Environmental risks haunt 'ghost fleet'
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From afar, the ghostly warships recall a fierce phalanx ready for battle. A closer look, though, shows the rust and rot of ships unfit for duty or even dismantling, a quandary that is costing taxpayers millions of dollars and could cause environmental misery that will cost millions more.
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The oceans are absorbing carbon dioxide that has built up in the air, turning water more acidic and creating potentially catastrophic conditions for marine life.
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Can cruise ships and nature coexist? An experiment gets under way in Cozumel to test the idea.
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A Greenpeace ship on Saturday confronted a Japanese whaling fleet that had initially planned to hunt protected humpbacks, the environmentalists said Â setting off the latest round of cat-and-mouse in a sometimes dangerous feature of the hunting debate.
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The dilemma: Auto manufacturers have been reluctant to build fleets of hydrogen-powered vehicles before the existence of public hydrogen stations in the United States, while fuel
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A rattled industry keeps on rolling, but between diesel prices and rising demand, it's a bumpy ride.
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A growing number of companies are reporting on their social and environmental impact  but many neglect the environment footprint of their supply chain.
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By Peronto, Jim  THE GHOSTNET PROJECT  The GhostNet Project, run by Airborne Technologies, Inc. in Wasilla, Alaska, uses satellites and airplanes to detect, track, and recover driftnets and other junk in the north Pacific.
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The results of one of the stranger environmental surveys to be conducted in Britain are in -- and there's a surprise.
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Science & environment: Concerns about adverse environmental impacts prompt review of drive to run vehicles on biofuels
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By Andrew Gant, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Jun. 11--Abandoned boats left over from storms on the Emerald Coast are finally starting to move again -- into the junkyards.   Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Lt.
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Environmentalists fear a maritime disaster if a beached coal freighter in eastern Australia breaks up.
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By OLIVER DUFF  Imagine the scene: two slightly posh gents camped out in the Mozambique savannah, encountering creepy crawlies, big game and questionable sanitation - in the name of the environment.
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Alaska&#39;s Aleutian Island chain, where a broken cargo ship has been leaking fuel oil for five days, needs the type of environmental protections that are given to better
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By SANDY SHORE  DENVER - The streets of New York have never looked so barren.  An occasional taxi or bus motors down a boulevard as people wander aimlessly among eerily vacant buildings. Soon, black helicopters loom overhead and armed soldiers close ranks on the streets below.
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Peter Annin recalls staring in horror at what had been the coast of the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan, now a wasteland strewn with scrub brush and corroded hulls of abandoned fishing boats.
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RANCHO BERNARDO, Calif., Oct. 24 -- Strange things happened on Cloudesly Drive. Houses simply disappeared. At one address, there is a swimming pool, transformed into a black lagoon. There is a metal lump, still warm to the touch, that appears to have been the dishwasher. What else? A pile of charred...