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	<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Size Does Matter</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2008/10/06/size-does-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Land Use]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The world’s smallest park, according to the Guinness Book of Records, is in Portland, Oregon.
It’s called Mill Ends Park and it is a lonely patch of earth that barely measures 2 feet across, sitting in a sea of asphalt and traffic in downtown Portland.
In 1946 City of Portland municipal workers forgot to install a street lamp [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Night at the Movies &#124; Bioluminescence in the Sea</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2008/10/03/friday-night-at-the-movies-bioluminescence-in-the-sea/</link>
		<comments>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2008/10/03/friday-night-at-the-movies-bioluminescence-in-the-sea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob P.</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Nature, Wildlife]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>

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Suit up, landlubbers! This weekend, David Gallow takes us beneath the waves and shares some marvelous footage of bioluminescent creatures in the deep sea and shallow waters.
When most of us think of light-emitting creatures, we probably think of the firefly, but bioluminescence is much more common in the marine environment.
Produced by chemical reactions within an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Its Snowing On Mars</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2008/10/01/its-snowing-on-mars/</link>
		<comments>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2008/10/01/its-snowing-on-mars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It has been snowing on Mars and it took a Canadian scientist using Canadian technology to recognize it. Seems that Canadians know snow when they see it.
“Nothing like this view has ever been seen on Mars,” said Jim Whiteway of Toronto’s York University and the lead weather scientist for NASA&#8217;s Mars Lander project. 
“It’s a major breakthrough,” said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Solar Japan</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2008/09/30/a-solar-japan/</link>
		<comments>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2008/09/30/a-solar-japan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business, Industry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Consumers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Home]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics, Government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Japanese government will introduce a new subsidy for home owners who want to convert to solar power. The program is designed to reduce solar power conversion costs by almost 10 percent.
Japan is a nation that has virtually no natural resources. Oil is used to meet nearly 60% of Japan&#8217;s total energy needs and almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arctic Ice Cap Reaches Lowest Coverage For 2008</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2008/09/29/arctic-ice-cap-reaches-lowest-coverage-for-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2008/09/29/arctic-ice-cap-reaches-lowest-coverage-for-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric McLamb</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ecosystems]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Arctic sea ice coverage appears to have reached its lowest extent for the year and the second-lowest amount recorded since the dawn of the satellite era, according to observations from the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado in Boulder. While slightly above the record-low minimum set Sept. 16, 2007, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Light Weekend Reading &#124; Recently Released CRS Reports</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2008/09/27/light-weekend-reading-recent-crs-reports/</link>
		<comments>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2008/09/27/light-weekend-reading-recent-crs-reports/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob P.</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Energy, Natural Resources]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Issues]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health, Wellness]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics, Government]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Science, Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From time to time, we browse recently released Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports and highlight those with potential interest to our readers. This week&#8217;s release was so extensive we&#8217;ve organized documents into broad categories.
Clicking a title will open a new browser window with a document summary, from which the full report can be downloaded in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Night at the Movies &#124; Can Ants Help Solve Traffic Jams?</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2008/09/26/friday-night-at-the-movies-can-ants-help-solve-traffic-jams/</link>
		<comments>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2008/09/26/friday-night-at-the-movies-can-ants-help-solve-traffic-jams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob P.</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Conservation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever sat in a traffic jam and thought about the fossil fuel being wasted? Or the effect of all those idling engines on air quality? Or the greenhouse gases being created? If only we could get around as efficiently as ants seem to find our picnics&#8230;
Well, it just so happens that researchers studying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wall Street Crisis and the Environment</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2008/09/24/wall-street-crisis-and-the-environment/</link>
		<comments>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2008/09/24/wall-street-crisis-and-the-environment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Many financial experts are concerned that the current US financial market meltdown and the staggering infusion of 700 billion dollars to save it will only result in restoring the status quo.
Some are also concerned that the normal use of fossil fuel consumption will continue at the expense of plans to convert power production towards techniques that could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carbon Free and Proud of It!</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2008/09/23/carbon-free-and-proud-of-it/</link>
		<comments>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2008/09/23/carbon-free-and-proud-of-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Conservation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Energy, Natural Resources]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Samso is a Danish island that is perhaps the world&#8217;s first modern, completely self sustaining, energy producing community.
Samso has a population of 41 hundred people spread over 22 villages and numerous farms. Each year its population swells by 50 thousand as summer residents and tourists come to enjoy the quiet, quaint island way of life.

Prior [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recently Released CRS Reports</title>
		<link>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2008/09/21/congressional-research-service-recently-released-reports/</link>
		<comments>http://ecology.com/ecology-today/2008/09/21/congressional-research-service-recently-released-reports/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob P.</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Politics, Government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following reports, prepared by the U.S. Congressional Research Service (CRS), are now available to the public online through the Open CRS project. Links below lead to a document summary, from which the full documents can be downloaded as PDFs. Dates shown indicate when the reports were prepared.*
Animal Waste and Water Quality: EPA&#8217;s Response to [...]]]></description>
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