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06
Jul
2009
Oxfam to G-8: Climate change will spread hunger  

3 hours ago

Chronic hunger may be "the defining human tragedy of this century," as climate change causes growing seasons to shift, crops to fail, and storms and droughts to ravage fields, an advocacy group said. Oxfam International released a report Monday as leaders of the Group of Eight wealthiest nations pre ...

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05
Jul
2009
Spanish winemakers look to higher ground  

19 hours ago

Climate change, which could transform the Iberian peninsula into a semi-desert, is forcing winemakers in Spain to consider moving their vines to higher ground to escape the blistering heat. Spain, which has more hectares (acres) of vineyard than any other country in the world, "is in the frontline o ...

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Germany to start testing underground CO2 storage  

1 day ago by Administrator

June 30, 2008 The project will store up to 60,000 tons of carbon dioxide at a depth of more than 600 meters over the next two years. The German Research Centre for Geosciences announced that it plans to begin pumping carbon dioxide today into underground storage in Ketzin, Germany. The national rese ...

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04
Jul
2009
Don’t Ban Bottled Water  

1 day ago by Michael Z

Bottled water is the unnecessary “commodification” of a sacred gift. So stated a major Canadian church denomination when it advised its members to stop purchasing bottled water. And they are far from alone in this position. A couple months ago the Federation of Canadian Municipalities passed a motio ...

Think Again - michaelzwaagstra.com

Headed Toward a Breakdown in Our Food System  

1 day ago by nimdax

At some abstract level Obama sees that he’s not going to get his health care costs under control unless we change the way Americans eat. Because the crisis of rising costs in the American health care system can be translated very simply as the catastrophe of the American diet, which represents proba ...

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Happy 4th everyone!  

1 day ago by pds_lit

It has been a bear migration, first one and then another one through the yard yesterday, all heading up to Green Turtle Pond. Maybe they have their own 4th of July gathering. At the moment we have people walking and sitting in our drive. The bus has broke down and is blocking our exit. My Dearest ma ...

Random Access - pds-lit.livejournal.com · 27 references

We May Be Setting Ourselves Up for a Catastrophic Natural Event  

1 day ago

Too much CO2 in the air and not enough oxygen in the oceans may release a toxic dose of hydrogen sulfide -- an unheralded executioner. What is hydrogen sulfide? It smells like farts and rotten eggs. You can find it in swamps, sewers, landfills, volcanic and natural gases, and pretty much everywhere ...

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Coal plant 'will hit African poor'  

2 days ago

Creating a new coal plant in Kent could lead to 100,000 more people in the developing world losing their water supply during dry seasons, it has been claimed. Anti-poverty campaigners at the World Development Movement (WDM) also said the controversial plan could be responsible for up to 60,000 more ...

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03
Jul
2009
Group: World failing to halt biodiversity decline  

2 days ago

Governments are failing to stem a rapid decline in biodiversity that is now threatening extinction for almost half the world's coral reef species, a third of amphibians and a quarter of mammals, a leading environmental group warned Thursday. "Life on Earth is under serious threat," the International ...

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Finding Nature in Neglected Places  

2 days ago by Margaret Oomen

I was invited to do a little interview about "favorite places" by Minna of the European Etsy Team. Searching my heart and mind about my favorite places got me thinking that the place that I live, although beautiful in very many ways is far from idyllic. I don't want to create a false impression that ...

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