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  • Times Atlas revising maps to show changes in geography caused by climate change
    3 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The latest edition of the Times Atlas has been altered to reflect changes to the world’s landscapes caused by climate change.
    Atlas changes maps to show current landscape
    Monday 3rd September, 2007
    The last edition of the atlas was published in 2003.
    Environmental disasters and changing geographical features are now unfolding and cartographers have had to redraw coastlines and reclassify types of land to reflect the shift.
    For instance, Lake Chad in Africa is now 95 per cent (…)

  • China : Scientists sound alarm as black soil erodes in NE
    29 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    China Scientists sound alarm as black soil erodes in NE
    Xinhua
    2007-08-27 16:48
    BEIJING - Chinese scientists are warning that the country’s northeast breadbasket regions are in danger of losing their fertility because of soil erosion and degeneration.
    "The northeast areas are the granary of the country. Soil erosion and degeneration will jeopardize the nation’s grain security," said Zhang Xudong, a soil expert with the Shenyang-based Institute of Applied Ecology under the Chinese (…)

  • Two Legs Good, Four Legs Equal
    25 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Miller
    “The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and benificence of God manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and everything of cruelty to animals is a violation of moral duty.” Thomas Paine from The Age of Reason
    Despite the trappings of a civilized culture and the incredibly persistent myth of our moral exceptionalism, we in the United States are collectively a group of (…)

  • The Camp for Climate Action 2007
    19 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By climatecamp.org.uk
    We hope that the camp will be many things to many people, from exploring what the problems are, and the changes and challenges we face, to gain the skills we will need as we prepare for a future that burns less energy. We’ll also be joining forces with Heathrow residents fighting the third runway, linking a critical local battle to the need for systemic change. And finally we’ll be taking direct action to turn things round, and create lasting communities of (…)

  • Europe hotter than thought in last century: study
    4 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    August 03, 2007 By Michael Kahn
    LONDON (Reuters) - Western Europe has heated up more than previously thought over the past century, according to a new study that adds to evidence pointing to a future of hotter summers and longer-lasting heat waves.
    The study, published on Friday in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, showed that the actual mean temperature since 1880 had risen 1.6 Celsius degrees, not the 1.3 degrees as previously thought, said Paul Della-Marta, a (…)

  • More devastating floods hit China
    3 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    More devastating floods hit China
    By Dragan Stankovic 3 August 2007
    Parts of China, especially along the eastern Huai River, have had some of the heaviest rainfalls in 50 years. Continuous rain since mid-June has resulted in widespread flooding, affecting over 119 million people. Anhui, Sichuan and Hubei are the worst-hit provinces.
    At least 3.6 million people have been evacuated, over one million houses have been damaged and another 452,000 destroyed. It is estimated that at least (…)

  • "TERRA" PAINTING to help save Planet from Climate Criminal Bush-ite War on Terra & Climate Genocide
    28 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Words having failed, Gideon Polya has painted a HUGE painting called "Terra" - a portrait of our Planet, the Earth - in order to help save our Planet from the Climate Criminal, Bush-ite, "Bush Man" War on Terra, Climate Genocide and Terracide (for EXPANDABLE IMAGE SEE: ).
    TERRA – our Planet, the Earth - is under severe threat from Climate Criminals threatening the Developing World – and especially INDIA, Pakistan and Bangladesh - with Climate Genocide. The Biosphere is being (…)

  • Buy Feed Corn: They’re about to stop making it… (globalresearch.ca)
    27 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Buy Feed Corn: They’re about to stop making it…
    By F. William Engdahl
    Global Research, July 25, 2007
    That bowl of Kellogg’s Cornflakes on the breakfast table, or the portion of pasta or corn tortillas, cheese or meat on the table is going to rise in price over the coming months as sure as the sun rises in the East. Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the new world food price shock, conveniently timed to accompany our current world oil price shock.
    Curiously it’s ominously similar in many (…)

  • The sun brings it to the day: Long ago overdue!
    15 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The sun brings it to the day: Long ago overdue!
    This is a bablefish translation from german into english, sorry the quality is not supererb... but worth a read...
    Energy tax on coal, nest egg Berlin, who knows still? With the one the main energy source in the country should, with which others are supported the city included in the GDR. Which actually happened with the money, extracts itself from my knowledge. Now the government in Berlin plans something something similar. The FAZ were (…)

  • Need A Cooker? Use Your Cell Phone By Sue Mueller
    9 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Need A Cooker? Use Your Cell Phone
    By Sue Mueller
    6-28-6 Many organizations including the cell phone industry often downplay the risk of cell phone radiation to the brain. Results from short-term studies were used to convince consumers that use of a cell phone is not associated with brain tumors or cancer, which only develop decades after exposure. To be fair, no one knows exactly how much harm a cell phone can do to a person. Howe Recently, new media has reported a study showing the (…)