Environment
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Nine Months After the Quake - a Million Haitians Slowly Dying (Bill Quigley)
Oct. 11, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- "If it gets any worse," said Wilda, a homeless Haitian mother, "we're not going to survive." Mothers and grandmothers surrounding her nodded solemnly. ...
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Panel: Gov't blocked scientists on spill estimate (Dina Cappiello)
Oct. 7, 2010 -- WASHINGTON (AP) – The Obama administration blocked efforts by government scientists to tell the public just how bad the Gulf oil spill could become and committed other missteps that ...
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Himalayas Unsettled by Melting Glaciers, More Avalanches (Bhuwan Sharma)
The Tso Rolpa glacial lake in central Nepal has grown due to the faster melting of snow with global warming. (Credit:Kishor Rimal/IPS) Oct. 4, 2010 -- KATHMANDU (Inter Press Service) -- For the last ...
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Arctic Warms, Sea Ice Shrinks, Extinction Risk Grows (Environment News Service)
From foxes to whales to walruses to plankton, Arctic species are being pushed toward extinction by rapid climate change, finds a new report by two conservation groups. (photo by Flickr user Drew ...
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Integrity Failure: BP Shifts Blame for Deepwater Horizon Disaster (Lindsay Beyerstein)
An oil slick reaches shore July 4 in Gulf Shores, Ala. Millions of gallons spilled into the Gulf since the April 20 Deepwater Horizon disaster. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Sept. 9, 2010 (In ...
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Mass Extinction Threat: Earth on Verge of Huge Reset Button? (Jeremy Hsu)
Sept. 2, 2010 (LiveScience) -- Mass extinctions have served as huge reset buttons that dramatically changed the diversity of species found in oceans all over the world, according to a comprehensive ...
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Sun storm to hit with 'force of 100 million hydrogen bombs' (Peter Farquhar)
Aug. 25, 2010 (news.com.au) -- AFTER 10 years of comparative slumber, the sun is waking up -- and it's got astronomers on full alert. This week several U.S. media outlets reported that NASA was ...
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Collapse of ancient Ellesmere ice shelf stuns scientists (Margaret Munro)
This NASA image shows the section of the Ward Hunt ice shelf which recently broke off. (IMAGE/NASA) "The ice seems to be fracturing all over the Arctic once again” Aug. 26, 2010 -- (Post Media News) ...
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Errant Climate May Be Sign of Breakdown, Scientists Say (Charles J. Hanley)
Heat waves, fires, and floods fit their predictions Aug. 13, 2010 -- NEW YORK (AP) -- Floods, fires, melting ice, and feverish heat -- from smoke-choked Moscow to water-soaked Iowa and the High ...
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Greenland Ice Sheet Faces 'Tipping Point in 10 Years'; (Suzanne Goldenberg)
Scientists warn that temperature rise of between 2C and 7C would cause ice to melt, resulting in 23ft rise in sea level Aug. 11, 2010 -- WASHINGTON (Guardian) -- The entire ice mass of Greenland ...
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A critical examination of Matt Simmons’ claims on the Deepwater spill (Robert Rapier)
Matt Simmons July 29, 2010 (The Oil Drum) -- Matt Simmons, author of Twilight in the Desert, has long been one of the most famous and influential voices on the subject of peak oil. After the release ...
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