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Nissan LEAF to have 8-Year/100,000 Miles Battery Warranty

Nissan Leaf battery. Photo: Nissan

Matching the Chevy Volt
As predicted here, Nissan has decided to match GM and offer a 8-year/100k miles warranty on the battery pack of its LEAF electric car. It will be great for early adopters who will have one less thing to worry about (at least for the first 8 years or 100k miles), and it will be great for the transition to electrified transportation....Read the full story on TreeHugger

Dispatch From the Gulf Oil Spill: Breaking the Law to Save the Gulf

Jamie Hinton, Chief of the Magnolia Springs Volunteer Fire Dept, considers the barges. Image courtesy of Philippe Cousteau.

With the well capped and BP's promise of a "static kill" in the coming days, a sense of optimism, while tempered, seems to be rising in some of the communities of the Gulf. But there is something else simmering amongst the people and communities here, a desire to do something, to take control and positively impact this tragedy. In the case of Jamie Hinton, Chief of the Magn...Read the full story on TreeHugger

India One Step Closer to Reintroducing Wild Cheetahs

The Asiatic cheetah once ruled that plains in India and the Middle East, but now its population is estimated to be 100 individuals or less. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons

Pursued by trophy hunters and herdsman, the Asiatic cheetah was brought to brink of extinction under the rule of the Raj and finally disappeared from India in the 1940s. Today, the species survives only in the remote grasslands of Iran but, if a conservation plan already in progress is a success, that may change....Read the full story on TreeHugger