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Transportation
Transportation
Commuting Bicyclists: A Growing Transportation Trend
Biking is gaining popularity as a form of commuting. An estimated 3.2 million individuals are now bicycling to work in the U.S. at least once a week, an 100% increase since 1985. Free or inexpensive bikes are attracting hundreds of thousands of users.
Apr 29, 2008, 7:01pm
Transportation
Bicycles Selling Like Hotcakes in US Stores
Americans purchased more bicycles than new cars and trucks combined in the past year. Pacific Bicycle,the largest bicycle distributor in the United States. sold 5 million bicycles last year, ranging in price from $50 to several thousand dollars.
Aug 13, 2005, 12:39pm
Transportation
UNEP: Over 50% of gasoline in sub-Saharan Africa is now lead free
Over 50% of gasoline in sub-Saharan Africa is now lead free Kenya to go fully unleaded putting the continent on track for a full phase-out by 2005
May 9, 2004, 6:29am
Transportation
Efficient transportation for successful urban planning in Curitiba
Curitiba's Integrated Transport Network has proven that transportation land use and road systems can be used successfully as integrative tools of development in the face of an expanding population.
Apr 28, 2003, 2:50pm
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| Agriculture |
| Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Announce $120 Million in New Agriculture Grants: Bill Gates to Call for United Action to Support World's Poorest Farmers |
| Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the Arctic Opens Doors for 100 Million Seeds from 100 Countries |
| Flood-tolerant Rice Offers Relief for World's Poorest Farmers |
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| Air Pollution |
| Australians Embrace Climate Neutrality on National Day : Carbon Neutral Initiatives Planned Nationwide |
| China Closes Five of its Six Depleting Chemical Plants |
| Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Concludes that Cost-Effective Policies and Technologies Could Greatly Reduce Global Warming |
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| Biodiversity |
| U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Designates Critical Habitat for Threatened Population of Sea Otters |
| Living, Meandering River Constructed: Vegetation and sand found to be essential in stream life |
| Cool Tools Let Public Upload Images, Information to Massive Interactive Online Biodiversity Encyclopedia |
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| Desertification |
| Tamarix, a natural resource on which the communities depend for fuelwood, tools, and basket making. |
| World Vision International (WVI) restoration and protection project in the Louga region |
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| Energy |
| Researchers make Breakthrough in Creating Gasoline from Plant Matter |
| Remarkable New Shirt Harvests Energy from Wearer's Movement |
| Microbes Churn Out Hydrogen at Record, New Efficient Rate |
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| Exhibits |
| Coral Reefs |
| Ecosystems of Bolivia |
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| Global Climate Change |
| £5.1M Government Funding Secured To Develop Wave Energy Device, Oyster 2 |
| United Nations (UN) Completes Greenhouse Gas Inventory: Challenge Now To Cut Back Emissions |
| Assessing Biofuels Report Helps Give Greater Clarity to Burning Issue |
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| Industry |
| Clean Technology Investment in North American Hits Record High |
| Ten Thousand Villages Provides Fair Income to Artisans |
| United Nations Agency to Back One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Project to Distribute $100 Laptops |
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| News and Special Reports |
| Haitians in UN’s cash-for-work scheme earn income as they help their country |
| Global Ice Age Climate Patterns Influenced by Bering Strait: Small geographic feature has large impacts on climate |
| Help for Haiti: Remarks by President Obama on Rescue Efforts in Haiti |
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| Oceans, Coral Reefs |
| Book, World Ocean Census: A Global Survey of Marine Life, Highlights Findings of Ten-year Census of Marine Life 2000-2010 |
| NOAA Report Finds Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary Among the Healthiest Coral Reefs in Gulf of Mexico |
| National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Announces Interim Rules to Reduce Overfishing and Rebuild Northeast Groundfish Stocks |
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| Population |
| Africa : Upgrading Traditional Midwives' Skills |
| Realityworks infant simulator and RealCare® Parenting Program |
| The Teen Outreach Program (TOP) |
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| Public Health |
| Report Identifies Barriers, Offers Solutions to Water and Sanitation Service Delivery |
| World Water Day March 22, 2009: Water Sharing is Crucial in the Fight Against Disease |
| Swedish Teenagers Help Educate and Empower Female Refugees in Rwanda |
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| Sanitation |
| Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak Indian Sanitation Innovator and Social Reformer Receives the 2009 Stockholm Water Prize |
| Experts at World Water Week Assert That Sanitation is Humanity’s Most Urgent, Yet Solvable Crisis |
| The improved septic tanks project |
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| Transportation |
| Commuting Bicyclists: A Growing Transportation Trend |
| Bicycles Selling Like Hotcakes in US Stores |
| UNEP: Over 50% of gasoline in sub-Saharan Africa is now lead free |
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| Waste Management |
| UN Environment Programme Waste Management Project in Southern Sudan Launched by UK Minister |
| 119 Countries will Participate in Clean Up the World campaign |
| Finns Use Pig Slurry to Clean Polluted Pond |
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| Water |
| New Agreements Address Water Safety in Latin America and Caribbean |
| UNEP Head Says Investing in Freshwaters Could Be A Key to Aid Global Economy |
| Small Ecuadorian Clean Water Project Improves Health in Village |
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