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  • Green Fuel’s Dirty Secret
    6 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Sasha Lilley
    The town of Columbus, Nebraska, bills itself as a "City of Power and Progress." If Archer Daniels Midland gets its way, that power will be partially generated by coal, one of the dirtiest forms of energy. When burned, it emits carcinogenic pollutants and high levels of the greenhouse gases linked to global warming.
    Ironically this coal will be used to generate ethanol, a plant-based petroleum substitute that has been hyped by both environmentalists and President George (…)

  • Call on Gov. Schwarzenegger to Investigate Chemtrails
    2 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Calling for a State Level Investigation into the Aerial Spraying Campaign known as Chemtrails/Persistent Contrails. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/835318817
    Do you notice on an otherwise clear beautiful California day, that there are airplanes flying at a very high altitude emitting a trail of substance that doesn’t dissipate? They are officially known as ’Persistent Contrails’, but for independent investigators they are called Chemtrails. This mysterious phenomenon is (…)

  • EXXON VALDEZ OIL LINGERS IN ALASKA (commondreams)
    19 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Study: Exxon Valdez Oil Lingers in Alaska by Dan Joling Oil spilled by the Exxon Valdez 17 years ago extends farther into Alaska’s tidal waters than previously thought and could be causing long-term harm to wildlife, a study concludes.
    Research chemist Jeffrey Short and colleagues at the National Marine Fisheries Service in Juneau concluded that oil was found between the high- and low-tide lines where predators such as sea otters and sea ducks may encounter it while disturbing (…)

  • Controversial Experimental Weather Modification Bill in US Congress (globalresearch)
    12 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Controversial Experimental Weather Modification Bill in US Congress
    By Rosalind Peterson
    May 11, 2006
    EXPERIMENTAL WEATHER MODIFICATION BILL FAST TRACKING FOR PASSAGE IN U.S. SENATE & HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES U.S. Senate Bill 517 and U.S. House Bill 2995, a bill that would allow experimental weather modification by artificial methods and implement a national weather modification policy, does not include agriculture or public oversight, is on the “fast track” to be (…)

  • Tibet ozone hole alert (aljazeera)
    5 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Tibet ozone hole alert Thursday 04 May 2006 10:02 AM GMT
    Chinese scientists have said that a 2.5-million-square-kilometre ozone hole may be forming over the Tibetan plateau.
    While it does not yet qualify as a regular ozone hole, like those over the two poles, the area has seen a large drop in ozone density in recent years, the Xinhua news agency said on Thursday, citing China’s Scientific Report journal. The decrease in ozone over the plateau was caused by atmospheric air movements (…)

  • NEW MACCARTYSM : Green is the New Red by WILL POTTER
    5 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    How the Bush Administration is Using Terror Laws to Prosecute Nonviolent Environmental Activists
    Green is the New Red
    By WILL POTTER counterpunch
    The Red Scare was less about evidence than really great PR. Joseph McCarthy and crew flacked one word so relentlessly, so virulently, that it became a political albatross to hang around anyone’s neck. The true meaning of the word fell by the wayside: communism became a fluid brand to slap on the enemy of the hour.
    Now, Green is the new Red. (…)

  • Heart of Borneo: medical treasure trove at risk
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/forests/index.cfm?uNewsID=67180
    27 Apr 2006 Gland, Switzerland - Plants that could help treat or cure diseases such as cancer, AIDS and malaria have been found in the forests of the heart of Borneo, according to a new WWF report. But the global conservation organization says this medical treasure trove is threatened and calls for its long-term protection.
    The report - Biodiscoveries, Borneo’s Botanical Secret - reveals that scientists are (…)

  • Submarine Sonar Suspected in Mystery Death of 400 Dolphins
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines06/0429-07.htm
    Published on Saturday, April 29, 2006 by the Associated Press Submarine Sonar Suspected in Mystery Death of 400 Dolphins by Ali Sultan
    ZANZIBAR, Tanzania - Scientists worked on Saturday to try to determine why hundreds of dolphins became stranded in shallow waters and later washed up dead along the shore of a popular tourist destination on Zanzibar’s northern coast.
    Villagers and fishermen buried the remains (…)

  • Environment in crisis: ’We are past the point of no return’ (The Independent UK)
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Lovelock: The Point of No Return is Behind Us
    Environment in crisis: ’We are past the point of no return’
    Thirty years ago, the scientist James Lovelock worked out that the Earth possessed a planetary-scale control system which kept the environment fit for life. He called it Gaia, and the theory has become widely accepted. Now, he believes mankind’s abuse of the environment is making that mechanism work against us. His astonishing conclusion - that climate change is already insoluble, (…)

  • Global Warming Hits Canada’s Remotest Arctic Lands
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines06/0419-07.htm Published on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 by Reuters
    Global Warming Hits Canada’s Remotest Arctic Lands by David Ljunggren
    RESOLUTE BAY, Nunavut - Even in one of the remotest, coldest and most inhospitable parts of Canada’s High Arctic, you cannot escape the signs of global warming.
    Polar bears hang around on land longer than they used to, waiting for ice to freeze. The eternal night which blankets the region for (…)