery bags, giving customers instead a choice between recycled paper or reusable bags.
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Europe, Cutting Biofuel Subsidies, Redirects Aid to Stress Greenest Options
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, The New York Times, January 22, 2008
Governments in Europe and elsewhere have begun rolling back generous, across-the-board subsidies for biofuels, acknowledging that the environmental benefits of these fuels have often been overstated.
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Birds in Great Salt Lake Felled by Cholera by the Thousands
By SANA KHALID, The New York Times, January 22, 2008
Some of the birds flew upside down or threw their heads back between their wings. Some fell out of the sky. Others tried to land a foot or more above the water, or swam in circles when they got there. And then they died.
The birds — eared grebes, ruddy ducks, California gulls and northern shovelers, about 15,000 in all — have been discovered over the past month on the shores of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. According to the United States Geological Survey’s National Wildlife Health Center, they died from avian cholera.
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High Mercury Levels Are Found in Tuna Sushi
By MARIAN BURROS, The New York Times, January 23, 2008
Recent laboratory tests found so much mercury in tuna sushi from 20 Manhattan stores and restaurants that at most of them, a regular diet of six pieces a week would exceed the levels considered acceptable by the Environmental Protection Agency.
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By ANDREW MARTIN, The New York Times, January 23, 2008
The Whole Foods Market chain said Tuesday that it would stop offering plastic grocery bags, giving customers instead a choice between recycled paper or reusable bags.
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Europe, Cutting Biofuel Subsidies, Redirects Aid to Stress Greenest Options
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, The New York Times, January 22, 2008
Governments in Europe and elsewhere have begun rolling back generous, across-the-board subsidies for biofuels, acknowledging that the environmental benefits of these fuels have often been overstated.
( Read More )
Birds in Great Salt Lake Felled by Cholera by the Thousands
By SANA KHALID, The New York Times, January 22, 2008
Some of the birds flew upside down or threw their heads back between their wings. Some fell out of the sky. Others tried to land a foot or more above the water, or swam in circles when they got there. And then they died.
The birds — eared grebes, ruddy ducks, California gulls and northern shovelers, about 15,000 in all — have been discovered over the past month on the shores of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. According to the United States Geological Survey’s National Wildlife Health Center, they died from avian cholera.
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High Mercury Levels Are Found in Tuna Sushi
By MARIAN BURROS, The New York Times, January 23, 2008
Recent laboratory tests found so much mercury in tuna sushi from 20 Manhattan stores and restaurants that at most of them, a regular diet of six pieces a week would exceed the levels considered acceptable by the Environmental Protection Agency.
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