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Al Gore at SapphireNow 2010
Champion   Climate   Launches   Photos   Wikipedia :Al Gore   		 The Examiner 
Al Gore unhinged: Former VP launches tirade against climate change dissenters
Tue 9 Aug 2011
| Manmade climate change theory champion Al Gore typically forbids recording of his paid speeches to private green interests.  Audio of a recent speech given by the former vice president has been... (photo: Creative Commons / Tom Raftery)
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 18, 2010, before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on issues related to offshore oil and gas exploration including the accident involving the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico.
Anchorage   Arctic   Obama   Photos   Wikipedia :Ken Salazar   		 Kansas City Star 
Interior Secretary Salazar says Obama backs more oil drilling in Alaska
Tue 9 Aug 2011
More News | Interior Secretary Ken Salazar came to Anchorage on Monday and said the Obama administration supports more oil drilling in Alaska, potentially including offshore Arctic development. | Sala... (photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Devotees being carried on ponies to the shrine of Hindu God 'Shiva' during the annual Amarnath Yatra (Pilgrimage), some 14 Km from Baltal in Indian-administered Kashmir on June 16, 2009,Some 600,000 pilgrims are expected to visit the holy Amarnath Cave this season where a Shiva Lingam, an ice stalagmite shaped as a fallus and symbolising the Hindu God Shiva, stands for worship. The Lingam which forms naturally every year in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, measures 12 feet in height, the Shrine Board authorities said.  Newstrack India  Mon 8 Aug 2011
Amarnath Yatra: An environmental disaster in the making
| Srinagar, Aug.8 (ANI): The Amarnath Shiv Lingam has melted once again, ten days before the yatra has ended officially. No one should be surprised or shocked. For the amount of pressure that the shri... (photo: WN / Imran Nissar)
Disaster   Kashmir   People   Photos   Wikipedia: Amarnath Temple  
Fishes - Market - Seafood  DNA India  Mon 8 Aug 2011
MV Rak oil spill: Experts advise against eating sea food
| Oil spills in the Arabian Sea, off the Mumbai coast, seem to have become an annual affair. MV Rak, the Panama-flagged cargo ship that sank off Mumbai on Thursday, started leaking oil late on Saturda... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Food   Mumbai   Photos   Pollution   Wikipedia: Oil spill  
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U.S. Navy Seabees, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Two Three (NMCB-23), secure a severely damaged school in Fallujah, Iraq. WorldNews.com Mon 8 Aug 2011
Iraq, U.S. and SOFA: Legal Immunity or Illegal Impunity?
Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. | "The American pact is nothing but humiliation to the Iraqis. This is against the interest and the sovereignty of ... (photo: US Navy / Journalist 1st Class Jeremy L. Wood)
Iraq   Photos   US   War   Wikipedia: Post-invasion Iraq (2003 to present)  
People stand on the Juhu beach contaminated by oil leaking from a merchant ship that sank off the Arabian Sea coast three days ago in Mumbai, India, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011. The Telegraph India Sun 7 Aug 2011
Oil spill threatens Mumbai coast
Mumbai, Aug. 7: Oil spills have been reported from two ships off the Mumbai coast, with patches of oil reaching Juhu beach this morning and confronting the city with an e... (photo: AP / Rajanish Kakade)
Maritime   Mumbai   Oil spill   Photos   Wikipedia: Mumbai  
Plastic bags - Plastic - Environment The Siasat Daily Sat 6 Aug 2011
'Paid carry-bags will not solve plastic menace'
| Hyderabad, August 6: The practice of selling carry bags which were freely available at retail outlets and malls before the plastic ban, has evoked mixed response, rangi... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Hyderabad   Photos   Plastic   Society   Wikipedia: Plastic bag  
Drinking water is water of sufficiently high quality that can be consumed or used with low risk of immediate or long term harm. Chicago Tribune Sat 6 Aug 2011
Toxic chromium found in Chicago drinking water
| Chicago's first round of testing for a toxic metal called hexavalent chromium found that levels in local drinking water are more than 11 times higher than a health stan... (photo: WN / Priya Dashini)
Chicago   Photos   Toxic   Water   Wikipedia: Chromium  
Sailors attached to the Navy Support Salvage (NAVSALV) unit work with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on simulated oil spill disaster on Lake Michigan. Herald Tribune Fri 5 Aug 2011
EPA head: Wetlands to be focus of gulf restoration
| BALTIMORE - Addressing wetlands loss will be a major component of an upcoming report on Gulf Coast oil spill recovery, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency s... (photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Douglas Mappin)
Gulf   Photos   Recovery   Restoration   Wikipedia :EPA  
In this May 11, 2011 file photo, possible 2012 presidential hopeful, Republican Donald Trump speaks during a luncheon with the Greater Nashua Chamber of Commerce in Nashua, N.H. The Guardian Fri 5 Aug 2011
Donald Trump pledges 'any legal means' fight against windfarm
| US tycoon saying proposed offshire turbines will 'compromise' golf resort – and ruin his sea view Donald Trump's golf resort under construction on the Menie estate, A... (photo: AP / Jim Cole)
Fight   Legal   Photos   Pledges   Wikipedia :Donald Trump  
women farmers working in the farm - India The Times Of India Fri 5 Aug 2011
Timely weather alerts for farmers reap Rs 50,000 crore dividend
NEW DELHI: In a country where close to 60 percent of the 1.21 billion population still depends on agriculture for a living, short and timely alerts to farmers about the w... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)
Agriculture   Delhi   Photos   Weather   Wikipedia: Weather  


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Rice Plants Fungi could protect rice against climate change, researchers say The Guardian
Grilled meat (steaks) in Czech Republic How to eat well and save the planet, too Khaleej Times
Hamandir Sahib or Darbar Sahib (also known as the Golden Temple). The holiest shrine in Sikhism located in the city of Amritsar, India. PPCB to gauge pollution around Golden Temple The Times Of India
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U.S. Navy Seabees, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Two Three (NMCB-23), secure a severely damaged school in Fallujah, Iraq. Iraq, U.S. and SOFA: Legal Immunity or Illegal Impunity? WorldNews.com
In this June 20, 2010 photo, men walk in an oil slick covering a creek near Bodo City in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Nigeria oil spills have created ecological disaster, report says The Los Angeles Times
In this March 24, 2011 photo, smoke rises from an illegal oil refinery in Ogoniland, outside Port Harcourt, in Nigeria's Delta region. Nigeria needs 'world's biggest ever cleanup' The Daily Telegraph Australia
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Fishes - Market - Seafood MV Rak oil spill: Experts advise against eating sea food DNA India
People stand on the Juhu beach contaminated by oil leaking from a merchant ship that sank off the Arabian Sea coast three days ago in Mumbai, India, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011. Oil spill threatens Mumbai coast The Telegraph India
In this June 20, 2010 photo, men walk in an oil slick covering a creek near Bodo City in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Nigeria oil spills have created ecological disaster, report says The Los Angeles Times
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Ladakh Glaciers Largely Unaffected by Climate Change: Experts Ladakh Glaciers Largely Unaffected by Climate Change: Experts Kashmir Observer
In this image made from footage released by the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano wearing protective gear, is briefed during his inspection tour at the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant at Okuma, northeastern Japan, on Monday July 25, 2011. Japan sacks three nuclear power officials in shake-up BBC News
a road through forest - road is development kay Taking the high road to development The Hindu
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