Tag: Environment
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Chinese earthquake death roll rises to 10,000
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
More than 12,000 are dead in the Sichuan province alone in the 7.9 earthquake that struck southwestern China yesterday. In Mianzhu, not far from the center of the quake officials believe over 18,000 people are buried in one city.
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Guest blogger Vincent Williams: The end of the world... yawn
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
The world is looking like it’s about to end at any moment, there’s no zeitgeist that seems to suggest anyone is that worried. What’s the deal with that?
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The latest from Myanmar in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis
Monday, May 12, 2008
Early this morning, the first U.S. plane carrying aid landed in Yangon. It's a rare move for the ruling junta, which has resisted offers for military aid, to allow the plane to land. It carries supplies like blankets and drinking water... but no aid workers.
Peter Popham, roving foreign correspondent for The Independent, has been tracking the latest.
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A first report following China's earthquake
Monday, May 12, 2008
State media is reporting a death toll of up to 5,000 following an 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck central China. BBC reporter Quentin Somerville provides an update.
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Question of the day: What’s on your personal endangered list?
Monday, May 12, 2008
The polar bear could be declared an endangered species within a few days. But we want to know what’s on your personal endangered list. Sleep? Reading? Time with the kids? Time away from the kids?
Leave your comment by clicking "get in the mix", by emailing mytake@thetakeaway.org, or by calling our SpinVox line at 1-877-8-MY-TAKE. Tune in Tuesday morning to hear what others had to say.
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The struggle to deliver aid to Burma
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Twenty-two thousand people are dead. Forty-one thousand are missing. And the cyclone that roared through Myanmar (Burma) on Saturday has affected 24 million people. Aid organizations are starting the difficult process of helping.
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The Burmese cyclone touches a restaurant in Philadelphia
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Burmese communities in the United States have been following the aftermath of the cyclone closely. The Takeaway talks with Mya Htay, who works at Rangoon Burmese Restaurant in Philadelphia. Her mother is one of the restaurant's three co-owners, and the staff has been trying to cope with trauma and uncertainty this week.
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Myanmar aid groups face steep challenges
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Agencies are struggling to provide humanitarian aid to hundreds of thousands of people left vulnerable after Cyclone Nargis roared through Myanmar (Burma) on Saturday.
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There will be gas: microbes that gobble up heavy oil and spit out natural gas
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
This summer, British and Canadian researchers plan to test new technology for releasing previously unrecoverable energy trapped in heavy oil deposits. It works by stimulating tiny microbes to chew up the sticky, tar-like heavy oil and metabolize it into natural gas.
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Food for tomorrow's table: Two unlikely marriages
Thursday, May 01, 2008
Guests: Pamela Ronald and Raoul Adamchak
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Shock and oil
Monday, April 28, 2008
Lisa Margonelli says this could be a day we all remember, when oil finally spikes to a price that makes us change our behavior.
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Guest blogger Lisa Margonelli: A short history of the future of British oil
Monday, April 28, 2008
Sign up here to join Harvard's oil crisis simulation, April 28, 2008.
In 1988 I drove more than a thousand miles on a whim-fueled road trip to see an ichthysaur skeleton. The dirt cheap gas that enabled this ridiculous and ultimately unsuccessful project (the ichthysaur was closed when I got there) was partly and indirectly provided by the Forties Pipeline in the UK's North Sea, which was just closed by a strike at a Scottish refinery.
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Betting on the oil markets
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
The last time that we saw gas prices rising this quickly was in the 1970s, when Americans responded by cutting their gas use by 30 percent.
Lisa Margonelli, author of "Oil on the Brain: Adventures from Pump to Pipeline," says the high price of oil is, in part, driven by one group of people that surprised us: oil speculators.
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Underreported: Update on Newtown Creek Oil Spill
Thursday, September 20, 2007
The oil spill in Newtown Creek in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, is the largest in the country. The Environmental Protection Agency has just released a study that found the spill may be much larger than was originally reported, and that the oil may still be seeping into the waterway. Basil Seggos, Legal ...