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Half of food produced worldwide is wasted, study finds
Up to half of the food produced worldwide never makes it into a consumer's mouth, according to a new report. That’s as much as 2 billion tons of grub that’s wasted, according to a study released Thursday by Britain's Institution of...
Tags: Conservation, Science and Technology, Arable Farming, Natural Resources Defense Council, United Kingdom
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Name change: California Department of Fish and Wildlife
To Jared Huffman, the name "fish and game" was an outdated artifact of a bygone era when state officials mostly set hunting seasons and bag limits. It no longer reflected the department's mission "to mange California's diverse fish, wildlife and plant...
Tags: Conservation, Wildlife, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environmental Issues
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Letters: Marijuana growers trash California's forests
Re “Pot farms take dirty toll,” Dec. 23 Some years back I purchased a copy of biologist George Wuerthner's guide “California's Wilderness Areas: Mountains and coastal ranges.” As a Southern California native, I was not familiar...
Tags: Conservation, Wildlife, Environmental Issues
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Market Watch: Plum-cherry hybrids find a sweet spot
Special to the Los Angeles TimesHANFORD, Calif. — Combining the high sugar and flavor of cherries with the larger fruit size and extended season of plums has been a longstanding dream for fruit breeders, but such crosses are difficult to make successfully so that the hybrids yield...Tags: Pies and Tarts, Forestry and Timber, Genes and Chromosomes, Forests, Cherries
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California's piers: Enjoy their primal allure
How was that little vacation you took? You remember. It cost you almost nothing, it burned some calories (or, after that ice cream cone, added a few) and briefly immersed you in quintessential California. It was that walk on a pier, those structures that...
Tags: Conservation, Wildlife, Personal Service, Environmental Issues, Endangered Species
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Even as climate change turns up the heat, we go on fracking
In the midst of a broiling summer that is burning up crops and killing people, a lot of Americans, including most of the leaders of one of our two major political parties, do not think climate change is a problem. Like ostriches with their heads stuck...
Tags: Conservation, Science and Technology, Petroleum Industry, Global Warming, Environmental Issues
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Plan calls for more than 10,000 homes at Great Park
L.A. NOWThousands of new homes could be built along the perimeter of a former Marine base in Orange County that officials envision being turned into one of the nation’s great urban parks, according to a proposal being considered by city officials in Irvine.... -
Jean Craighead George dies at 92; children's author
After children's author Jean Craighead George revealed that she wanted to write a book about a girl who talks with wolves, legendary book editor Ursula Nordstrom reportedly asked one question — will it be accurate? — and most certainly knew...
Tags: Science and Technology, Wildlife, Environmental Issues, New York Public Library, Arts and Culture
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In pursuit of the Yucatan Peninsula's gray ghosts
Welcome to the end of the road. If you're going to Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve, it stops here, near the tip of a long, skinny peninsula about 100 miles south of Cancun. Scrub jungle encroaches on the village, fishermen wait for the opening of lobster...Tags: Trout, Forestry and Timber, Petroleum Industry, Hotels and Accommodations, United Nations
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WWDC 2012: Apple Maps, Photo Stream and FaceTime better in iOS 6
Finally, we can stop cursing the limitation of Maps, FaceTime and Photo Stream. Apple on Monday announced some sweet updates for iOS 6 at its developers conference, WWDC. For Maps, it's (as expected) bye-bye, Google, and hello, 3-D flyovers and turn-by-...
Tags: Apple iPad, Wildlife, Apple iPhone, Social Media, Apple iCloud
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WWDC 2012: Apple's Mountain Lion makes Mac more like the iPad
Your MacBook may soon be more like a supercharged iPad. At the Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple showed off eight of the 200 new features of its latest operating system, Mountain Lion, that will be making that happen. For example, Messages, the...
Tags: Apple iPad, Wildlife, Apple iCloud, Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Environmental Issues
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Elinor Ostrom dies at 78; first woman to win Nobel in economics
Elinor Ostrom, an Indiana University political economist who in 2009 became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics by demonstrating that local communities can manage imperiled natural resources as well as or better than the government or...Tags: Natural Resource Industry, Conservation, Science and Technology, Entertainment Events, Social Sciences
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