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		<title>Tar sands</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canada's oil-drenched sands give it the second-largest oil reserves in the world. Using the "tar sands" pollutes air and water, destroys forests and could cause cancer. Should we leave oil sands alone?]]></description>
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		<title>Fertilizing the ocean</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whyfiles.org/?p=2702</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As Earth warms, we may need huge geoengineering projects to fight climate change. Would adding iron to fertilize ocean plants withdraw enough carbon dioxide to slow warming? Could the plan backfire?]]></description>
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		<title>History of fishing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 21:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whyfiles.org/?p=1953</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A new study finds a surprising number of fish, birds and mammals in the oceans 100 and 1,000 years ago. Can this information help regulators slow the decline of important marine animals?]]></description>
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		<title>Counting birds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The feds put out a massive report on American birds, and the #1 source of data is – amateurs! What is the role of amateurs in ornithology? Hint: if you want to survey 800 species on 3.5 million square miles…]]></description>
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		<title>Bush creates huge Pacific reserves</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whyfiles.org/?p=1161</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Three giant new reserves, extend 50 miles out from shore, will protect coral reefs, fish, clams, and other life forms. But how effective are marine protected areas?]]></description>
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		<title>Carbon tax or carbon trading? Can economics battle global warming?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whyfiles.org/?p=1076</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Carbon tax or carbon trading? Can economics battle global warming? As the United Nations gets set for (another!) pow-wow on global warming, policy wonks are focusing on two mechanisms to reduce carbon pollution. Which gets more control at a lower price: carbon tax or carbon cap-and-trade?]]></description>
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		<title>Green as a garbage dump? Waste rots, makes energy…</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whyfiles.org/?p=1071</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Decay is part of life, and death. When garbage decays in a landfill, or manure decays in a tank, the result is methane. Is this natural gas a problem -- or an opportunity?]]></description>
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		<title>Coral reefs: Massive threats to survival around the globe</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coral reefs are the ocean's biodiversity hotspots, but a new study finds that one-third of reef-building corals are under some threat of extinction.]]></description>
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		<title>Gulf of Mexico: Dealing with the Dead Zone</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When too much fertilizer reaches the Gulf of Mexico through the Mississippi River, a vast area gets robbed of oxygen. What can be done to reduce the dead zone that appears each summer?]]></description>
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		<title>Reprocessing nuclear fuel: A cure that&#8217;s worse than the disease?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the Nevada waste dump 20 years late, deadly radwaste still piles up. Would removing the plutonium for new fuel aid proliferators or help with waste storage? The debate continues.]]></description>
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