Environment
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Record Arctic Ice Melt Threatens Global Security (Stephen Leahy)
Read more...This data visualisation from the Aqua satellite show the maximum sea ice extent for 2008-09. Credit:NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio Sept. 15, 2011 (Inter Press Service) -- All the anal ...
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Can We Stop the Next Fukushima Times 10,000? (Harvey Wasserman)
Read more...Sept. 13, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- The horrible news from Japan continues to be ignored by the western corporate media. Fukushima's radioactive fallout continues to spread throughout the archipelag ...
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Greetings From The (Former?) Stony Brook Islands -- Part I (Francis Goodwin)
Read more...Francis M. Goodwin -- World News Trust Sept. 5, 2011 -- Greetings from the (former?) Stony Brook Islands of Stockbridge, Vermont. It's been a week since Hurricane Irene swept up the East Coast of the ...
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ADVISORY: World News Trust Headquarters Closed Indefinitely By Severe Floods
Read more...Aug. 29, 2011 (World News Trust) -- The World News Trust headquarters in Stockbridge, Vt., has been closed indifinitely due to a power outages and severe flooding that has washed away numerous bridge ...
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Sun Unleashes X6.9 Class Flare (NASA)
Read more...An x-class flare began at 3:48 AM EDT on August 9, 2011 and peaked at 4:05 AM. The flare burst from sun spot region AR11263, before it rotated out of view. The image here was captured by NASA's Solar ...
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Nature Bats Last: Notes on Revolution and Resistance, Revelation and Redemption (Robert Jensen)
Read more...(An edited version of this talk was presented to the Veterans for Peace conference in Portland, OR, on August 4, 2011.) Aug. 8, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- My title is ambitious and ambiguous: revolut ...
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New Pipeline to Challenge Obama's Promises (Bill McKibben)
Read more...Obama finally has the opportunity to make good on his environmental promises, but will he? Aug. 4, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- It took some serious digging in the sock drawer, but eventually I found m ...
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Earth's Systems In Rapid Decline (Stephen Leahy)
Read more...Aug. 4, 2011 (Al-Jazeera-English) -- Protecting bits of nature here and there will not prevent humanity from losing our life support system. Even if areas dedicated to conserving plants, animals, and ...
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Record High Radiation at Crippled Japan Nuke Plant (Agence France-Presse)
Read more...Aug. 1, 2011 -- TOKYO (Agence France-Presse) -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said Monday it had monitored record high radiation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant crippled by the March ...
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Observations On The Day (Paul Craig Roberts)
Read more...June 29, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Americans are a doomed people for many reasons. One reason is that they are disunited and at one another’s throats and, thus, cannot stand up the tyranny ...
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Fukushima Spews, Los Alamos Burns, Vermont Rages and We’ve Almost Lost Nebraska (Harvey Wasserman)
Read more...June 29, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- Humankind is now threatened by the simultaneous implosion, explosion, incineration, courtroom contempt and drowning of its most lethal industry. We know only two t ...
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