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Environmentalists Push For Coal-Ash Regulation
Originally Published by Truthout - environment
– In what promises to be a contentious, high-profile series of debates, the forces of environmental protection will be lining up against those of the electric power industry over the future status of coal-ash.
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March 31st, 2008
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Fresh Air for Sale in Hong Kong
Originally Published by NY Times
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March 31st, 2008
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NASA Earth Scientists Advance Space Archaeology
Originally Published by NASA Earth Observatory
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March 31st, 2008
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Killer space blast ‘off the hook’
Originally Published by BBC News - Science & Environment
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March 31st, 2008
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Mataiva Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago, South Pacific Ocean
Originally Published by NASA Earth Observatory
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March 31st, 2008
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Fire Cloud over Northern Russia
Originally Published by NASA Earth Observatory
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March 31st, 2008
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Great Barrier Reef’s great-grandmother is unearthed
Originally Published by New Scientist
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March 31st, 2008
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Gray wolf back on protect list in Mont. and Idaho, to ranchers and hunters ire
Originally Published by Washington Post
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March 31st, 2008
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Brazil green light for Amazon dam
Originally Published by BBC News - Science & Environment
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March 31st, 2008
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Orbital Sunrise
The Expedition 24 crew on the International Space Station photographed this image of polar mesospheric clouds illuminated by an orbital sunrise. Polar mesospheric, or noctilucent ("night shining"), clouds usually are seen at twilight, following the setting of the sun below the horizon and darkening of Earth's surface. Occasionally the station's orbital track becomes nearly parallel to Earth's day/night terminator for a time, allowing the clouds to be visible to the crew at times other than the usual twilight because of the station's altitude. This photograph shows polar mesospheric clouds illuminated by the rising, rather than setting, sun at center right. Low clouds on the horizon appear yellow and orange, while higher clouds and aerosols are illuminated a brilliant white. Polar mesospheric clouds appear as light blue ribbons extending across the top of the image. The station was located over the Greek island of Kos in the Aegean Sea (near the southwestern coastline of Turkey) when the image was taken at approximately midnight local time. The orbital complex was tracking northeastward, nearly parallel to the terminator, making it possible to observe an apparent "sunrise" located almost due north. A similar unusual alignment of the ISS orbit track, terminator position and seasonal position of Earth's orbit around the sun allowed for this striking imagery of over the Southern Hemisphere. Image Credit: NASA
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