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Minnesota Investigates Mystery Moose Decline

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, February 8, 2013 (ENS) – Moose in Minnesota are dying and the reasons are a mystery to state wildlife officials. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources says since 2010, the moose population has declined 52 percent. […]

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Energy

Biodiesel Fuels ‘A New American Economy’

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, February 8, 2013 (ENS) – The biodiesel industry “is helping create “a new dynamic in America,” U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told a packed audience at the 20th anniversary National Biodiesel Board Conference & Expo today in Las Vegas. […]

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Air/Climate

Waste Heat From Cities Has Global Climate Effects

SAN DIEGO, California, February 5, 2013 (ENS) – The waste heat generated by everyday energy consumption in urban areas is influencing major atmospheric circulation systems and causing continental-scale surface warming in high latitudes, new research has found. […]

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Sea Shepherd Australia Thwarts Japanese Whalers

HOBART, Tasmania, Australia, February 4, 2013 (ENS) – The month of January, usually the prime whale catching month for the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean, has come and gone without the death of a single whale, says Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Australia Director Jeff Hansen. […]

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Green Car Awards Go to Mazda, Ford

WASHINGTON, DC, February 4, 2013 (ENS) – Mazda North America was honored with the inaugural 2013 Green Car Technology Award, as presented by “Green Car Journal” on Thursday at the Washington Auto Show. The Ford C-MAX Energi was named the Green Car Vision Award winner. […]

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Food

California Eatery, Sushi Chefs Indicted for Selling Whale Meat

LOS ANGELES, California, February 1, 2013 (ENS) – A federal grand jury has returned a nine-count indictment that charges a now-shuttered Santa Monica sushi restaurant and two men who worked there as chefs with selling meat from endangered sei whales, which are protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. […]