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Enterprise Rent-A-Car Adds Biodiesel Cars to Fleet

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Enterprise Rent-A-Car has added five biodiesel vehicles to its Portland fleet, testing customer demand for environmentally friendly rentals. The Jeep Liberties come filled with bio-fuel and can be refilled at four local stations or with regular diesel.
   

Tanzania Bans Plastic Bags

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

The manufacturing, importing, buying and using of thin plastic bags is now banned in Tanzania. Bags are blamed for harming livestock, blocking drains and reducing soil fertility.

   

China Spends $1Billion on River Clean Up

Monday, April 03, 2006

China will invest around 1.2 billion USD over the next five years to curb the pollution of the Songhua River, funding more than 200 projects, half of which will address industrial pollution, 70 will focus on sewage processing.
   

HIV Drops in India

Friday, March 31, 2006

The prevalence of new H.I.V. infections has fallen significantly in southern India, the region most heavily infected. The decline by more than a third from 2000 through 2004 was attributed to increasing use of condoms. — Lancet, 06/3/31
   

Polio Vaccines in Somalia

Sunday, March 26, 2006

The World Health Organization has launched a five-day polio immunization campaign in Somalia to vaccinate nearly one and a half million children under age five against the crippling disease, which is on the decline there.
   

Coral Reef Discovered

Saturday, March 25, 2006

A new coral reef was discovered off the Thai coast, which is home to over 30 types of hard corals and at least 112 species of fish, including a parrot fish never seen in Thailand until now — and as a rare species of sweet lips. It's an area of 1.4 square miles, 270 hectares, and scientists call it "spectacular."
   

Golden Monkeys Surprising Comeback

Friday, March 17, 2006

China's golden monkeys, a species more endangered than giant pandas (and almost as adorable), have made a surprising comeback with populations quadrupling in the past two decades from 200 in the early 1980s to around 800.
   

Decrease of American Women Smoking

Sunday, February 26, 2006

For the first time in 40 years, less than 20 percent of women smoke (one third of women smoked in 1965). Wanna quit? Free help line (800) 784-8669.
   

U.S. Forests Expanding

Sunday, February 26, 2006

Since 2000, U.S. forests have expanded by an area larger than Delaware.  — Jan. 2006, Smithsonian magazine

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Lower Lead Levels in U.S. Kids

Saturday, February 25, 2006

Levels of lead have dropped dramatically. In 1976, 88.2 percent of U.S. children had elevated blood lead levels compared to 1.6 percent today. (Feb. 25, 2006)
   

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