Drilling the Arctic Refuge
Won’t Solve Our Energy Problems |
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“The central energy problem facing our nation is overdependence on oil, an increasingly dangerous habit that exposes America to serious economic, environmental, and security risks. Between now and '25, American oil demand will rise by a projected 8 million barrels per day. There is no prospect whatsoever that drilling the Arctic Refuge would | |
close the gap." Republicans for Environmental Protection said. full story |
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Extinct Woodpecker Rediscovered
in Arkansas Refuge |
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The ivory-billed woodpecker, long thought to be extinct, has been spotted in the swamp forests of eastern Arkansas, according to a paper published today online by the journal "Science." The discovery comes some 60 years after the last confirmed sighting of the large woodpecker and conservationists hope it will energize efforts to safeguard | |
endangered species and their habitat. full story |
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Experts Say New Data Show Global Warming |
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Climate scientists armed with new data from deep in the ocean and far into space have found that Earth is absorbing much more heat than it is giving off, a conclusion they say validates projections of global warming. James Hansen, a prominent NASA climatologist, described the findings on the planet's out-of-balance energy exchange as a "smoking | |
gun" that should dispel doubts about forecasts of climate change. full story |
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Bill Would Make California First in the Nation
to Ban Toxics in Baby Products |
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A bill banning 2 toxic chemicals, phthalates & bisphenol-A, from children’s toys and feeding products, passed in California, on April 26. Phthalates, often used in soft PVC plastic children’s toys, have been linked in lab studies to reproductive birth defects, especially male genital defects, asthma, and hormone disruption. full story | |
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European Power Sector at a Crossroads:
Will They Choose Clean or Dirty Energy? |
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The power sector is responsible for releasing more than 1.2 billion tons of CO2 and over 2600 tons of dangerous radioactive waste every year. Today Greenpeace challenged Europe's top ten climate criminals to move to renewable energy would, secure energy supplies for the future, and avoid dangerous climate change. full story | |
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Amazon Pollution: Victims of 'Toxico' |
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Environmentalists estimate around 2.5 million acres of rainforest were compromised or destroyed in Texaco's search for oil in Ecuador. It is a disaster that has left the jungle ravaged and its people dying of cancer. To environmentalists and other activists working to defend the Amazon against incursions by multinational energy | |
companies, what has been perpetrated in the Ecuadorian jungle is a form of slow-motion genocide full story |
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Red Valley Residents Say Oil Company Is
Polluting Land, People, Animals |
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The last decade hasn't been an easy one for Tommy Nakai and the residents of Red Valley Chapter. Annual oil spills have led to contamination in the water and the ground and have caused crops to be destroyed, animals to die and family members to suffer with various illnesses associated with the oil spills. full story | |
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Climate Change Poses Threat to Food Supply, Scientists Say |
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Worldwide production of essential crops such as wheat, rice, maize and soya beans is likely to be hit much harder by global warming than previously predicted, an international conference in London has heard. Rising atmospheric temperatures, longer droughts and side-effects of both are likely to bring about a substantial reduction in | |
crop yields in the coming decades. full story |
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Ozone Layer Most Fragile On Record |
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The protective ozone layer over the Arctic has thinned this winter to the lowest levels since records began, alarming scientists who believed it had begun to heal. Research by Cambridge University shows that it is not increased pollution but a side effect of climate change that is making ozone depletion worse. At high altitudes, 50% of the | |
protective layer had been destroyed. full story |
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Interview with Doug Walsh,
Raw-foods Long Distance Hiker |
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Doug Walsh began his personal journey as a long distance hiker in 1987. After studying books on how to survive in the wilderness, Doug was ready to tackle his first long distance hike of 300 miles. Doug has come a long way on foot since that early hike. He’s climbed the 100 highest peaks in Colorado, and in '01, completed the 2,650-mile Pacific | |
Crest Trail on a raw foods diet. full story |
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In Portland, Living the Green American Dream |
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Bryan and Chris Higgins didn't set out to save the world. But one look at their home, built on a tiny lot with tall windows and radiant floor heat that result in low utility bills, and it's obvious the young couple has a mission: to leave the lightest footprint possible on mother earth's soil. They are at the forefront of a boom in green building. full story | |
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Winners of International Competition to Reduce Marine Bycatch Announced |
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WWF's International Smart Gear Competition announced three new winning solutions to prevent the accidental maiming and killing of marine mammals, juvenile fish and sea turtles that become ensnared by fishing nets and longlines, while also improving the efficiency of commercial fishing. full story | |
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Climate Change Taking a Toll on Glaciers |
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Scientists have issued a fresh warning about the effect of climate change on Antarctica, saying that more than 200 coastal glaciers are in retreat due to higher temps. Of the 244 marine glaciers that drain inland ice on the Antarctic peninsula, identified as vulnerable to global warming, 87% have receded over the last 50 years.full story | |
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Greenpeace Urges EU Transport Ministers to
Come Clean on Toxic Tankers |
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It's now two weeks since the global ban on single hull oil tankers came into force, but EU transport ministers and the European Commission have still given no guarantee that these toxic ships will be scrapped safely and cleanly," said Marietta Harjono, Greenpeace International toxics campaigner. full story | |
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Oceans Getting Louder; Effects Unclear |
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High-profile whale beachings have been linked to sonar blasts and sparked fierce public debate over the military's use of sound in defense. But a broader concern for scientists is rising levels of ocean background noise, much of it generated by commercial shipping, and whether it interferes with the way the entire sea has operated for | |
eons. full story |
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Honduran Farm Workers
Sue Companies Over Pesticide |
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More than 600 Honduran banana pickers are suing some of the world's biggest fruit growers and chemical manufacturers, claiming they distributed and used a US-banned pesticide in Central America that was known to cause sterility. The plaintiffs, who worked on banana plantations, were injured by their exposure to the pesticide | |
DBCP, banned by the US EPA in 1979. full story |
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Tar Oozing out of Former Newburgh Utility Site |
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A former gas plant site in Newburgh is leaching tar into the Hudson River, accounting for the largest contamination among nearly two dozen similar sites along the river. These long-defunct manufactured-gas plants once supplied light and heat to communities from the late 1800s into the first half of the 20th century. full story | |
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Tallevast Plume Reaches 131 Acres |
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The plume of groundwater contamination from the former Loral American Beryllium plant has spread over at least 131 acres in this small residential community, more than 2½X larger than the most recent estimate. And Lockheed Martin is not done looking for cancer-causing solvents. A plume has slithered under most of the homes surrounding the old | |
plant and reached out into farmland to the se and nw. full story |
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Climate Change Wreaking Havoc with Seasons |
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Climate change is playing havoc with the timing of the seasons and could drastically alter the landscape, according to one of the most comprehensive studies of its kind. Frogs have begun spawning in Britain as early as October, oaks are coming into leaf three weeks earlier than they were 50 years ago and there were an unprecedented | |
4,000 sightings of bumblebees by the end of January this year. full story |
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New Zealand to Protest Japan's
Bigger Whale Kill Plan at Whaling Meeting |
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New Zealand on Thursday rejected Japan's plan to expand its slaughter of Antarctic whales, saying it will fight the move at an International Whaling Commission meeting next month. Japan announced last week it intends to seek permission to conduct a "broader and more comprehensive" research whaling program in the Antarctic at the | |
commission's annual meeting. full story |
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Safety fears over GM Rice Warrant Caution |
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Greenpeace China announced on Wednesday that genetically modified rice "appears to have been planted and sold illegally in China for the last two years" according to its findings in central China's Hubei Province. More alarmingly, two of the samples tested positive as Bt rice, genetically engineered to contain an inbuilt toxin. full story | |
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Developing Nations Ripe for
Wind, Solar Energy, U.N. Says |
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Developing countries could install hundreds of thousands of megawatts of renewable energy capacity and help relieve poverty and volatile oil bills in those nations, U.N. officials said Thursday. SWERA, a group of 25 global institutions organized by the U.N.'s Environment program, found renewable wind and solar power potential in 13 developing | |
nations in Africa, Asia, and South and Central America. full story |
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Wastewater Pollutes Four of America's
Ten Most Endangered Rivers |
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Hundreds of outfall pipes dump raw sewage directly into the Susquehanna River, making it the most polluted river in the US.. "All across America, rivers link one town's toilets to the next town's faucets," said Rebecca Wodder, president of American Rivers. "And when it rains, sewage pours into those rivers, billions of gallons of it every year." Bush is | |
cutting the financial assistance needed to remedy the problem. full story |
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Anti-War Activists Promote
‘Tax Resistance’ As Direct Protest |
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By April 15, the IRS estimates that 132 million individual income tax returns will be filed and that two trillion dollars will be collected for the US Treasury. But in protest of the federal government’s military expenditures, an estimated 10,000 people will not file their taxes or will deliberately withhold money from the IRS this year. full story | |
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Drilling Where Antelope Play |
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On a windswept butte in the upper Green River valley, biologist Steve Belinda watches a herd of pronghorn antelope as a line of red Halliburton trucks rumble down a dusty road below. In Wyoming more than 100,000 deer, antelope, and elk depart the deep snows of the mountains every autumn to spend their winters here, a winter | |
concentration larger than in Yellowstone National Park. full story |
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States Take Clean-air Measures
into Their Own Hands |
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Climate change is emerging as a major political issue despite Bush's skepticism. In the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia last week, 12 states (California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington), along with some cities argued for | |
reducing CO2 emissions under current law. full story |
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U.S Nuclear Hypocrisy Fuelled By Arrival of Experimental Plutonium Shipment |
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A ship containing a cargo of experimental nuclear fuel made from weapons-grade plutonium arrived in the US today after a 4000 mile round trip. The cargo was taken from US military plutonium stocks, shipped across the Atlantic to France, where it was met by a storm of protest, transformed into mixed oxide nuclear reactor fuel and sent | |
back to the US. "While the U.S. warns the world about the risks of proliferation of weapons material, here it is engaged in the very act it condemns." full story |
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Japanese Whaling Ships Leave for Controversial Research Hunt off Northern Coast |
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Six ships left a port in northern Japan on Monday for a whale hunt in an offshore research program. Environmental groups and anti-whaling countries, including the US and Britain, say Japan's research whaling program is a thinly disguised commercial whaling venture, stressing that meat from the whales is sold to supermarkets and restaurants. full story | |
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Ozone Protective Gases Found to
Boost Global Temperatures |
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Ozone friendly substitutes for gases that deplete the Earth's protective ozone layer are not so friendly to the global climate. Chlorofluorocarbons have been widely used as refrigerants and aerosol propellants for years, but they cause holes to appear over polar regions. Some of the alternatives are powerful greenhouse gases themselves. full story | |
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Brazil Marshalls Defenses to
Fight Amazon Internationalization |
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The Brazilian military is readying itself to defend the country's sovereignty over the Amazon rainforest should there be a threat of foreign military occupation, a top admiral told the Brazilian Senate on Friday. Brazil's Amazon rainforest, is coveted by the world community because its drinking water and forest resources are seen as | |
"collective public goods." full story |
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Afghan City Mourns Its Lost Children,
Looks Back to Taliban |
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In the photograph, 12-year-old Mohammed Tahir looks barely conscious. A bloodied rag covers his left hand, where the kidnappers hacked off his finger and sent it, along with the picture, to his family. "The disappearances have sparked a political firestorm in the deeply conservative city. Many people have begun to feel life was better under | |
the harsh Islamic law of the Taliban, because they could at least guarantee the safety of their children." full story |
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Johnson Drops Kids Pesticide Study
To Avoid Losing Top EPA Job |
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A study planned by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that would pay parents to test their childrens' reaction to pesticides nearly proved to be an insurmountable stumbling block for the nominee to the agency's top post. The CHEERS program would ask 60 families with children from 9 to 12 months old to volunteer | |
for the study. All participating families will be required to have their children exposed to pesticides through routine spraying in their homes. full story |
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Livestock Agents Slaughter
America's Last Wild Buffalo |
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Early this morning, two horse trailers driven by the Montana Department of Livestock (DOL) carried eight of America's last wild genetically pure buffalo to a slaughterhouse, while three yearlings were taken to a quarantine facility, and three others were released at Horse Butte, according to a U.S. Forest Service law enforcement agent. full story | |
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Alaska Starts Mass Slaughter of Grizzly Bears
to Boost Moose Populations |
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For the first time since Alaska became a U.S. state, hunters will be allowed to use bait to lure and kill grizzly bears under a program intended to boost moose populations in parts of interior Alaska. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game began issuing permits last week for a predator-control program aimed at clearing out | |
the majority of grizzlies in a 3000-square-mile area near the Canadian border. full story |
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Paraguay Rejects Plan to Protect
Last Untouched Tribe |
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Paraguay's Congress rejected Thursday a proposal to protect the last Indian tribe in South America not in the Amazon region to have avoided contact with outsiders. Indian rights organizations warned that the nomadic Ayoreos are doomed to die or be run off their land by ranchers unless their territory is turned into a reserve. | |
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Florida Law Enforcing Parental Notice of Abortions
to Stick This Time |
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In spite of warnings from child welfare advocates who fear for survivors of incest or domestic violence, conservative Florida lawmakers are again presenting legislation that would require doctors to notify parents of minors seeking to obtain abortions. With a recent amendment to the state constitution elevating so-called "parental rights" over young | |
women’s privacy rights state lawmakers can now pass a bill with little fear of judicial override. full story |
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Senators Bill Nelson and Barbara Boxer
Block EPA Chief Nomination |
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Boxer and Nelson said they would block the nomination of Stephen Johnson to head the EPA until they cancel a program to test pesticide exposure of children in Florida. "Testing pesticides on small children and infants is wrong. We already know it's bad for them. This program may just be the tip of the iceberg as to what's going to come | |
from this administration regarding human testing" Boxer said. full story |
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Philly to Defy Telecom Giants and
Set Up Public Wireless Network |
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In a move that ruffles the feathers of major internet service providers, the govt. of Philadelphia says it will go ahead with plans to establish a municipally owned, low-cost wireless network serving the entire city. The program runs on a "co-op wholesale model" in which a nonprofit corp. established by the city administers the network and subcontracts work | |
to ISPs and others. full story |
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Extinction Forecast for One-Quarter of All Primates |
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Human encroachment, hunting and illegal trade are wiping out the world's apes, monkeys, lemurs and other primates, according to a new report released today by the world's top primate scientists. Twenty-five percent, or one in four, of the 625 primate species and subspecies on Earth are at risk of extinction, the report demonstrates. full story | |
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When Chlorine + Antimicrobials =
Unintended Consequences |
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Recent research shows that the triclosan antimicrobial agent used in dishwashing soaps reacts with chlorinated water to produce significant quantities of chloroform and that the reaction of triclosan with chlorine may be producing highly chlorinated dioxins in the presence of sunlight. Toothpastes, deodorants, lotions, hand soaps, etc. contain | |
triclosan. As it flows down drains, it is making its way into surface waters, sewage treatment plants, the bile of fish, and breast milk full story |
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Radioactive Sludge from Chalk River Lab
Poured on to Soil |
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A nuclear safety inspector discovered only by chance last fall that Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. had continued to dump tens of thousands of gallons of hazardous radioactive waste into the ground for a decade after promising to stop, federal regulators were told yesterday. Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission officials admitted "losing track" of the | |
problem for the last 7 years full story |
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Colorado Governor Vetoes
Emergency Contraception Information Bill |
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Governor Bill Owens vetoed a bill Tuesday that would have required Colorado hospitals to inform sexual assault survivors about emergency contraption pills. Under House Bill 1042, all hospitals in the state would have had to inform rape victims who were not yet pregnant about emergency contraception. Govenor Owens is a Catholic. full story | |
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Showdown Brewing Between
PATRIOT Act and SAFE Act |
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With key measures of the Patriot Act set to expire this year, and Bush pushing hard for their renewal, critics and proponents of the sweeping legislation are gearing up for a political battle over the balance between national security and individual privacy and liberty. The alternative..The Security and Freedom Enhancement (SAFE) Act. | |
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Greenpeace Flagship Sails Into
South Korean Ecopolis |
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Docked at Busan Maritime University, the Rainbow Warrior II was the headquarters for a team of Korean Federation for Environment Movement and Greenpeace activists. They issued a joint statement calling for a national ban on the trade of whale meat and are campaigning to raise public awareness about Korea’s whale population before IWC's | |
57th meeting. full story |
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Lawmakers Investigate Fraud Allegations
at Yucca Mountain |
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Nevada's Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump won't be built unless the Energy Dept. is confident of the supporting science after investigating e-mails that showed fabricated data. In one e-mail a USGS scientist wrote: "I don't have a clue when these programs were installed. So I've made up the dates and names. "This is as good as it's going to get. | |
If they need more proof, I will be happy to make up more stuff." full story |
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CDC Report Criticizes Plan to Dump
Toxic Nerve-agent Waste in Delaware River |
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Federal health officials say plans to dump 1,200 tons of a nerve-agent byproduct into the Delaware River should not go forward because of concerns for aquatic life and because it is unclear whether the Army could destroy the deadly agent before shipping it to South Jersey. The CDC reviewed the plan to treat and dispose VX, a toxic nerve agent that can | |
kill on contact. full story |
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Europe Leaves Modified Corn Inquiry to U.S. |
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Despite European abhorrence of all things genetically modified, Eu. officials say they will let the US take the lead in untangling how unapproved corn entered Europe over the last 4 years. Syngenta, the Swiss biotech co. that produced the corn, said it had inadvertently mixed up the legal Bt-11 with the untested Bt-10, which contains a gene | |
that confers resistance to the antibiotic ampicillin. full story |
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AFRICA: Climate Change Becoming
a Matter of Life and Death |
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Mount Kilimanjaro is drying up. Climate change, coupled with widespread deforestation of the slopes, is melting the ice and snow that has crowned Africa's highest peak for more than 11,000 years, dramatically altering the surrounding ecosystem. Scientists warn most of the glaciers may be gone by 2020. full story | |
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Activists Introduce Legislation to Curb
Inhumane Farming Methods |
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Practices employed by agribusinesses to convert living animals into tender delicacies are coming under fire in a number of states as rights activists move to expand cruelty prohibitions and spread awareness. How do the the duck and goose livers that produce "foie gras" become so tender and flavorful?: by force-feeding cornmeal through a hard | |
tube shoved down the bird’s esophagus, causing its liver to bloat up to 10x its normal size. full story |
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Farmers Join Greenpeace to Protect our Food
from Biotech Industry Buy-out |
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The GE industry could come a step closer to "owning" our food, through a disastrous decision by the European Patent Office due tomorrow. "Monsanto's seed-emporium, has already been granted dozens of patents on seeds in Europe. They are trying to gain complete control of agriculture, from seed to food. full story | |
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Indigenous Peoples Venezuela Protest Coal Mining |
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Bare-chested, clad in traditional dress and wielding bows and arrows, hundreds of representatives of the Barí, Yukpa and Wayúu indigenous peoples from the westernmost region of Venezuela marched on the capital to demand a halt to coal mining near their lands in the Sierra de Perijá mountain range. full story | |
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World's Biggest Iceberg Begins Moving after
Blocking Penguins Food Supplies |
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The world's biggest iceberg has begun moving again, nearly 3 months after it ran aground, threatening penguin breeding colonies and blocking ships supplying food and fuel to Antarctic research stations. The giant iceberg, known as B15A, is now moving slowly out of McMurdo Sound, where it had blocked sea access. full story | |
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Transgenic Corn Sent to Europe
Conveys Antibiotic Resistance |
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Syngenta's unintended distribution across the EU of a genetically modified corn variety that was not approved has got officials and environmental groups demanding answers from and from Syngenta and the U.S. govt. European officials were alarmed to learn from company reps Thursday that the unauthorized corn carries a gene that confers | |
resistance to a widely used antibiotic full story |
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Rare Turtles Make Surprise Return
to Beaches Battered by Asian Tsunami |
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Endangered marine turtles have beaten the tourists back to the beaches barely 100 days after the Boxing Day tsunami. Scores of the reptiles have been spotted laying eggs at the usual Sri Lankan nesting sites on the southern and western coasts and more turtles are expected at breeding beaches in 10 other tsunami-affected countries around | |
the Indian Ocean. full story |
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Environmental Groups Are Praising
the EPA for Updating Cancer-Risk Guidelines |
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A remarkable thing happened here last week: the EPA announced a set of guidelines, and environmental groups were largely complimentary in response. The agency's new approach to assessing chemicals that might cause cancer won praise for taking into account, for the 1st time, the likelihood that children may be more vulnerable to exposure | |
than adults. full story |
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Controversial Hydroelectric Dam in Laos
Generates Financial Support |
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Funding was assured today for a controversial project to dam a tributary of the Mekong River in Laos to provide power to Laos and Thailand. Development banks say the hydroelectric project will help lift Laos out of poverty, but environmental groups say it will displace indigenous people & ruin the area for fish, farming, & drinking water. full story | |
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Oil Tanker Phase Out Threatens
Asian Workers and Environment |
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A worldwide ban on single hulled oil tankers that enters into force tomorrow threatens to dump thousands of toxic ships on Asian and Turkish beaches. India, China & Turkey will break up European vessels in appalling conditions with no protection from explosions, asbestos & a cocktail of toxic chemicals contained in the ships. full story | |
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Grim Drought Threatens Spring Ploughing |
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House Condemns Patriot Act
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Montana lawmakers overwhelmingly passed what its sponsor called the nation's most strongly worded criticism of the federal Patriot Act on Friday, uniting politicians of all stripes. The resolution, which already galloped through the Senate and passed the House 88-12 Friday, must survive a final vote before it officially passes. full story
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E-Mails Reveal Government Fraud in Nuclear Site Study
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Government employees studying whether Yucca Mountain in Nevada would be a suitable place to bury nuclear waste acknowledged in e-mail messages to each other that they had made up details about how they had done their research in order to appear to meet quality standards, according to some of the messages made
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public on Friday. full story
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Weed Killer Poses Dangers to Frogs
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A University of Pittsburgh researcher has discovered that a popular chemical designed to kill weeds may also be highly deadly to baby frogs. Pitt biologist Rick Relyea found that the herbicide Roundup, the 2nd most commonly used herbicide in the US, caused major declines in tadpole population size and diversity when
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applied at manufacturer-recommended concentrations. full story
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Global warming: Shutdown of Atlantic Current
Would Ravage Food Stocks
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If the North Atlantic Ocean's circulation system is shut down, an apocalyptic global-warming scenario, the impact on the world's food supplies would be disastrous, a study said Thursday. The shutdown would cause global stocks of plankton, a vital early link in the food chain, to decline by 1/5 while stocks in the N. Atlantic would
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shrink by over 1/2. full story
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Large Indigenous Territories Receive Protection in Peru
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The Peruvian govt. today announced the creation of one of the largest combined protected areas and indigenous territories in the world. WWF, which has been involved in the establishment of the 2.7 million-hectare Alto Purús area in the Amazonian forest, says it is a significant move in improving protection of indigenous people. full story
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Poor People’s Advocates Resist
‘Outrageous’ Budget Proposal
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Poor people’s advocates say Congress is still sacrificing programs for the nation’s neediest in order to prop up defense spending and provide tax cuts to the wealthy. The most recent versions of the '06 budget proposals, passed by the Senate and House on 3/17, shocked and distressed human services advocacy groups full story
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CO2 Rise Forces Energy Rethink
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CO2 emissions are rising rapidly in the UK, forcing the govt to consider a range of new measures to keep its pledge to combat climate change. Figures show that CO2 emissions have risen rapidly in '03 and '04. With the last Labour manifesto pledging to cut '90 levels emissions by 20% by 2010, they have realised that
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drastic action is required to tackle the problem. full story
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Rise of Extremism, Islamic Law Threaten
Iraqi Women under New Government
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The recent murders of several Iraqi women, active in human rights work, govt. service & business, along with the ongoing economic crisis under US military occupation & the possible introduction of fundamentalist Islamic law into Iraq's new constitution, suggest that conditions for women in Iraq continue to decay.
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full story
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EPA Says Children May Be More
Vulnerable than Adults to Carcinogens
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Previous EPA guidelines, last revised in '86, said cancer risks to children were assumed to be no greater than to adults. In the first such update in 20 years, the EPA said children 2 years old and younger might be 10X more vulnerable than adults, children, ages 2 and 16 might be 3X more vulnerable to certain chemicals. full story
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