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Earth Faces 'Catastrophic Loss of Species'
" Life on earth is facing a major crisis with thousands of species threatened with imminent extinction - a global emergency demanding urgent action. This is the view of 19 of the world's most eminent biodiversity...Smog chokes America
"For all its outdoor splendor and fit residents, Colorado is suffering through a summer of smog. With temperatures topping 100 degrees this month in Denver and elsewhere along the populous Front Range, routine...Students Cleanup Their ‘Hood
"Students at Spain Middle School, which is nowhere near Spain, in fact the school is in Detroit Michigan. Detroit is renowned for it's urban areas that are falling apart, well these kids had enough. For a school project they utilized technologies used by NASA and marketing...California beaches sicken 1.5 million a year
"As many as 1.5 million people are sickened by bacterial pollution on Southern California beaches each year, resulting in millions of dollars in public health care costs, a new study has found. The study prepared...UPDATE: New Orleans East Landfill - State & Company To Continue Dumping Despi...
Follow-up story to original VIDEO & stories Np! 50266 & Np! 52613: "NO DUMPING!: 12 Billion tons of Waste to Be Dumped in Illegal Landfill in New Orleans East Vietnamese Community" & "Landfill Testing Called a...Google Does Good
"Some recent news about that massive search engine Google. The company has announced that it has joined a US lobbying group, the ODF Alliance, that supports the Open Document file format. Open Document is a Free (as in free speech) document format, an alternative to the...Guns for Bikes Peddling Works
"The Democratic Republic of Congo has a program that allows people to turn in their firearms for some thing useful - bikes. The program has been so successful that it is being expanded."Happy Planet Index
"The Happy Planet Index is an innovative way to track the state of the planet. The HPI lists the GDP to show that wealth doesn’t equal happiness. This is a great project, even though as a planet we have a lot of room for improvement in terms of happiness. “The...Antarctic under threat as thirst for oil grows
"Declining oil reserves and soaring prices could see desperate nations overturning a ban on drilling in the last untouched frontier -- Antarctica, an oil expert has told a scientific conference. Pressure to...
Peace and flowers out in force at Oregon Country Fair
"The Oregon Country Fair takes place on the second weekend in July every year in Veneta, Oregon, 15 miles west of Eugene, for a three-day bash with over 50,000 people participating (up to 35,000 at any given... Global Warming 'Will Cancel out Western Aid and Devastate Africa'
"Climate change could have a devastating impact on Africa, wiping out all the benefits from the measures to help the continent agreed by the world's richest nations last year.""The warning will be issued by the British Government today when it announces plans to bring poor...The Future of Free Trade and the Environment
Good article outlining the expansion of corporate power and the threats to the sovereignty, environment, health and other social issues represented by the Security and Prosperity Partnership between the US, Canada...Gitmo Gives in to Geneva
"There are some news items that I debate about posting, this is one of them. The good news is that Washington has finally said they are going to treat the detainees at Guantánamo Bay as humans and treat them in accordance of the Geneva Convention. The reason I’m...Economists Weigh in on Global Warming, Seal Trainers Offer Advice on Heart Su...
"The piece is titled, The Economic Price of Global Warming, addresses global warming from a similar perspective as I did with a post titled Global Warming is About Money, OK?. Both argue that we can't afford global warming.""But it looks like the anti-global warming moonies...Sod Off!
"Some enterprising grad students at Dalhousie in Halifax, Nova Scotia, have taken the park on the road. The architecture students were exploring the concept of public and green space and came up with this groovy way to always walk on the grass! “”We’re...Top Members Today
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