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- The global hunger for oil is fuelling a new gold rush.
- Virtually alone among nations, the United States -- by far the worst polluter on the face of this green and smoggy planet—refuses to acknowledge the existence of a greenhouse threat -- let alone address it. The world burns, the barons steal, and America plays its public relations fiddle.
- Global warming is doubling the rate of sea level rise around the world, but attempts to stop it by cutting back on greenhouse gas emissions are likely to be futile, leading researchers will warn today.
- Our grimy great lakes: The dirty secrets of the Canadian shipping industry’s cleanup practices.
- The World Bank recognizes the countless social and environmental problems caused by dams, but won't let them get in the way of building more and more dams.
- Life is harsh on the freezing tundra of the Arctic Circle where Anna Prakhova lives. But it can be much harder when snows do not fall.
- Now scientists say it is vanishing far faster than even they expected. - For sale cheap: 270 million acres of national forest and public land. It could happen under a budget bill being debated in Congress.
- Activists have occupyied a development along Spain's Andalusian coastline claiming the construction is illegal and environmentally destructive.
- Las Vegas residents are increasingly noticing the appearance of chemical trails overhead. They appear EVERY weekend without fail, the only exception being the two weeks after September 11, 2001.
- Most Victims Are Poor, Study Says - America's lawn-care industry is fighting hard to make sure the nation's lawns are awash in synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.
- Unprecedented mass movement defines our global age. But increasingly, among the displaced is a population whose status only in recent years has gained some legitimacy: environmental refugees. It categorizes people who suffer from a wide spectrum of environmental disasters, man-made or natural. Their homes have become inhabitable, veritable wastelands.
- The world's forests are still being destroyed at an alarming rate despite a slowing down in the net rate of forest loss because of new planting and natural growth, a UN agency says.
- Disappearance of plankton causes unprecedented collapse in sea and bird life off western US coast.
- They're everywhere -- in the food we eat, in the cosmetics we use, in the houses where we live. Is there an alternative?
- Global greenhouse gas emissions will rise by 52% by 2030, unless the world takes action to reduce energy consumption, a study has warned.
- Citing scientific research which it had commissioned, it said an estimated two kilogrammes of cocaine, or 80,000 lines, spill into the river every day after it has passed through users' bodies and sewage treatment plants.
- African lakes are among the worst affected, with satellite images unveiled on Monday showing dramatic differences between the extent of some lakes and rivers today and their extent a few decades ago. Lake Chad has shrunk by almost 90 per cent... - The impact on vegetation and landscapes would transform large areas of the earth. - Forty-three years ago, Rachel Carson became the unlikely founder of the radical ecology movement. Her message is even more powerful today. - ...the United States is the number one producer of garbage on the planet; with just 5 percent of the global population we generate 30 percent of the world's trash. The average American throws away a staggering 4.5 pounds of rubbish daily -- that's 1,600 pounds each year...
- Up to five people a day are being sent to private hospitals in Auckland for diagnosis and treatment for what may be radiation-related illnesses, officials say.
- Weapons of mass destruction thrown into the sea years ago present danger now - and the Army doesn't know where they all are - Environmentalists want to know if the navy's sonar equipment can actually disrupt the navigation systems of whales and dolphins.
- Warming cliff notes! - Loss of trees in the Brazilian rain forest is much worse than had been thought, according to a new study.
- "intentional large scale manipulation of the global environment"
- The deep ocean is one of the world's last great wildernesses. But not for long. Two kilometres below the surface, scores of rare and exotic species are being wiped out at a dramatic rate.
- "1998 was the warmest ever, 2005 is looking at being second. It will be another very warm year generally, which is in line with global climate change research."
- GM crops contaminate the countryside for up to 15 years after they have been harvested, startling new government research shows.
- Almost a fifth of all ill health in poor countries and millions of deaths can be attributed to environmental factors, including climate change and pollution, according to a report from the World Bank.
- Climate change could lead to the extinction of many animals including migratory birds, says a report commissioned by the UK government.
- "There has been no explanation as to why this policy was issued. It does appear the intent of this policy is to restrict the flow of weather information to the national media," said the NOAA employee who also expressed concern over why Commerce is suddenly making blanket policy decisions for the NWS and deciding who can speak to the media.
- The erosion of polar ice is the first break in a fragile chain of life extending across the planet, from bears in the north to penguins in the far south
- They call it Project Cloverleaf. At night, giant planes with no pilots roam the sky over the U.S. Instead of a mere vapor trail, they are filling the sky with unknown chemicals designed to darken the earth.
- Super-powerful hurricanes now hitting the United States are the "smoking gun" of global warming, one of Britain's leading scientists believes.
- Experts may be significantly underestimating air pollution's role in causing early death, according to a team of American and Canadian researchers, who studied two decades' worth of data on residents of the Los Angeles metro area.
- A record loss of sea ice in the Arctic this summer has convinced scientists that the northern hemisphere may have crossed a critical threshold beyond which the climate may never recover.
- "The Bush Administration takes the same approach to the Endangered Species Act that it takes to all the other major environmental laws that protect our air, water and lands. Their approach is to appease, abuse and assault."
- Bush has reversed more environmental progress in the past eight months than Reagan did in a full eight years - The hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica has grown to near-record size this year, suggesting 20 years of pollution controls have so far had little effect, the United Nations said.
- "The best way to put it is that storms are lasting longer at higher intensity than they were 30 years ago."
- New Report Documents Damage to the Pacific Ocean from Investments in Destructive Longline Fishing
- Global warming is changing the realities of life within a hundred or more miles of those coasts. We may find that either we will have to quit building developments and start recovering coastal wetlands, or establish ongoing massive evacuation plans for entire regions. - The Bush administration advanced two phony arguments to support its industry-friendly approach: 1) that mercury isn’t really toxic; and 2) there’s no "commercially available" technology available to clean it up.
- Judge rules Interior Department violated law
- The use of uranium-enriched munitions in the theater of war in the Middle East and Afghanistan is one of the more sadistic sides of the US imperialism, on par with the barbaric and terroristic nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- The breast milk of Oregon women is contaminated with a high level of toxic flame retardants known as PBDEs, researchers say. Overall, they had levels of PBDEs 20 to 40 times higher than levels found in women from Europe and Japan
- The current warming trends in the Arctic may shove the Arctic system into a seasonally ice-free state not seen for more than one million years, according to a new report. The melting is accelerating, and a team of researchers were unable to identify any natural processes that might slow the de-icing of the Arctic.
- Pharmaceuticals, other substances from sewage plants end up in lakes, cause sexual mutations.
- Mercury threatens the health of the people of the Amazon. In Brazil, more than 2,000 tons of this heavy metal have been dumped into the environment by "garimpeiros" (artisanal gold miners) since 1980, but some researchers say that a great deal more is found in the Amazon jungles. - Computers and their accessories contain toxins such as mercury and lead, causing massive environmental damage worldwide. But not all of the major computer companies are serious about reducing waste.
- Siberia feels the heat. It's a frozen peat bog the size of France and Germany combined, contains billions of tonnes of greenhouse gas and, for the first time since the ice age, it is melting.
- More GM Contamination Found in Crops
- The operator of a Florida nuclear plant appears to have shipped radioactive waste to ordinary landfills, municipal sewage treatment plants and some unknown locations in the 1970's and early 80's, according to internal documents and government records obtained in lawsuits.
- This appears to be Monsanto’s first step toward acquiring ownership of the animal kingdom. They have aggressively pursued already ownership of various grain and vegetable crops with the same kind of manipulative patent application language.
- Commander Eileen Collins said astronauts on shuttle Discovery had seen widespread environmental destruction on Earth and warned on Thursday that greater care was needed to protect natural resources. - As amphibians continue to mysteriously disappear worldwide, a University of Pittsburgh researcher may have found more pieces of the puzzle.
- In the spring of 2002, a large chunk of the Larsen B ice shelf (LIS-B) on the Antarctic Peninsula broke off and tumbled into the Weddell Sea. A new analysis published today in the journal Nature suggests that the more than 3,200 square kilometer area that collapsed signifies an unprecedented loss in the past 10,000 years and can be attributed to accelerated climate warming in the region.
- Ten power plants in the Northeast last year produced a third of the region's carbon dioxide emissions, considered a major contributor to global warming, according to a report released Tuesday by a coalition of environmental groups.
- Scientists monitoring a glacier in Greenland have found it is moving into the sea three times faster than a decade ago. - Modified rape crosses with wild plant to create tough pesticide-resistant strain
- Asian Elephant gene pool shift
- With a record number of dead seabirds washing up on West Coast beaches from Central California to British Columbia, marine biologists are raising the alarm about rising ocean temperatures and dwindling plankton populations.
- Unborn US babies are soaking in a stew of chemicals, including mercury, petrol by-products and pesticides, according to a report released today. - Kenya's biggest chain of supermarkets has introduced biodegradable shopping bags in response to concern about the pollution caused by plastic ones.
- "EPA does not routinely assess existing chemicals, has limited information on their health and environmental risks, and has issued few regulations controlling such chemicals," the report said. The investigators concluded that the environmental agency "lacks sufficient data to ensure" that the public is protected. - Walk down most streets on Manhattan's Upper East Side on a weekday morning and you'll find yourself dodging the watery spray kicked up by dozens of hose-wielding doormen cleansing the pavement for the daily parade of designer shoes and custom running sneakers. "Sixty-three hundred people in the world die every day from lack of water," says Regina Birchem. She's president of the Women's International League of Peace and Freedom Congress...but I don't know if her building has a doorman
- Although a number of previous extinctions involved birds and marine mammals, it is the fate of many fish that worries experts. The large-scale industrialization of the fishing industry after World War II, a global boom in oceanfront development and a rise in global temperatures are all causing fish populations to plummet.
- Instead of denying climate change is happening, the US now denies that we need proper regulation to stop it
- That's twice as fast as the rate the oceans rose during the previous 50 years, ocean experts said Thursday. If the current rate continues or accelerates, as they say is likely, the world's seas will rise at least a foot by the end of this century, causing widespread flooding and erosion of islands and low-lying coastal areas.
- Ocean temperatures in the North Atlantic hit an all-time high last year, raising concerns about the effects of global warming on one of the most sensitive and productive ecosystems in the world.
- Extra precipitation expected as a result of global warming could create a lopsided world in which sea ice increases around the South Pole while the far north melts away.
- Global temperatures in the future could be much hotter than scientists have predicted if new computer models on climate change are correct.
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