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The Underlying Tragedy

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On Oct. 17, 1989, a major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 struck the Bay Area in Northern California. Sixty-three people were killed. This week, a major earthquake, also measuring a magnitude of 7.0, struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The Red Cross estimates that between 45,000 and 50,000 people have died.
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When an Electric Car Dies, What Will Happen to the Battery?

In the race to put 1 million plug-in hybrid electric vehicles on U.S. roads by 2015, another challenge awaits on the other side of the finish line: recycling all of those batteries.

China Racing Ahead of U.S. in the Drive to Go Solar

“I don’t see Europe or the United States becoming major producers of solar products — they’ll be consumers,”

The Earth Is Warming? Adjust the Thermostat

There are still plenty of skeptics, but even they have started calling for more research into climate engineering.

Ocean Rescue

Most of the world’s important commercial fish species have been declining for years. Nearly one-fourth are unable, essentially, to reproduce.. American fisheries are in better shape than most but not by much.
The White House seems prepared to give this issue high priority. George W. Bush, though more sensitive to marine issues than other environmental problems, [...]