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Link Related to Canada in some say Wild burrowing owl who dug into recovery program welcomes 5 chicks
Environmental | 206962 hits | 6:21 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack
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A new nest of burrowing owls, hatched by an aggressive female who pushed her way into a recovery program for the endangered birds, has researchers hopeful for the fate of the species.
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20682
Link Related to Canada in some say Whale expert 'taken aback' by entangled right whale's rapid deterioration
Environmental | 206822 hits | 10:29 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
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An endangered North Atlantic right whale that's entangled in fishing gear in the Bay of Fundy may only survive a few months if rescue teams aren't able to find it, according to an expert.
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20751
Link Related to Canada in some say Fraser River is now so warm it may kill migrating sockeye salmon
Environmental | 207495 hits | 10:28 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
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Sockeye salmon are on a mission up B.C.'s Fraser River right now, swimming "a marathon a day" to reach the gravel beds where they'll lay eggs for the next generation.
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Link Related to Canada in some say Everyday plastics quietly pollute the air as they degrade: study
Environmental | 207184 hits | 6:55 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
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Researchers say plastic releases trace amounts of greenhouse gas when left out in the sun, no matter whether it's garbage in the ocean or a slide in somebody's back yard.
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20769
Link Related to Canada in some say Rare dolphin-whale hybrid spotted near Hawaii
Environmental | 207688 hits | 8:41 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
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Scientists from the Cascadia Research Collective have discovered a rare dolphin-whale hybrid off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii, according to a report published last week.
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20788
Climate taxes on agriculture could lead to more food insecurity than climate change itself
Environmental | 207875 hits | 5:40 PM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog
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New IIASA-led research has found that a single climate mitigation scheme applied to all sectors, such as a global carbon tax, could have a serious impact on agriculture and result in far more widespread hunger and food insecurity than the direct impacts o
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20780
Bear curiously finds itself stuck in Colorado Springs storm drain, requires rescue
Environmental | 207796 hits | 7:59 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
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It is not clear why he climbed into the storm drain, but officials believe he was attracted to the area because of a nearby dumpster filled with garbage and tree branches.
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20792
Link Related to Canada in some say New oilsands exploration tech leaves forest intact, which is good news for caribou
Environmental | 207920 hits | 9:11 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
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A new kind of seismic survey promises to leave only boot prints in the forest. And that's good news for species such as the threatened woodland caribou that live alongside the oilsands industry in northern Alberta.
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20811
Link Related to Canada in some say Worry about Iqaluit's imminent water shortage puts brewery on hold
Environmental | 208108 hits | 8:10 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
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Iqaluit's water supply could run out as early as this year. Now, the city is part of a task force that will need to ensure its only freshwater source, Lake Geraldine, has enough water by Oct. 1 to get residents and businesses through the winter.
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20779
Link Related to Canada in some say
Environmental | 207786 hits | 7:04 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
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"I was confused because I knew that fish with teeth are not normal. It was weird," the 11-year-old girl said.
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20754
Link Related to Canada in some say Scientists discover 'wonderland' of life on deep-sea mountains off B.C. coast
Environmental | 207543 hits | 10:09 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
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A previously undiscovered extinct volcano deep in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of B.C. is home to many species that have never been seen by humans before now.
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20774
Link Related to Canada in some say
Environmental | 207739 hits | 7:46 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
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Experts are repeating a frequent warning after a video taken Sunday near Jasper shows a woman being charged by a black bear along Highway 93.
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20741
Link Related to Canada in some say Baby bison in Banff make a comeback after 140 years
Environmental | 207414 hits | 7:03 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
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Three new furry beasts are the first “made in Banff” bison calves to be born in the Banff National Park backcountry in more than 140 years.
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20687
Link Related to Canada in some say Deformed Fish, Rabbits With Two Genitals: National Park Is Falling Apart
Environmental | 206865 hits | 6:38 PM on Monday | posted by BeaverFever
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A federal study found that out of 17 environmental indicators at Wood Buffalo National Park—the second-largest national park in the world—15 are declining.
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20687
Wave After Wave of Garbage Hits the Dominican Republic
Environmental | 206874 hits | 12:11 PM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
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Come for the beaches, say tourism ads for the Dominican Republic. But it has some beaches you might want to skip right now. The Caribbean nation is known for sapphire seas and ivory beaches, but it is grappling with waves of garbage washing up on it
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Link Related to Canada in some say Lawmakers, Lobbyists and the Administration Join Forces to Overhaul the Endangered Species Act
Environmental | 207894 hits | 5:32 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
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The Endangered Species Act, which for 45 years has safeguarded fragile wildlife while blocking ranching, logging and oil drilling on protected habitats, is coming under attack from lawmakers, the White House and industry on a scale not seen in decades, dr
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20811
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Environmental | 208105 hits | 7:26 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
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Yet another accurate model prediction—seasonal patterns around the world.
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20786
Link Related to Canada in some say B.C. wildfires trigger evacuations, highway closures in Okanagan
Environmental | 207863 hits | 10:18 AM on Thursday | posted by Strutz
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Wildfires in B.C.'s Okanagan Valley have forced the evacuation of dozens of properties and temporarily closed the main highway through the region on Wednesday.
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20680
Indonesia mob slaughters nearly 300 crocodiles in revenge killing
Environmental | 206798 hits | 1:00 PM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog
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Villagers slaughter the reptiles at a sanctuary in revenge for one of them killing a local.
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Link Related to Canada in some say Almost every part of Canada's largest national park deteriorating: federal study
Environmental | 207261 hits | 5:47 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
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An exhaustive federal study of Canada's largest national park concludes almost every aspect of its environment is deteriorating.
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20699
Link Related to Canada in some say Greenland community on high alert as massive iceberg looms
Environmental | 206986 hits | 7:04 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
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Innaarsuit, an island community in northwestern Greenland, is on standby for evacuation because a giant iceberg is looming over it.
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20678
Whale killing: Iceland accused of slaughtering rare whale
Environmental | 206779 hits | 10:48 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
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Campaigners say that what appears to be a rare blue whale has been killed by Icelandic whalers.
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20717
Link Related to Canada in some say Glacier half the size of Manhattan breaks off Greenland
Environmental | 207172 hits | 7:08 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
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All was quiet on June 22 as Canadian scientists David and Denise Holland settled in for the night off Greenland’s Helheim Glacier. But within minutes, five to eight billion tons of ice had broken off into the water.
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20693
Link Related to Canada in some say Ship that carried hundreds of migrants to Canada now a floating toxic stew
Environmental | 206930 hits | 7:20 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
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The MV Sun Sea carried nearly 500 Tamil migrants to Canada eight years ago, but now the rusting cargo ship sits forlornly on the B.C. coast — an unwanted vessel of toxins including asbestos, PCBs and mould, documents reveal.
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Link Related to Canada in some say Researchers use 36 years of bike race footage to illustrate Belgium's changing climate
Environmental | 207053 hits | 7:09 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
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Researchers from Belgium turned to archived television footage and watched as, over the years, trees began to bloom earlier in response to a warming climate in the region. That timing can have a trickle-down effect that affects other plants and species.
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20681
China blamed for mystery rise in ozone-depleting emissions
Environmental | 206810 hits | 9:03 AM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog
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An environmental pressure group claimed Monday that Chinese factories are illegally using ozone-depleting CFCs, which have recently seen a spike in emissions that has baffled scientists.
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20691
Link Related to Canada in some say U.S. says Canada delaying damning report on B.C. coal mine chemicals in border river
Environmental | 206913 hits | 6:16 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
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In a letter to the U.S. State Department, Americans on the International Joint Commission say Canadian members are withholding information on contaminants in the Kootenai River drainage
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20729
Ozone hole mystery: China insulating chemical said to be source of rise
Environmental | 207285 hits | 6:13 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
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A banned chemical used to make household insulation is implicated in damage to the ozone layer.
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20715
'What will happen to our lands'': Iraq bans farming summer crops amid water shortage
Environmental | 207150 hits | 8:06 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
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Iraq has banned its farmers from planting summer crops this year as the country grapples with a crippling water shortage that shows few signs of abating.
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20704
Link Related to Canada in some say Searching for tree-eating bugs and other signs of life in B.C.'s charred forests
Environmental | 207036 hits | 9:36 AM on Tuesday | posted by Robair
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After an area more than twice the size of P.E.I. burned in last year's record-breaking forest fires in B.C., scientists and loggers are back in the woods facing some unpleasant realities.
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Link Related to Canada in some say
Environmental | 207124 hits | 5:55 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
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The federal government is putting up $27.5 million over the next five years for Canada's biggest national park after concerns about its status as a world heritage site.
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20805
Link Related to Canada in some say Mi'kmaq want answers from BP Canada after drilling mud spill off Nova Scotia coast
Environmental | 208046 hits | 7:27 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
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Mi'kmaq chiefs from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are voicing concerns after a mechanical failure on a BP Canada drilling rig resulted in 136,000 litres of synthetic-based "drilling mud" being spilled into waters off the coast of Nova Scotia.
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20776
Link Related to Canada in some say Barents Sea seems to have crossed a climate tipping point
Environmental | 207757 hits | 6:44 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
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Many of the threats we know are associated with climate change are slow moving. Gradually rising seas, a steady uptick in extreme weather events, and more all mean that change will come gradually to much of the globe. But we also recognize that there can
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Link Related to Canada in some say Stranded fox rescued from iceberg by fishermen who fed him Vienna sausages
Environmental | 208240 hits | 10:55 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
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An Arctic fox generally isn't part of a crab fishing boat's bycatch, but one crew from southern Labrador managed just that last week.
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Link Related to Canada in some say Cleanup underway after train from Alberta derails in Iowa, leaking crude oil into floodwaters
Environmental | 207702 hits | 10:54 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
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A freight train from Alberta derailed in northwest Iowa on Friday, leaking crude oil into flooded fields flanking the tracks and raising concerns about the possible contamination of residential water supplies downstream, officials say.
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Link Related to Canada in some say Canadian government announces measures to help save key whale species
Environmental | 207950 hits | 3:18 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack
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Transportation Minister Marc Garneau announced measures to help in the protection of the southern resident killer whale, the North Atlantic right whale and the St. Lawrence Estuary beluga.
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20809
Link Related to Canada in some say CO2 shortage: Food industry calls for government action
Environmental | 208094 hits | 12:54 AM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog
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As supplies of carbon dioxide run low, the food and drink industry asks the government to take "urgent action".
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20763
Link Related to Canada in some say 111 million tonnes of plastic waste will have nowhere to go by 2030 due to Chinese import ban: study
Environmental | 207634 hits | 7:19 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
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Earlier this year, China stopped taking much of the world's recyclable plastic waste. Now a new study suggests that by the year 2030, an estimated 111 million tonnes of plastic waste will be "displaced" as a result of the policy.
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20791
Link Related to Canada in some say Chemicals found in some U.S. water supplies more toxic than previously thought, report says
Environmental | 207905 hits | 7:15 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
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Chemicals that were used to make non-stick pans and fire-suppressing foam are no longer part of U.S. manufacturing process, but water sampling has found contamination.
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Some Rivers Are So Drug-Polluted, Their Eels Get High on Cocaine
Environmental | 207392 hits | 5:23 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
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Critically endangered eels hyped up on cocaine could have trouble making a 3,700-mile trip to mate and reproduce—new research warns
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Link Related to Canada in some say Coast guard crew makes rare sighting of right whale off Haida Gwaii
Environmental | 207456 hits | 12:03 AM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
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For the third time this decade, one of the world’s rarest whales has been spotted off the B.C. coast, but scientists say it’s too early to say if the species is recovering from being hunted to near-extinction.
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Germany will fail 2020 climate goals, now eyes 2030 target
Environmental | 206581 hits | 4:24 PM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
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Germany will likely miss its goal of cutting emissions by 40 percent by 2020, the country's environment minister said Monday, an embarrassing admission for a government that wants to lead the charge on limiting climate change.
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Link Related to Canada in some say The carbon tax could be the ballot question in the 2019 federal election
Environmental | 207642 hits | 12:17 AM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
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Just as with the free trade election of 1988, we could be set up for a single-issue tilt that settles the question of the day once and for all
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Link Related to Canada in some say 30 years later, former NASA scientist wishes he hadn't been right about climate change
Environmental | 207927 hits | 11:23 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
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On a record hot June day 30 years ago, NASA'S chief climate scientist warned that global warming was here and worsening. Today, he wishes his words had been heeded and more action had been taken.
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20686
Link Related to Canada in some say Unapproved GMO wheat found growing wild in Alberta
Environmental | 206861 hits | 6:30 PM on Thursday | posted by BeaverFever
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The wheat, discovered near a rural road after it survived herbicide spraying, has not been approved for commercial use, said David Bailey, director of CFIA’s plant production division.
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Link Related to Canada in some say 3 trillion tons of Antarctic ice lost since 1992, seas rising, study suggests
Environmental | 207396 hits | 6:11 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
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A comprehensive study suggests the Antarctic ice sheet lost roughly three trillion tons of ice between 1992 and 2017. The study, published today in Nature, found that annual ice loss in West Antarctica — the most vulnerable to warming temperatures — wa
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Link Related to Canada in some say Range of wildlife habitats to be protected in southeastern B.C.
Environmental | 206931 hits | 5:24 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack
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Nests, dens, burrows in Kootenay Boundary not to be disturbed, with rules set to expand across province. Foresters and ranchers in B.C.'s Kootenay Boundary region will have to follow a new set of rules to ensure birds' nests, animal dens, mineral licks, b
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Australian beaches covered with rubbish from lost sea cargo
Environmental | 207362 hits | 9:07 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
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Locals complain of "mountains of rubbish" after 83 shipping containers slipped overboard at sea.
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New California Law Limits How Much Water People Can Use
Environmental | 207356 hits | 12:41 AM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
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The new indoor water standard would be 55 gallons of water per person, per day by 2022, and that would fall to 50 gallons by 2030.
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Environmental | 207030 hits | 7:23 AM on Saturday | posted by DrCaleb
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Even though recycling entrepreneur Eric Lundgren pleaded guilty in a court battle over computer discs, he thinks his sentence will raise awareness about e-waste.

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