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Published November 8, 2009 News this week that the eight-county Houston region could meet the federal air quality standard by the slimmest of margins drew applause from officials, but there are no plans to become complacent....
By James Bruggers • jbruggers@courier-journal.com • November 7, 2009 The federal government has put a wildflower found only in Jefferson and Bullitt counties on track for designation as threatened or endangered. Just the act of...
They calculate that dog owning is much worse than SUV driving for the planet. Yes, CO2 levels and global temperatures have risen since the Industrial Revolution, and that's something to take seriously. But the political reality...
Rachel Rosenthal will be celebrating her 83rd birthday tonight at the Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica. An artist, teacher, animal rights activist and living legend, Rosenthal has been creating art for over 50 years. Rosenthal...
The clutch of walkers in San Pedro stood and gawked with disbelief. They watched as a man got out of his car, played for a bit with his beautiful, muscular pit bull, and then got back in the vehicle and drove off – without his...
A Glimpse into the Future By Norma Zager “Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers” Socrates(470-399 B.C.) Despite the constant egregious flow of rhetoric from...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded Arizona State University two grants for alternative energy research that are part of a special DOE program to pursue high-risk, high-reward advances with the potential to change...
After his visit to Tokyo, President Barack Obama puts even more distance between himself and Chicago-on-the-Potomac -- CHICOMAC (by which name even some outside the president's entourage are learning to call our capital) -- by...
Animal Rights law also known as Animal Liberations, are laws that are suppose to protect animals. This law states that animals are to be given the same considerations as humans receive. If ever a crime were committed, the...
Rare and beautiful animals such as the clouded leopard or douc langur monkey spend their lives in the jungles of southeast Asia. In death, they might end up in, of all places, an open U.S. market catering to southeast Asian...
