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George Bush is behaving like a furious defaulter whose home is about to be repossessed. Smashing the porcelain, ripping the doors off their hinges, he is determined that there will be nothing worth owning by the time the bastards kick him out. His midnight regulations, opening America's wilderness to logging and mining, trashing pollution controls, tearing up conservation laws, will do almost as much damage in the last 60 days of his presidency as he achieved in the foregoing 3000(1).
Posted by admin on Friday, November 28, 2008
Read full article: 'Preventing runaway climate change means total decarbonisation' Comments?
Consumers around the world want governments to stop haggling and start acting on climate change, survey finds • Nearly half of all 12,000 respondents in 12 countries chose climate change ahead of the economy
Posted by admin on Friday, November 28, 2008
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A new and insidious environmental threat has been detected in North American lakes by researchers from Queen's and York universities. Along with scientists from several Canadian government laboratories, the team has documented biological damage caused by declining levels of calcium in many temperate, soft-water lakes.
Posted by admin on Friday, November 28, 2008
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Are you ready to pay for the next Chernobyls---in advance? Are you willing to have nuclear power prevent a solution to the climate crisis?
Posted by admin on Saturday, April 26, 2008
Read full article: 'Making You Pay for the Next Chernobyl ... in Advance!' 1 Comment
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It looks like chickens deserve more respect. Scientists are fleshing out the proof that today's broiler-fryer is descended from the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex. And, not a surprise, they confirmed a close relationship between mastodons and elephants.
Posted by admin on Friday, April 25, 2008
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Human beings may have had a brush with extinction 70,000 years ago, an extensive genetic study suggests. The human population at that time was reduced to small isolated groups in Africa, apparently because of drought, according to an analysis released Thursday.
Posted by admin on Friday, April 25, 2008
Read full article: 'Study says near extinction 70,000 years ago threatened human species' Comments?
Most scientists involved in Aids research believe that a vaccine against HIV is further away than ever and some have admitted that effective immunisation against the virus may never be possible, according to an unprecedented poll conducted by The Independent.
Posted by admin on Thursday, April 24, 2008
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What Nuclear Renaissance? 501 Reads
![]() The fact is, nuclear power has not recovered from the crisis that hit it three decades ago with the reactor fire at Browns Ferry, Alabama, in 1975 and the meltdown at Three Mile Island in 1979. Then came what seemed to be the coup de grâce: Chernobyl in 1986. The last nuclear power plant ordered by a US utility, the TVA's Watts Bar 1, began construction in 1973 and took twenty-three years to complete. Nuclear power has been in steady decline worldwide since 1984, with almost as many plants canceled as completed since then.
Posted by admin on Thursday, April 24, 2008
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The Hoax of Eco-Friendly Nuclear Energy 702 Reads
![]() Nuclear advocates in government and the nuclear industry are engaged in a massive, heavily financed drive to revive atomic power in the United States-with most of the mainstream media either not questioning or actually assisting in the promotion.
Posted by admin on Friday, February 08, 2008
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Hubble finds double Einstein ring 980 Reads
![]() The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other like a bull's-eye pattern. The double-ring pattern is caused by the complex bending of light from two distant galaxies strung directly behind a foreground massive galaxy, like three beads on a string.
Posted by admin on Friday, January 11, 2008
Read full article: 'Hubble finds double Einstein ring' 21 Comments
Ladies and gentlemen, I have the answer! Incredible as it might seem, I have stumbled across the single technology which will save us from runaway climate change! From the goodness of my heart, I offer it to you for free. No patents, no small print, no hidden clauses. Already this technology, a radical new kind of carbon capture and storage, is causing a stir among scientists. It is cheap, it is efficient and it can be deployed straight away. It is called … leaving fossil fuels in the ground.
Posted by admin on Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Read full article: 'The Real Answer to Climate Change Is to Leave Fossil Fuels in the Ground' Comments?
WASHINGTON - December 5 -At a Department of Energy (DOE) hearing today, a coalition of environmental and security groups detailed their concerns over the proposed plan to transport nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain, Nevada for storage. Citing serious security, environmental, and public health threats associated with shipping nuclear waste through residential areas across the United States, the groups stated that the Yucca Mountain plan has fundamental flaws and should not go forward.
Posted by admin on Wednesday, December 12, 2007
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A first ever national survey of nurses’ exposures to chemicals, pharmaceuticals and radiation on the job suggests there are links between serious health problems such as cancer, asthma, miscarriages and children's birth defects and the duration and intensity of these exposures. The survey included 1,500 nurses from all 50 states.
Posted by admin on Wednesday, December 12, 2007
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Rachel Carson, Mass Murderer? 1975 Reads
![]() Sometimes you find mass murderers in the most unlikely places. Take Rachel Carson. She was, by all accounts, a mild-mannered writer for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service-hardly a sociopath's breeding ground. And yet, according to many in the media, Carson has more blood on her hands than Hitler.
Posted by admin on Friday, September 21, 2007
Read full article: 'Rachel Carson, Mass Murderer?' 514 Comments
Food Additives May Cause Hyperactivity 1074 Reads
![]() WASHINGTON - Certain artificial food colorings and other additives can worsen hyperactive behaviors in children aged 3 to 9, British researchers reported on Wednesday.
Posted by admin on Friday, September 07, 2007
Read full article: 'Food Additives May Cause Hyperactivity' 23 Comments
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