Deceptive 'Greenwashing' Aims to Trick Ecotourists

Maura Judkis

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• The U.N. on the State of Climate Change
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Energy opener (Photo Illustration by Rob Cady/USN&WR with Photograph by Image Source/Jupiter Images)

Can America Use Less Energy?

• Video: High-Tech Energy Hogs
• Calculate Your Footprint
• Going on an Energy Diet
• Energy Costs Around Your House
• 3 Ways Businesses Can Save
• PCs are Energy Drains
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Brightly lit communities have high rates of breast cancer, according to a new study of cancer data and satellite images of light pollution. (NASA/GSFC/Craig Mayhew and Robert Simmon)

Turning Out the Lights

The dangers of a bright night are becoming more apparent.

• Photos: Light Pollution
• Burning the Earth at Both Ends
• Shedding Light on Breast Cancer Cause
• Light at Night: How to Counter the Health Effects

• 6 High-Tech Gizmos That are Green
• Warm Up to Geothermal
• Geeks and Greens at the Auto Show

Woman sitting in butterfly chair at Botanical Gardens, Zilker Park, Austin, Tex. (Richard Cummins/Lonely Planet Images/Getty Images)

10 Greenest Places to Retire

Parks can make even the densest and driest locales seem like cities in gardens.

• Recipe for a City Park's Success
• Photos: Greenest Cities
• Best Places to Retire
• Photos: Readers' Favorite Retirement Spots

Arizona Striped Whiptail The Arizona striped whiptail, imperiled because of habitat destruction, is one of 681 species that WildEarth Guardians filed suit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect. In the past two years, no U.S. plant or wildlife species has been added to the list. (Erik E. Enderson)

Not-Quite-Endangered Species

One conservation group says these 10 species—and 671 others—belong on the endangered list.

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