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What We've Found: Dying elephants, Japanese carbon, Van Jones goes, Speechgate, work deaths, mayor booed and a giant rat
Julia Harte with your morning fix.
What We've Found: Dying elephants, Japanese carbon, Van Jones goes, Speechgate, work deaths, mayor booed and a giant rat
Julia Harte with your morning fix.
Over 40 elephants have died in Kenya over the past two months in what the government originally thought might be an anthrax attack, but was instead found to be malnutrition: a result of the worst drought the country has faced in a decade.
In a sharp departure from his predecessor's energy policy, Japan's incoming premier pledged that by 2020 the country will emit 25 percent less carbon than it did in 1990.
President Obama's "green jobs czar" Van Jones resigned amid furor over a petition he signed in 2004 calling for an investigation into whether the government allowed the 9-11 attacks. A new "auto czar," who will oversee manufacturing policy, was appointed in his stead.
Conservatives feared that a virulent partisan agenda was embedded in Obama's first-day-of-school speech to students, which urged kids to stay in school so they'd be able to perform meaningful jobs.
Out of the 5,000 workplace fatalities in 2008, workers in finance and insurance had the highest survival rate and fishermen had the lowest, an annual Department of Labor Report revealed.
Philadelphia union members, angry about a budget proposal that would stall payments into the municipal pension plan, booed Mayor Michael Nutter as he spoke at the Sheet Metal Workers union hall before the annual Labor Day parade.
A species of rat weighing 3.3 lbs and measuring 82 centimeters from snout to tail was discovered in the crater of an extinct volcano in Papua New Guinea by researchers from the BBC Natural History Unit.
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