Kyo Ya, a Japanese hideaway in the middle of the East Village, offers a menu grounded in the shapes and rhythms of the natural world.

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Restaurant Review: Kyo Ya — NYC — Restaurant Review

About 30 percent of the natural gas produced in North Dakota is burned as waste, an amount that no other domestic oil field comes close to.

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In North Dakota, Wasted Natural Gas Flickers Against the Sky

Could the manmade disaster surpass the natural one? Experts are calling the Japanese nuclear crisis the worst since Chernobyl after a third explosion and a fire at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant Monday. Radiation levels near one reactor were 400…

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Japan Crisis Worst Since Chernobyl

Now that he’s dead, Richard Holbrooke takes up the halo that is the natural prerogative of deceased American public figures. However, there have been few less qualified than he for canonization. His most memorable achievement, the Dayton Agreement was an unprincipled surrender to confessional apartheid, which pandered to war criminals to whom it gave a veto over the future of a viable Bosnian state. read more

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Richard Holbrooke: A Statesman’s Statesman – if You Take Your Diplomacy Straight up Without Principles as a Chaser

The UN turns to the web in an attempt to improve protection of the natural web of life by raising people’s awareness of the world’s protected areas.

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Website to whet wildlife appetite