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• FRIDAY 10. FEBRUARY, 2012
• 18:29 Green Blog: The Forensics of Snake Venom

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  Genetic analysis of venom allows Indian investigators to determine whether it came from an endangered cobra, helping them to prosecute traffickers.
  
   

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• 16:34 Green Blog: Nuclear Power vs. Natural Gas

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  One of the biggest risks the Southern Company faces in embarking on a big nuclear project is that natural gas will remain far more affordable.
  
   

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• 13:47 Green Blog: A Carbon Allowance in Every Pot

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  A researcher proposes that the distribution of personal carbon allowances and shorter working hours be embraced to reduce greenhouse gas emissions quickly and equitably.
  
   

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• 05:48 Janice Voss, Shuttle Astronaut and Scientist, Dies at 55

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  Dr. Voss explored the behavior of fire in weightlessness, how plants adapt to extraterrestrial flight and an array of other phenomena while logging nearly 19 million miles circling Earth.
  
   

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• 05:46 Despite ‘Yuck’ Factor, Treated Wastewater Used for Drinking

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  As water becomes more precious, suppliers are beginning to overcome public aversion to treating and reusing wastewater.
  
   

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• 05:33 State Dept. Cleared of Impropriety in Pipeline Case

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  The department’s inspector general found no improper political influence by officials but faulted the department’s oversight of contractors who prepared an environmental impact analysis.
  
   

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• 02:04 The Bay Citizen: California Auto Recyclers Brace for Tightened Regulations

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  The powerful automobile recycling industry in California has avoided toxic waste disposal regulations for decades, but there are signs the situation could be about to change.
  
   

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• THURSDAY 9. FEBRUARY, 2012
• 22:22 Green Blog: The Secret Life of the Rambling Puffin

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  From an island off Maine to the Labrador Sea to the vicinity of Bermuda, the puffin really gets around after its nesting season concludes each year, researchers found.
  
   

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• 22:00 Observatory: Tarsiers: Tiny Primates With Ultrasonic Vocal Skills

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  Tarsiers, five-inch-tall creatures found in Southeast Asia, produce calls that are entirely in ultrasound, above the range of human hearing, researchers find.
  
   

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• 21:44 Green Blog: A Very Warm January

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  The average temperature in January in the United States was 36.3 degrees Fahrenheit -- 5.5 degrees warmer than the average for the 20th century.
  
   

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• 21:09 N.R.C. Approves Building of 2 Reactors in Georgia

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  The Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted 4-to-1 to grant a license to build two nuclear reactors in Georgia, the first time the commission had done so since 1978.
  
   

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• 19:52 Green Blog: On Our Radar: The Danube Ices Over

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  The river is partly or totally blocked from Austria to the Black Sea, crippling transport.
  
   

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• 18:49 Green Blog: More Gyrations in the Price of Food

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  Global food prices have taken their first monthly jump since July, and a big one.
  
   

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• 18:20 Green Blog: A Nuclear Milestone?

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  The Southern Company hopes the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will greenlight a $14 billion construction project at an existing nuclear plant in Waynesboro, Ga.
  
   

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• 17:36 Scientist at Work Blog: The Problem With Coffee Pests

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  A "coffee-forest matrix" could act as a natural barrier to reduce coffee berry borer outbreaks without the use of toxic insecticides.
  
   

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• 17:12 Green Blog: Debating a Resort for the Adirondacks

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  A state park agency has approved a sprawling resort project that could help revive the limping economy of Tupper Lake. Environmentalists fear that it will set a dangerous precedent and jeopardize the area's natural riches.
  
   

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• 16:54 Green Blog: Finding Energy Advantages Six Feet Under

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  Ball State University says its ground source heat pump system will soon be the largest installation of its kind in the country.
  
   

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• 16:06 Green Blog: Wild Salmon Are Not Holding Up, Study Finds

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  Salmon populations in California's Mokelumne watershed are on the rise, but it turns out that only 4 percent are of wild origins.
  
   

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• 08:38 In Struggling Tupper Lake, Resort Project Creates Rift

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  A project in Tupper Lake, N.Y., was approved after a nearly decade-long tug of war between environmentalists and pro-development residents.
  
   

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• 07:40 Study Explores Electrical Stimulation to Aid Memory

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  A small study shows promise that could lead to clues to encoding memory and treating neurological diseases.
  
   

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• 07:00 Nuclear Commission Expected to Vote on New Reactors

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  The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has not given a license to build since 1978, a year before the Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania.
  
   

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• WEDNESDAY 8. FEBRUARY, 2012
• 23:19 Green Blog: Surplus Renewable Energy: An Update

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  From interregional sharing to the development of batteries, the energy secretary offers ideas for coping with a sudden oversupply of power to the grid.
  
   

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• 22:28 Green Blog: From 2 Satellites, the Big Picture on Ice Melt

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  Researchers calculate that from 2003 to 2010, the world's glaciers and ice caps lost about 150 billion tons of ice each year.
  
   

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• 19:34 Drilling Reaches Lake Vostok, Long Trapped Under Antarctic Ice Sheet

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  Scientists said Wednesday they had reached the waters of a lake that has been sealed off for millions of years.
  
   

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• 19:03 Observatory: Amasia Supercontinent Will Form in the Arctic, Geologists Predict

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  In the past, researchers had guessed that the new continent, often called Amasia, would form either over the Atlantic Ocean near present-day Africa, or 180 degrees away, on the other side of the world.
  
   

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