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Palm oil under attack

What do instant noodles, baby formula, some biofuels, French fries, lipstick, and ice cream have in common? It’s the vegetable/oil fat listed in the ingredients of many products in the supermarket. The oil’s use is increasing as manufacturers steer ...

From BETH DALEY, Boston Globe,  22 Nov 2009
Related Topics: United Nations

Green lines

FOR DECADES, NOBODY in the US had seen the bee. The silver-haired black Epeoloides pilosula was once widespread in New England, often found where native yellow loosestrife plants grew. But as the region’s pastoral landscapes gave way to forests, the ...

From BETH DALEY, Boston Globe,  20 Nov 2009
Related Topics: University of Connecticut,  Northeast Utilities,  National Grid,  Doris Duke,  The Nature Conservancy

Roach Ponds purchase links Maine wilderness areas

Connectivity is a key word in the conservation movement these days: As land becomes more fragmented because of roads or subdivisions, environmental groups are looking to ensure large tracts of protected land are linked together. Now, with the ...

From BETH DALEY, Boston Globe,  15 Nov 2009
Related Topics: AMC

Kerry’s green side takes center stage

John F. Kerry is known for his expertise on matters of war and foreign policy, and for his failed 2004 presidential bid. But when he arrives in Copenhagen next month for international climate talks, the world will see a less familiar but perhaps more ...

From BETH DALEY, Boston Globe,  12 Nov 2009
Related Topics: John F. Kerry,  U.S. Senate,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Democratic Party

Calling all beetle scouts

You’ve probably heard about the dreaded Asian longhorned beetle wreaking havoc - and forcing the cutting down of some 25,000 trees - in the Worcester area. Now it’s your turn to make sure they don’t make it to Boston by participating in a survey on ...

From BETH DALEY, Boston Globe,  8 Nov 2009

In dead Vineyard oaks, a warming warning

WEST TISBURY - Ever since a vast tract of Martha’s Vineyard forest died two years ago, visitors who stumbled upon the graveyard of gray stalks have called it eerie, bizarre, and sad. Now scientists are calling it something else: a possible climate ...

From BETH DALEY, Boston Globe,  2 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Harvard University,  National Science Foundation,  National Weather Service

Conservation groups see decline in their best supporters

Decline in hiking, backpacking could cost conservation groups Anyone who has been on Mount Washington’s Tuckerman Ravine Trail in August may feel like it’s a superhighway of hikers, but research shows that there has been a decline in strenuous nature ...

From BETH DALEY, Boston Globe,  1 Nov 2009
Related Topics: University of Illinois,  Sierra Club,  Environmental Protection Agency

2 tribes object to Cape Wind turbines

Native American rituals and beliefs have emerged as a surprising last-minute obstacle to federal approval of the nation’s first offshore wind farm, threatening to significantly delay the Cape Wind project. Two Massachusetts tribes say the 130 proposed ...

From BETH DALEY, Boston Globe,  26 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Ken Salazar,  National Park Service

Foreign-born . . . and all-American

My mother does not believe my daughter has what it takes to be president. It’s not because Mintiwab is only 3. Or that she is more dictator than democrat, ordering her older brothers to play with such withering authority that they begin pouring the ...

From BETH DALEY, Boston Globe,  24 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Pew Research Center

Scientists discover a vegetarian spider, upending a longstanding assumption

For years, scientists were confident the world’s 40,000 spider species shared a common trait: All were meat-eaters. Now, Brandeis University senior lecturer Eric Olson and Villanova University researcher Christopher Meehan have found a vegetarian ...

From BETH DALEY, Boston Globe,  18 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Villanova University,  Rudyard Kipling

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