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A Global Flood of Sewage the Focus of World Water Day

Tasha Eichenseher in Nairobi, Kenya - National Geographic News - Mar. 22 '10 Two billion tons of...

New Regulations Will Put an End to Mountaintop Mining

Suzanne Goldenberg Thursday 1 April 2010 www.Guardian.co.uk Obama administration proposals will make...

EU Considers Easing Environmental Standards for Fuel

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BY MIKE DE SOUZA, CANWEST NEWS SERVICE Mar 24 '10 OTTAWA — The European Union is considering weakening... AB tarpond, courtesy of Beautiful Destruction

Greenpeace Says Climate Denialism a 20–Year Industry

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by Stacy Feldman - Mar 24th, 2010 - SolveClimate.com Current efforts to deny climate science are part of an...

Rhode Island Flooding

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THE HUFFINGTON POST - March 30 '10 Worst in a hundred years. Editor's note" Just another "natural cycle," right? l.p. Courtesy; The Huffington Post.

Pollution from Asia Circles Globe at Stratospheric Heights

ScienceDaily (Mar. 26, 2010) — The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling...

More Economical Process for Making Ethanol from Nonfood Sources

ScienceDaily (Mar. 26, 2010) — Scientists in Wisconsin...

10 Ways Mother Earth Will Bite Back

AlterNet / By Scott Thill ...if we don't stop our wanton destruction of the environment..

Up With the Greens!

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EDITOR'S NOTE: I found the comment, below, from an anonymous US Green, posted following the Alternet article, "10 Ways Mother Earth Will Bite Back..." l.p. ===== There is only one sure way to begin the fight against global warming … by having a political party that’s committed to it … that is the Green Party … All we hear out of both the Republicans and Democrats is growth, growth, growth … which means of course the growth of environmental destruction, the growth of pollution and the growth of earth’s population … Both the Democrats and Republicans are the leading promoters of our environmental destruction. The Republicans make no bones abut it, they deny global warming. The Democrats want to turn it into a Wall Street Market called ”cap and trade” to derive profits from. The only real answer is a carbon tax but since it would hurt Republican companies such as Oil and Coal and would deprive Democrats of another Wall Street Scam. Don’t be fooled by the ”green

Harper Muzzles Climate Researchers

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Climate Action Network Canada - March 15, 2010 New report details government actions that undermine... A machine breaks up ice on the Red River to prevent flooding. Climate change is bringing more severe weather events, including ice-jams & flooding. As these events increase, news coverage of the link between the two, sadly, decreases! (CBC photo.)

Lorne Gunther: Denial (and Dumb Analogies) "R Us"

DeSmogBlog.com - Richard Littlemore - 9 March 2010 Peter Sinclair - Climate Crock of the Week