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A Mussel-Bound Robot
No one pays much attention to the humble creatures that inhabit our shorelines. But a new technology may help us understand their unique vulnerability to climate change.
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reviews

A Supremely Bad Idea
Bird-watching as therapy.
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dispatches

California's Big Ranch Gets Rescued
About 60 miles north of Los Angeles lies a 269,000-acre working ranch, the largest contiguous private landholding in California.
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frontlines

Canada's Wunderkind
Throw away a plastic bag and microorganisms will eventually break it down—in about 1,000 years.
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dispatches

China Opens
In an effort to assuage public discontent over environmental problems and to meet new targets for limiting pollution, China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection has put into effect national regulations allowing ordinary citizens access to national and local government environmental records.
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dispatches

Cleaning the Ports of L.A.
Imagine waking up and throwing open your bedroom window for a breath of fresh air, only to find black soot blanketing the sill and a yellow-brown haze hanging in the sky.
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frontlines

Crude and Slimy
Is slime the next energy frontier?
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feature stories

Delta Blues
In the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, cargo ships sail inland, the soil burns, and rivers run backward. Surreal it may be, but the delta is a cornerstone of the California economy -- and now it's at the brink of collapse.
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NRDC at work

Fall 2008: Western Water, Green Nations, Body Toxics
NRDC experts tackle many of the same issues covered in OnEarth by independent journalists. Here's a quick peek behind the headlines.
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dispatches

Fishy Rules
While global fish stocks plummet from overfishing, habitat loss, and pollution, demand for seafood is on the rise.
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