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UPI Almanac for Sunday, May 27, 2012.
From Atlantic beaches to Midwestern prairies and Hawaiian forests, one-third of the 800 U.S. bird species are in danger, a report released Thursday said.
An attempt by a California school district to make its athletic fields greener in both senses of the word by using compost fertilizer has upset the neighbors.
A bald eagle pair has become the first of their species to become parents in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park in 70 years.
Murray Bookchin, a 1930s leftist whose writings on ecology became an inspiration for Green parties, has died at the age of 85 at his Vermont home.
Jane Day, a journalist who worked for the National Observer newspaper and United Press wire service, has died of cancer in Camden, Maine, at 82.
A new report based on focus groups and surveys on how schools in Newton, Mass., teach social studies finds teachers overwhelmed and parents concerned.
The week I went to work at the Environmental Protection Agency in June of 1972, Administrator William Ruckelshaus issued an order banning the domestic productio

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Palestinian  Security Forces Patrol the Border With Egypt.
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A members of the Hamas security forces patrol the border area between Gaza and Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip May 20, 2013. Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again for four days, stranding hundreds of Palestinian travellers, As Tunnels between Egypt and Gaza closed and border was declared as military zone. Palestinian security forces patrol around the border, witnesses said. UPI/Ismael Mohamad