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  • China Using Artificial Rain to Clear Dust
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    China Using Artificial Rain to Clear Dust Apr 18 3:17 PM US/Eastern Email this story By JOE McDONALD Associated Press Writer
    BEIJING
    Beijing will use artificial rainmaking to clear the air after a choking dust storm coated China’s capital and beyond with yellow grit, prompting a health warning to keep children indoors, state media said Tuesday.
    The huge storm blew dust far beyond China’s borders, blanketing South Korea and reaching Tokyo.
    The storm, reportedly the worst in at (…)

  • UK Scientists Attack Oil Firms’ Role in Huge Arctic Project
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 by the Guardian / UK http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines06/0418-02.htm
    UK Scientists Attack Oil Firms’ Role in Huge Arctic Project Sixty-country survey to search for fossil fuels in pristine environment
    by David Adam http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines06/0418-02.htm
    British scientists are at loggerheads with US colleagues over a controversial plan to work alongside oil companies to hunt for fossil (…)

  • Surveillance, Infiltration, and Harassment of Environmental Organizations, Part II (Truthout)
    11 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Surveillance, Infiltration, and Harassment of Environmental Organizations, Part II By Lauren Regan, Civil Liberties Defense Center t r u t h o u t | Transcript
    Wednesday 29 March 2006 Lauren Regan, Executive Director of the Civil Liberties Defense Center, spoke on the panel "Surveillance, Infiltration, and Harassment of Environmental Organizations," at the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (pielc.org), held March 2-5, 2006, in Eugene, Oregon.
    I am going to (…)

  • Surveillance, Infiltration, and Harassment of Environmental Organizations, Part I (Truthout)
    11 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/printer_031106C.shtml
    Surveillance, Infiltration, and Harassment of Environmental Organizations, Part I Hope Marston, Lane County Bill of Rights Defense Committee t r u t h o u t | Transcript
    Friday 10 March 2006 Hope Marston, of the Lane County Bill of Rights Defense Committee, spoke on the panel on "Surveillance, Infiltration, and Harassment of Environmental Organizations" at the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (…)

  • Climate Researchers Feeling Heat From White House
    9 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Juliet Eilperin
    Scientists doing climate research for the federal government say the Bush administration has made it hard for them to speak forthrightly to the public about global warming. The result, the researchers say, is a danger that Americans are not getting the full story on how the climate is changing.
    Employees and contractors working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, along with a U.S. Geological Survey scientist working at an NOAA lab, said in (…)

  • Our oceans are under attack, and approaching a point of no return. Can we survive if the seas go sil
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Fate of the Ocean Our oceans are under attack, and approaching a point of no return. Can we survive if the seas go silent?
    Julia Whitty March/April 2006 Mother Jones
    http://www.motherjones.com/cgi-bin/print_article.pl?url=http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2006/03/the_fate_of_the_ocean.html
    WE’RE IN FOR A WILD RIDE, say Oceanus’ 13-person crew, salts old and young, most of them Cape Codders with lifelong careers on the water. Consequently, many of the 12 members of (…)

  • Groups Say Tests Show Contamination Near New Orleans
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines06/0404-07.htm Published on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 by Reuters
    Groups Say Tests Show Contamination Near New Orleans
    HOUSTON - Two environmental groups said on Monday soil samples from an area east of New Orleans hit by an oil spill during Hurricane Katrina last year show high levels of diesel and arsenic contamination.
    Some 25,000 barrels of mixed crude oil spilled in St. Bernard Parish from a storage tank that floated (…)

  • Greenpeace Investigation Links Fast Food Giants to Amazon Destruction
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Greenpeace Investigation Links Fast Food Giants to Amazon Destruction Campaign launched to hold McDonald’s accountable
    CONTACT: Greenpeace Gavin Edwards, Greenpeace International forests campaign co-ordinator (m) +31 652 391429 Pat Venditti, Greenpeace UK senior forests campaigner (m) +44 797 337 5089 Matilda, Greenpeace International Communications (m) +31 653 504701 Or see http:www.greenpeace.org/forests
    LONDON - April 6 - Greenpeace today exposed the role played by McDonald’s in (…)

  • McDonald’s Is Super-Sizing Destruction of Amazonia: Greenpeace
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Friday, April 7, 2006 by Agence France Presse McDonald’s Is Super-Sizing Destruction of Amazonia: Greenpeace http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines06/0407-09.htm
    The environment group Greenpeace launched a campaign against McDonald’s, accusing the US restaurant chain of abetting the destruction of the Brazilian rainforest by buying meat raised from Amazonian soya.
    Greenpeace protestors staged colourful but peaceful demonstrations at several McDonald’s (…)

  • The Big Melt Coming Faster Than Expected - Inter Press Service
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Wednesday, April 5, 2006 by Inter Press Service The Big Melt Coming Faster Than Expected by Stephen Leahy
    BROOKLIN, Canada - Beaches, islands and even continents are shrinking as ocean levels rise ever higher due to the accelerating meltdown of the world’s glaciers and polar ice due to climate change.
    Many of the world’s major cities, including Bangkok, London, Miami and New York, could be flooded by the end of the century, according to a new analysis of current (…)