Costs of Oil Reach Far Beyond What We Pay at the Pump

08/12/10 - by: Mark Engler - Truthout

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Storms Unfold as Climate Scientists Have Predicted

8/ 13/10 Boston Globe

Heat waves, fires, and floods fit their predictions

Please also read; "Is Climate Change a Four-Letter Word?"

National Farmers Union Warns New Trade Agreement with EU Could Crush Canadian Farmers

New "FTA" threatens famers' right to save seed, NFU warns. (PDF)

Grain stored on
open ground.
l.p. photo

US Court Rescinds USDA Approval of GE Sugar Beets

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Heather
The True Food Network

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Cherry tomatoes.
(Organic!) l.p. photo

Tar Sands Toxins Growing Rapidly

Globe & Mail - Au 10-2010

Volume of arsenic, lead increased 26 per cent in last four years, Environment Canada says.

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Beautiful Destruction

Russia's Agony a "Wake-Up Call" to the World

By Stephen Leahy - Inter Press Service

VIENNA, Aug 11, 2010 (IPS)

Food prices soar in the face of Russia's record heat wave.

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CommonDreams.org

Greenland Ice Sheet Faces 'Tipping Point in 10 Years'

• Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent

• guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 10 August 2010

Scientists warn that temperature rise of between 2C and 7C would cause ice to melt, resulting in 23ft rise in sea level!

A view of Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq),

the most dynamic glacier in Greenland. Photo courtesy of
Science Poles