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Consumers prefer locally grown food, survey says
Three-quarters of respondents in a new survey say they reach for locally grown foods first. The study, conducted by researchers at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, polled consumers in 10 U.S. states.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-26/s_11550.asp

Green cotton and green cameras: ask EarthTalk
This week in EarthTalk: how to identify organic cotton, and the environmental difference between digital and analog cameras.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-26/s_11549.asp

In Asia, pollution spreads as economies boom
Every two years, Indonesia loses about 15,500 square miles of forest, an area roughly the size of Switzerland, to rapacious logging.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-26/s_11557.asp

Major earthquake devastates southeast Iranian city
More than 5,000 people were killed and up to 30,000 others injured Friday in a devastating dawn quake in southeast Iran. The government rushed to provide assistance to the thousands of people who were left without shelter in the winter cold.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-26/s_11555.asp

Australians urged to try kangaroo for holiday meals
Forget turkey and mince meat pies. This season, Australians are being urged to serve native foods such as smoked kangaroo with wild lime and brandy sauce and wattle seed pavlova.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-26/s_11552.asp

Four dead in California mudslides; rescuers search for missing
Searchers slogging through waist-high muck found four people dead Friday and looked for at least 12 others missing after mudslides engulfed two camps in the San Bernardino Mountains.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-26/s_11556.asp

Bush paves way for logging in Tongass
The Bush administration opened 300,000 more acres of Alaska's Tongass National Forest on Tuesday to possible logging or other development.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-26/s_11545.asp

EPA sets new pollution standards for two-wheelers
The Environmental Protection Agency set the first new emission standards for highway motorcycles in 25 years, and the first standards for small scooters and mopeds.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-26/s_11546.asp

Cactus moth eating its way across South
Native to South America, the gray-brown moth is a minor pest in the Southeast, dining on ornamentals and a few native species. But it could cause economic and environmental havoc in the American Southwest and in Mexico, which is where it is headed.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-26/s_11548.asp

Parched South Africa sets plan to fight drought
South Africa has drawn up an emergency program to help farmers and rural poor cope with a drought which is expected to slash key crops such as corn and sugar cane, a government ministry said Tuesday.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-12-26/s_11551.asp