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But this desolate spot, like so many other abandoned small towns in Appalachia, is a gateway to hidden wealth. Deep within Boone County are rich seams of coal, holding some 3.6 billion tons of the black stuff and millions in profits - and much of it sits in Cherry Pond Mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In West Virginia, a Battle Over Mountaintop Mining | 3/12/2010 | See Source »

That will remain the case as long as stockpile sales remain, flooding the market with ivory and weakening what was once a powerful moral prohibition against the trade. It doesn't help that in 2007 CITES gave South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe permission to sell 110 tons of stockpiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: African Nations Move to 'Downlist' the Elephant | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

It should have been clear to the U.S. Navy that Holly Graf wasn't fit for command when her destroyer steamed out of a Sicilian port in 2003 on the eve of the Iraq war. Without warning, all 9,000 tons of the U.S.S. Winston S. Churchill shuddered as it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexism and the Navy's Female Captain Bligh | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

How significant? Davis and his co-author Ken Caldeira estimate that 23% of global CO2 emissions - about 6.2 billion metric tons - are traded internationally, usually going from carbon-intensive developing nations like China to the comparatively less carbon intensive West. In a few rich nations, such as France, Sweden and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Goods Get Traded, Who Pays for the CO2? | 3/9/2010 | See Source »

The effect in the U.S. is less extreme because the country exports more than Western Europe and because the U.S. economy has a higher carbon intensity - but it made a difference. Imports accounted for 10.8% of U.S. carbon emissions, enough to add an additional 2.4 metric tons of CO2 per...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Goods Get Traded, Who Pays for the CO2? | 3/9/2010 | See Source »

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