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August 27, 2006
Ocean Currents, Dead Zones, and Global Warming
By:RowanFor the fifth year in a row, a dead zone has formed off the Oregon Coast. First documented in 2002, the dead zone has formed for each of the last five years - though in two of those years the...
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I had the great experience of being interviewed by the Yuba Gals - producers of Peak Moment Television. Peak Moment is a project of the for Alliance for a Post-Petroleum Local Economy (APPLE) out of Nevada City, California. They are...
August 24, 2006
Peak Moment Television
By:RowanI had the great experience of being interviewed by the Yuba Gals - producers of Peak Moment Television. Peak Moment is a project of the for Alliance for a Post-Petroleum Local Economy (APPLE) out of Nevada City, California. They are...
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By: Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner "It is like paradise and hell. They throw our petitions in the dustbin. They have everything. We have nothing... If we protest, they send soldiers. They sign agreements with us and then ignore...
A Little Poverty Never Hurt Anybody - Ruthless Exploiters, Inc.
By:RowanBy: Jason Miller of Thomas Paine's Corner "It is like paradise and hell. They throw our petitions in the dustbin. They have everything. We have nothing... If we protest, they send soldiers. They sign agreements with us and then ignore...
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Greenpeace has filmed up to 10cm of oil on the seabed off of Lebanon. The spill is from an oil storage area bombed by Israel. Cleanup of the spill has not progressed at all because Israel will not allow flights...
August 23, 2006
Lebanon Oil Spill Hits Seabed
By:RowanGreenpeace has filmed up to 10cm of oil on the seabed off of Lebanon. The spill is from an oil storage area bombed by Israel. Cleanup of the spill has not progressed at all because Israel will not allow flights...
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On February 24, 2006, CNN aired a clip called Oil and Terror. In it the talk about the attempted attack on a Saudi refinery, and about the ongoing conflict in Nigeria (with Shell). The commentator (Ali Velshi) notes that oil...
August 17, 2006
Peak Oil and Petro Terrorism
By:RowanOn February 24, 2006, CNN aired a clip called Oil and Terror. In it the talk about the attempted attack on a Saudi refinery, and about the ongoing conflict in Nigeria (with Shell). The commentator (Ali Velshi) notes that oil...
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According to a report in Nature, transgenic grass produced by The Scotts Company has escaped its test plot, and been found almost two miles away. The grass is resistant to Roundup and other herbicides. The bioengineered grass could pose a...
August 14, 2006
Escaped Transgenic Grass In Oregon
By:RowanAccording to a report in Nature, transgenic grass produced by The Scotts Company has escaped its test plot, and been found almost two miles away. The grass is resistant to Roundup and other herbicides. The bioengineered grass could pose a...
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According to a report in the August 11, 2006 BBC, the Greenland ice sheet is "speeding up." Using a calculation that measures earth's gravity and mass, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have determined that the ice sheet...
August 11, 2006
Greenland Ice sheet Melt Accelerating
By:RowanAccording to a report in the August 11, 2006 BBC, the Greenland ice sheet is "speeding up." Using a calculation that measures earth's gravity and mass, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have determined that the ice sheet...
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Is it just me, or does there seem to have been an awful lot of oil spills and pipeline leaks recently? Cebu City - Phillipines 8/06 Lebanon 7/06 Cumberland County - New Jersey 8/06 Venezuela 8/06 Nigeria 7/06 Russia 7/06...
August 6, 2006
There Seems To Be A Lot Of Oil Spills
By:RowanIs it just me, or does there seem to have been an awful lot of oil spills and pipeline leaks recently? Cebu City - Phillipines 8/06 Lebanon 7/06 Cumberland County - New Jersey 8/06 Venezuela 8/06 Nigeria 7/06 Russia 7/06...
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An interesting UK media analysis by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has concluded that some British reporting on climate change amounts to "climate porn." "Apocalyptic visions of climate change used by newspapers, environmental groups and the UK government...
August 3, 2006
Global Warming Overstated?
By:RowanAn interesting UK media analysis by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has concluded that some British reporting on climate change amounts to "climate porn." "Apocalyptic visions of climate change used by newspapers, environmental groups and the UK government...
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By: Mathew Maavak A deadly combination of heat and drought is slowly wreaking a trail of devastation across much of the globe, and the full extend of this scourge will only be felt as winter nears....
August 1, 2006
Along with Peak Oil, Peak Grain and Peak Water the world enters crisis overload
By:MathewBy: Mathew Maavak A deadly combination of heat and drought is slowly wreaking a trail of devastation across much of the globe, and the full extend of this scourge will only be felt as winter nears....