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Oil Giants Eye Arctic Reserves Last winter in the Arctic, the Russian tanker Renda carved its way to the remote Alaskan port of Nome. Not long ago this voyage - made in December and January - would have been impossible. The warming climate means thin

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From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. In parts of India, it is not uncommon to see people wearing a mask over their nose and mouth. The capital, New Delhi, has some of the world's dirtiest air. The pollution was a call for a

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The price of oil has dropped around 20 percent in recent weeks, but remains more than double what it was just a couple of years ago. The high price has given oil companies the incentive to revisit old fields long ago abandoned as unprofitable. As VO

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By Tabinda Naeem Washington, D.C. 21 May 2007 Two years ago, the National Academy of Engineering established the Grainger Challenge Prize for Sustainability. This $1 million award was designed to challenge the world's scientists to develop a practica

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