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What are the Major Mining Countries?

Mining is one of those professions that are not only most high paying because of its end product but also because they are equally dangerous as well. This is a profession that requires little education but a lot of guts to handle because there is imminent danger quite often.

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White House Decides Against Tougher Ozone Standards


If you thought that the downturn in the economy might be detrimental to American citizens, you were right in more ways than one.  Obviously it has had a negative impact on the financial situation of many people across the globe, but it seems that it may now be to blame for an impending health crisis of epic proportions.  No, we’re not talking about Obama’s healthcare reform bill, although it was almost certainly passed due to the increased number of people going without healthcare coverage as a result of the recession.  The problem on the table today is the state of ozone (not our ozone layer, specifically, but rather the toxic gas created by many manufacturing plants) and the fact that stricter regulations sought by members of the medical community have been denied.

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Obama Backs Solar Company Even After Bad Financial Reports

Solar company Solyndra has recently filed for bankruptcy, not even a year after President Obama visited the plant and claimed it was a fine example of American ingenuity.   The company has stated that it will be cutting 1,100 jobs and that the Chinese market made the solar industry too competitive to keep profitable margins.

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The 5 Biggest Oil Spills In History

Oil spills can cause massive devestation that takes years if not decades to completely clear up, which we have seen with the recent Gulf of Mexico disaster that put PB in the line of fine of almost every environmental group in the world. But was that as bad as they get, or have their been even bigger oil spills?

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The Political Battle Over Endangered Species

While climate change has captured the focus of the United States political consciousness – at least so far as the US political consciousness is even concerned with the environment – there is another very important and bitterly divisive environmental issue that is brewing. This issue is endangered species.

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The Numbers on Plastics: What do They Mean?

With the current “green” movement, there has been a major push for reduction of the use of plastics and an even greater push to recycle plastics. While some companies now offer green packaging solutions, a lot of everyday individuals are reducing their waste production by recycling plastics.

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Japan’s Rethink Of Energy: Lessons We Could All Learn

The Fukushima disaster has fallen off the international news radar somewhat, despite the fact that it still isn’t even over. Though not considered on par with the tragedy of Chernobyl, Fukushima has proven a very comprehensive disaster, only the second disaster classified ‘Level 7’ on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES).

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Top 10 Eco-Friendly Countries Of The World

With a number of polluted countries and cities, it would appear as though environmental consciousness hasn’t permeated into our society yet. That’s why the list of environmentally clean countries published by the Yale University’s Center for Environmental Law and Policy and the Columbia University’s Center for International Earth Science Information Network comes as a pleasant surprise.

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Hydroponic Plant Cloners Continue Plant Legacies

Plant cloning has taken place for centuries, but recent years have shown improvements in the techniques used to generate new plants using older ones. For those wishing to learn how to go about cloning their very own plants, stay tuned, and get a glimpse of how hydroponic plant cloners work.

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Mormons Going Green With Solar Powered Chapels

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day saints, known to the uninitiated as Mormons are very proud of their new solar powered meetinghouse. They rolled out the new pilot program and hopes that it will eventually be the standard for all the meetinghouses worldwide.  Of all the religions practiced in the United States the Mormons have been the ones historically associated with environmentalism.  One of the tenants taught by Joseph Smith that is was not good to kill animals unless you were using them for food.

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