Tag: Environment

A first report following China's earthquake

Monday, May 12, 2008

State media is reporting a death toll of up to 5,000 following an 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck central China. BBC reporter Quentin Somerville provides an update.

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Question of the day: What’s on your personal endangered list?

Monday, May 12, 2008

The polar bear could be declared an endangered species within a few days. But we want to know what’s on your personal endangered list. Sleep? Reading? Time with the kids? Time away from the kids? Leave your comment by clicking "get in the mix", by emailing mytake@thetakeaway.org, or by calling our SpinVox line at 1-877-8-MY-TAKE. Tune in Tuesday morning to hear what others had to say.

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The struggle to deliver aid to Burma

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Twenty-two thousand people are dead. Forty-one thousand are missing. And the cyclone that roared through Myanmar (Burma) on Saturday has affected 24 million people. Aid organizations are starting the difficult process of helping.

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Correspondents from the BBC and New York Times provide views of the Burmese cyclone from Thailand

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

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The Burmese cyclone touches a restaurant in Philadelphia

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Burmese communities in the United States have been following the aftermath of the cyclone closely. The Takeaway talks with Mya Htay, who works at Rangoon Burmese Restaurant in Philadelphia. Her mother is one of the restaurant's three co-owners, and the staff has been trying to cope with trauma and uncertainty this week.

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Myanmar aid groups face steep challenges

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Agencies are struggling to provide humanitarian aid to hundreds of thousands of people left vulnerable after Cyclone Nargis roared through Myanmar (Burma) on Saturday.

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There will be gas: microbes that gobble up heavy oil and spit out natural gas

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

This summer, British and Canadian researchers plan to test new technology for releasing previously unrecoverable energy trapped in heavy oil deposits. It works by stimulating tiny microbes to chew up the sticky, tar-like heavy oil and metabolize it into natural gas.

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The availability of electricity, water and aid in Yangon

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

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Burmese media reports 4000 deaths in cyclone aftermath

Monday, May 05, 2008

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Food for tomorrow's table: Two unlikely marriages

Thursday, May 01, 2008

Guests: Pamela Ronald and Raoul Adamchak

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Shock and oil

Monday, April 28, 2008

Lisa Margonelli says this could be a day we all remember, when oil finally spikes to a price that makes us change our behavior.

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Guest blogger Lisa Margonelli: A short history of the future of British oil

Monday, April 28, 2008

By Sitara Nieves : Senior Producer

Sign up here to join Harvard's oil crisis simulation, April 28, 2008.

In 1988 I drove more than a thousand miles on a whim-fueled road trip to see an ichthysaur skeleton. The dirt cheap gas that enabled this ridiculous and ultimately unsuccessful project (the ichthysaur was closed when I got there) was partly and indirectly provided by the Forties Pipeline in the UK's North Sea, which was just closed by a strike at a Scottish refinery.

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Betting on the oil markets

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

The last time that we saw gas prices rising this quickly was in the 1970s, when Americans responded by cutting their gas use by 30 percent. Lisa Margonelli, author of "Oil on the Brain: Adventures from Pump to Pipeline," says the high price of oil is, in part, driven by one group of people that surprised us: oil speculators.

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