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...just a drop in the bucket compared to the number of mammals whose populations are dwindling fast - and nearly 900 species lacked the necessary data to be classified as safe or threatened. "The reality is that the number of threatened mammals could be as high as 36%," noted Jan Schipper, the director of the Global Mammal Assessment for CI. If we don't act soon, our children may live in a world where the only place they'll be able to see unique mammals like Madagascar's greater bamboo lemur will be in history books...
...14th, the 19-year-old grabbed a gold by setting a world-record time in the 200m butterfly final. Just behind her was her Chinese compatriot Jiao Liuyang, who claimed the silver. Australian Jessicah Schipper took the bronze. "I didn't expect I could swim so fast," said a delighted Liu, who demolished Schipper's previous world record by 1.22 seconds - an eternity in the split-second world of swimming...
...pollution they spew - unless they use renewable sources like hydropower or, as John McCain correctly insists, nuclear power, which should be carefully reconsidered). "A lot of utilities supplement their main power sources with quick-acting oil- or gas-driven generators on the hottest days of the year," says Lee Schipper of the University of California, Berkeley. Schipper estimates the cost of peak usage is 20 cents per kW-h, as opposed to an average of 13 cents for "baseload capacity" usage, and it is far more carbon-intense because it is generated...
...Schipper also estimates a savings of 4% for every degree warmer you push your thermostat. If you're set at 70deg.F now and move it to 75deg.-a comfortable, if slightly chilly number to my mind-you save 20% of the cost and energy of your air-conditioning bill. Schipper also says the savings from more-efficient air-conditioning systems can be enormous: in many Asian and European hotel rooms, the AC and electricity are activated only when you slip your magnetic room key into a slot near the door. A program to retrofit all public buildings with high-tech...
...nearly twice (roughly 7%) the energy usage that air-conditioning does. By contrast, the Bush Administration has had a policy of malignant neglect, enunciated by Dick Cheney, who once called conservation a "sign of personal virtue" but not a national goal. "After Carter, sacrifice became a hot-button word," Schipper says. "But there's a reasonable position between sacrifice and just being foolish...