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Dim the lights for Earth Hour conservation group urges
WASHINGTON (AP) — The World Wildlife Fund is hoping you'll turn out the lights for an hour this weekend in a show of support for the environment. Millions are expected to turn off lights and appliances for an hour at 8:30 p.m. Saturday. This...Tags: World Wildlife Fund, Washington, DC, United Nations
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NOAA official joining National Aquarium
Eric Schwaab, a longtime Marylander who's spent the last three years in the federal government overseeing fisheries and conservation efforts, is returning home to take a new post at the National Aquarium. Schwaab, currently an acting assistant secretary...
Tags: Government, Inner Harbor, Jane Lubchenco, Politics, U.S. Congress
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New York bettors score big with Oxbow at Preakness Stakes
Baltimore Sun Media GroupA pair of racing aficionados from Saratoga Springs, N.Y., spent Saturday watching the early races at Pimlico, then they put their observations to use to score a massive payday in the Preakness. Joe Cavallo, 26, and Stephanie Rafferty, 21, hit the Pick 4...Tags: Pimlico, Preakness Stakes, Springs, Kentucky Derby, Washington, DC
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Hug made major contributions to Baltimore's institutions
The obituary for Richard E. Hug (May 7) fell far short of honoring the legacy of a man who dedicated so many years to helping make Baltimore's non-profits better able to fulfill their missions. While the obit focused on Dick's political fundraising,...
Tags: Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Obituaries
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Where have all of Baltimore's colorful figures gone?
Baltimore used to be a town of colorful public characters. One of them, my father, passed away 40 years ago today. Sam Shapiro was often described as a "perennial" candidate — for mayor in 1967 and 1971 and House of Representatives in 1968 and...
Tags: Media Industry, Elections, Annapolis, Politics, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
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Isaiah 'Ike' Dixon, state delegate from Baltimore
Isaiah Dixon Jr., a jazz fan, world traveler and four-term state delegate from Baltimore City whose accomplishments included introducing a bill that made cross burnings a felony in Maryland, died of heart failure April 26 at Stella Maris Hospice in...
Tags: Elections, Government, Howard University, Annapolis, Crimes
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Volunteers pour into Fort McHenry wetlands to clean up
More than 100 gloved volunteers, some in boots and others in waist-high waders, streamed along narrow paths and historic sea walls Saturday in a secluded nook of wetlands just south of Fort McHenry, their eyes scanning for trash or the perfect spot to...
Tags: Fort McHenry, Pikesville, Pigtown, Wetlands, War of 1812
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More to Earth Day than climate scare
I was happy to see that National Aquarium CEO John Racanelli wrote about the important activities that we, as individuals and as a society, can do to protect the environment, without once mentioning the impossible goal of "stopping climate change" ("...
Tags: Global Change, Conservation, Global Warming, Ecosystems, Weather
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Take back the planet, and not just on Earth Day
For over 40 years, Earth Day has sent a powerful message: that each of us has both the capacity and the duty to support the environment that sustains us. This is certainly a message that dedicated conservationists can get behind, but what about everyday...
Tags: Conservation, Endangered Species, Healthy Diet, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Earth Day
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Looking for ways to improve Inner Harbor
City leaders hope that by this time next year they'll have returned from Annapolis with funds to put toward making the Inner Harbor what its original designers intended it to be — "a playground for Baltimoreans." "The city has changed so much...
Tags: Inner Harbor, Architecture, Annapolis, Science, Harborplace
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With rare chickweed in bloom, ecologists gather in Baltimore to celebrate biodiversity
Leading a tour of the Soldiers Delight area of western Baltimore County on Sunday afternoon, Paula Becker, an ecologist with Maryland's Department of Natural Resources, was pleased to report the first blooming of serpentine chickweed — a plant as...
Tags: Cambridge (Dorchester, Maryland), Natural Resources, Baltimore County, Nature Conservancy, Wildlife
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