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Pet Stores Agree to Put Warning Labels on Certain Flea Collars

(Dec. 16) -- If your pet wears the wrong type of flea collar, itchy bites could be the least of your worries. A group of 18 retailers, including PETCO and PetSmart, has agreed to label certain flea and tick collars in their California stores as potentially dangerous to human beings, the Natural Resources Defense Council...

Report: Historic Jamestown Could Be Wiped Off Map

Adrin Snider, Newport News Daily Press/MCT

(Sept. 1) -- Jamestown, Va., the site of the first permanent English colony in what became the United States, could be wiped off the map by climate change, researchers warned today. As the polar ice caps melt, rising sea levels could completely swamp the historical location that has stood as an icon of American history...

Report Makes It Official: Beach Most Screwed by Oil Spill Belongs to Alabama

(July 28) -- There's plenty of bad news to go around in this year's annual beach report from the Natural Resources Defense Council. The document, released today, has a special section on stretches of coast affected by the BP oil spill, and one in particular captures the sad story of the disaster's impact on the gulf....