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Biofuels Crops May Yield Less Than Expected

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ScienceDaily (Jan. 15, 2009) — Global yields of most biofuels crops, including corn, rapeseed and wheat, have been overestimated by 100 to 150 percent or more, suggesting many countries need to reset their expectations of agricultural biofuels to a more realistic level. Read more here>> (Photos by l.p.)

This Is Bad: We're Heading for 'Water Bankruptcy'

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Posted by Tara Lohan, AlterNet at 4:42 PM on February 2, 2009. From California to the Himalayas, things are looking bad. In case you haven't been following recent headlines around water, they go something like this: Read more here>>

Blueberries Prevent Alzheimer's Disease

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NaturalNews Insider Alert newsletter Dear NaturalNews readers, New research on blueberries is showing they contain remarkable medicine for activating the brain and preventing Alzheimer's disease. Check out the brief on this breaking news:

STUDY: GLOBAL WARMING EFFECTS TO LAST 1,000 YEARS

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(AFP photos) Published on Monday, January 26, 2009 by Agence France Presse PARIS - Global warming may create "dead zones" in the ocean that would be devoid of fish and seafood and endure for up to two millennia, according to a study published on Sunday .

TIBETANS IN THE PATH OF CLIMATE CHAOS

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It is vanishing glaciers like the ones below that are already inflicting tragedy on Tibetans and others around the world. Please read story, below. 1875 photo courtesy H. Slupetzky/University of Salzburg The Pasterze, Austria's longest glacier (both photos, above), was about 2 kilometers longer in the 19th C. but is now completely out of sight from this overlook on the Grossglockner High Road. By Christina Larson, Christian Science Monitor Less snow in the mountains means less water and less food. It also means more of the same for other Asian nations downstream. Read more here>>

"HEAT AND HOPE: TIME RUNNING OUT FOR STEEP EMISSION CUTS"

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Jan. 13-'08 by Larry Powell http://www.worldwatch.org/ A large, well-respected research organization believes the world will actually have to end carbon dioxide emissions altogether by 2050 if we want to avoid "catastrophic" climate change and a planet which is "hostile to human development and well-being." *The Worldwatch Institute makes the sombre predictions in its 2009 "State-of-the-World" report entitled, "Into a Warming World." Despite all of this, the 47 scientists who wrote the report believe there is still plenty of opportunity for "efficiency improvements" in such fields as renewable energy, farming and forestry; improvements that will "slow and manage" climate change. While disaster can still be averted, "There's not much time left." Only with massive public support, political will to shift toward renewable energy, new ways of living and "a human scale that matches the atmosphere's limit

11 MILLION LITRES A DAY: THE TAR SANDS' LEAKING LEGACY

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For the first time, this report, from Environmental Defense , uses industry information to arrive at a conservative estimate of what the overall leakage from the tar sands tailings ponds is today and also what it would likely be if proposed projects go ahead. The results are staggering....

DROUGHT AND DEFORESTATION ACCOMPLICES OF GLOBAL WARMING

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SUN, WIND & WATER BEAT BIOFUELS, NUCLEAR AND COAL FOR CLEAN ENERGY

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HUMAN DEBRIS CAUSES MASSIVE HARM TO MARINE LIFE - GREENPEACE

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The hurt we continue to inflict on the natural world has sunk to new depths, as our filth fills up the seven seas. Read more here .

Plight of the Humble Bee. Canadian regulators refuse to protect a priceless pollinator from a known toxin.

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by Larry Powell A honeybee forages on a flower. A PinP photo.   The crop chemical, clothianidin, approved almost five years ago by the Pest Management Regulatory Agency, has since been found to be "highly toxic to the honeybee, apis mellifera." Despite knowing this for at least four years, the PMRA, a division of Health Canada, has kept the product's temporary license in place. So it continues to be used.  Clothianidin is a member of the chemical family, neonicitanoids, used, among other things, to treat canola seed to ward off flea beetles. Another "family member," imadacloprid, has been used in Canada for more than 25 years.  Bees are dying from toxic chemicals and the feds won't save them. In 2004, the PMRA and its American counterpart, the Environmental Protection Agency, jointly reviewed data on clothianidin. In addition to their conclusion of high toxicity, they found that other studies, which  found the product had "no significant impact,&quo