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...you’re looking to go farther from the Harvard Bubble, take a day trip out to the slopes. Wachusett Mountain has a shuttle service on Saturdays and Sundays that runs directly from the commuter rail station at Fitchburg to the mountain for added convenience. Information is at http://www.wachusett.com...
Climate-change critics like Republican Senator James Inhofe may rail against China, but the PNAS paper shows that while Beijing may be leading the world in carbon emissions, that output is in large part due to the fact that it is using energy to make clothes, cars and toys for the rest of us. It also demonstrates that Europe - whose per capita carbon footprint is less than half that of the U.S. - essentially imports some of its green virtue from abroad by outsourcing its carbon emissions. "It does shrink the gap somewhat between the U.S. and Europe," says Davis...
...peaks, but much of the country is a vast stretch of plains, the terai, which have long been underdeveloped and largely ignored by the two powers on either side. No longer. India has just launched a plan to spend $361 million over the next several years on roads and rail links in the terai, announcing the grants just before Nepali President Ram Baran Yadav made his Feb. 15 official visit to New Delhi. China, meanwhile, recently increased its annual aid to Nepal by 50% to about $22 million...
...Belgium's worst railway crash since 1954, a commuter train sped through a red signal and hit an oncoming locomotive on Feb. 15, killing 18 people and injuring more than 100. While investigators have not yet determined the cause of the crash, which happened outside the capital, rail workers and train drivers quickly went on strike to protest poor working conditions that may have led to the collision...
...product. For instance, UPS is now U.S. railroads' largest customer, paying a premium for the fastest trains. "Instead of putting some of our larger loads on an airplane, we can send them by truck, which has an eight times smaller carbon-dioxide footprint, or even better, rail, which is four times as energy efficient as a truck," Davis told TIME...