What’s nice about Paris Hilton is her close and undeniable bond with nature. Like how she toils away in the grueling socialite scene to support her 17 pooches in the lifestyle to which they’ve become accustomed, even building them a doggie replica of her own mansion, complete with chandelier and matching furniture. Or how she cut down on her carbon footprint by living like a Spartan for 45 whole days… in jail. Or how she—and this is, like, totally sweet—wanted so badly to have pioneered the hybrid craze that she actually convinced herself that the Yukon SUV she bought as a “little birthday present” to herself in 2008, was the “first one” ever purchased.

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Posted by Tobin Hack on Aug 7, 2008 at 1:54 PM
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Move over, leaches, science may have a new favorite slimy aide: the common piddock. This marine mollusk produces luminous chemicals that researchers from Knight Scientific say can detect the earliest signs of infection. The abundant creatures burrow into rocks in shallow coastal waters from the UK south to the Atlantic coast of Morocco.

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Posted by Alisa Opar on Aug 6, 2008 at 11:25 AM
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These days everybody from oil companies to B-list Hollywood actors are hoisting themselves up on the green bandwagon. The latest entity to show off their green fatigues is none other than the US Army, which recently announced its goal to reduce Army carbon dioxide emissions 30 percent by 2015. Continue reading Green fatigue

Posted by Jessica A. Knoblauch on Aug 1, 2008 at 2:40 PM
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The dating scene for straight, single women is already fraught with “modelizers” and “freaks,” at least according to the ladies of “Sex and the City”, but it looks like the pool of eligible bachelors may be about to get smaller, according to a recent study published in Environmental Health that found women exposed to high levels of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, are significantly less likely to give birth to boys.

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Posted by Jessica A. Knoblauch on Jul 29, 2008 at 12:48 PM
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Americans are leaving their cars at home as gas prices rise. They drove 40.5 billion fewer miles between November 2007 and May 2008 as compared to the same period a year earlier, says a report released today by the Department of Transportation. Comparing May of 2007 to 2008, total miles driven fell by 3.7 percent.

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Posted by Victoria Schlesinger on Jul 28, 2008 at 5:24 PM
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