Environment
Brown Revolution: Preserving soil quality by changing grazing patterns
The brown revolution is about what the plants are planted in (soil) and not the plants themselves. Ranchers say they can make their land usable longer by mimicking natural livestock patterns.
VIDEO: Celebrity Canadian bear shot by wildlife officials
Jeanie, a famous bear with distinct markings, was shot and killed in Whistler, Canada, last week after becoming too aggressive toward humans....
EPA under fire from right, left and middle
With proposed rules tighter than they are now but not as tight as some environmentalists would like them to be, the Environmental Protection Agency is taking fire from those on all sides of the political spectrum....
Famous tree-lined French Canal du Midi in danger of losing all its trees
The 42,000 plane trees lining France's historic Canal du Midi are being felled because of a fungus brought to Europe by US soldiers in World War II. Will the planes that decorate the streets of cities such as Paris and London share the same fate? ...
Boston man launches urban composting program
Andy Brook couldn't find a job so he created his own — and he's helping his neighbors too. He created an urban composting program to help city dwellers compost their food waste....
Critical moments for sinking freighter off New Zealand
The freighter that hit a reef off the coast of New Zealand is in danger of causing even greater damage after bad weather caused off-loading operations to be suspended....
Shark tourism draws millions of dollars, thousands of tourists to Bahamas
With shark populations threatened around the world, the Bahamas has become a sort of sanctuary for the creatures. And it's also become a beacon for people who want to get up-close with the powerful creatures....
Endangered birds survive hurricanes during migration, only to be killed by hunters
A pair of whimbrels had survived a hurricane and had nearly completed their lengthy, 3,000 mile migration when they were shot from the sky by hunters in the Caribbean country of Guadeloupe....
VIDEO: Netherlands company taking car recycling to the next level
A Netherlands company, ARN Recycling, has built a new recycling plant that will allow the to process cars to the point that upwards of 90 percent of it can be reused....
Containers with toxic cargo spill into ocean off New Zealand
Problems are escalating for a cargo ship that has been dumping oil into the ocean for days. The severely listing ship is now dumping toxic cargo containers into the ocean and they heading for shore....
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Womprat (20 May, 2013 02:50:44)There were no swamp rats. There were Womprats, though.
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My Other Car's the Tardis (20 May, 2013 11:37:03)I think you dropped a letter in the album's title: "Ela" is "she"--not "he"--in Portuguese.