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AP As the summer swelters on, skyscrapers and apartments around the city will crank up air conditioners and push the city’s power grid to the limit – but some have found a cool alternative. Some office towers and buildings are keeping their AC use to a minimum by using an energy-saving system that relies on [...]

reuters Costa Rica has lost up to half of its monkeys over the last 12 years as developers expanding into their jungle habitat isolate them in small communities, scientists said on Thursday. Populations of monkeys including howler, white face, spider and squirrel monkeys have declined by the thousands, scientists at a seminar estimated. : The [...]

msnbc Crews have managed to control two huge forest fires that forced the evacuation of 14,000 people from homes, hotels and camp grounds at one of Europe’s top tourist areas, officials in Spain’s Canary Islands said Wednesday. : However, environmentalists said the fires could be a disaster for species that are unique to the Canaries. [...]