Environment
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New Pipeline to Challenge Obama's Promises (Bill McKibben)
Obama finally has the opportunity to make good on his environmental promises, but will he? Aug. 4, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- It took some serious digging in the sock drawer, but eventually I found ...
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Earth's Systems In Rapid Decline (Stephen Leahy)
Aug. 4, 2011 (Al-Jazeera-English) -- Protecting bits of nature here and there will not prevent humanity from losing our life support system. Even if areas dedicated to conserving plants, animals, ...
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Record High Radiation at Crippled Japan Nuke Plant (Agence France-Presse)
Aug. 1, 2011 -- TOKYO (Agence France-Presse) -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said Monday it had monitored record high radiation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant crippled by the March ...
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Observations On The Day (Paul Craig Roberts)
June 29, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Americans are a doomed people for many reasons. One reason is that they are disunited and at one another’s throats and, thus, cannot stand up the ...
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Fukushima Spews, Los Alamos Burns, Vermont Rages and We’ve Almost Lost Nebraska (Harvey Wasserman)
June 29, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- Humankind is now threatened by the simultaneous implosion, explosion, incineration, courtroom contempt and drowning of its most lethal industry. We know only two ...
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Climate of Denial: Can Science and the Truth Withstand the Merchants of Poison? (Al Gore)
WCW's Bill Goldberg, a former NFL linebacker, puts the hurt on an opponent. June 22, 2011 (Rolling Stone) -- The first time I remember hearing the question "is it real?" was when I went as a young ...
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Deus ex Machina: Will economic collapse save us from climate catastrophe? (Dan Allen)
June 17, 2011 (Energy Bulletin) -- “I don’t think the American public has gripped in its gut what could happen.... We’re looking at a scenario where there’s no more agriculture in California.” ...
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Summer Solstice Starts with Solar Storm (Tariq Malik)
This image taken by the sun-watching SOHO observatory. CREDIT: SOHO/NASA/ESA June 21, 2011 (SPACE.com) -- The sun unleashed a powerful solar flare and eruption Tuesday (June 21) just in time for ...
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US Nuke Regulators Weaken Safety Rules (Jeff Donn)
June 20, 2011 -- LACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) -- Federal regulators have been working closely with the nuclear power industry to keep the nation's aging reactors operating within safety standards by ...
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Oceans in Distress Foreshadow Mass Extinction (Marlowe Hood)
Pollution and global warming are pushing the world's oceans to the brink of a mass extinction of marine life unseen for tens of millions of years, a consortium of scientists warn. June 20, 2011 -- ...
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Confessions of a Nuclear Power Safety Expert (John Perlin)
June 14, 2011 (Miller-McCune) -- When Italy decided in the mid-’70s to add nuclear power to its power portfolio, young mechanical and nuclear engineer Cesare Silvi was among those attracted to the ...
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