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World's Sixth Mass Extinction May be Underway -- Study

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Richard Ingham & Laurent Banguet AFP News 3 Mar Mankind may have unleashed the sixth known mass extinction   in Earth's history, according to a paper released on Wednesday by the science journal Nature. Full story here.

Texas Activists Ready to Fight Over $7bn Canadian Oil Pipeline in the Home of Black Gold

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•Suzanne Goldenberg• guardian.co.uk 2 Mar'11 US landowners along the proposed route – from Alberta to the Gulf coast – accuse oil firm TransCanada of bullying. Full story here.      Pipeline about to be installed in Manitoba, presumably to link to Alberta Tar Sands . Photo Credit: Loozrboy  

Shoppers Wary of GM Foods Find They're Everywhere

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Feb 25'11 - By MARY CLARE JALONICK - Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- You may not want to eat genetically engineered foods. Chances are, you are eating them anyway. Full story here. PUBLISHER'S COMMENT: This may be a US story. Unfortunately, Canada is no better! l.p.

Arctic Plankton Blooms Arriving Earlier. Fish May Be Imperiled

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Michael Ricciardi - Planetsave - Mar 3 '11 Over the past decade, the Arctic’s annual “bloom” of phytoplankton has been arriving earlier each year. Full story here.      wyrdscience.wordpress.com

Climate Change Makes Major Snowstorms More Likely - Union of Concerned Scientists

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Heavy Snowpack, “Spring Creep” Raise Threat Of Record Floods   WASHINGTON (March 1, 2011) – Global warming is “loading the dice” to increase the frequency of record-setting snowstorms like those that have pounded the United States and Europe the past two winters. Full report here. Credit: Reuters

Cougar Declared Extinct in Eastern US

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McClatchy News - Mar 2'11 The eastern cougar has been declared extinct, according to a report issued Wednesday by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Read Story here.

The Good Green Blimp

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by Staff, Utne Reader - Mar'11   Air cargo is about to go steampunk. Read more here.   Illustration: Science Applications  International Corp. PUBLISHER'S COMMENT: Might this be considered for transporting goods to northern Manitoba communities, now that climate change is rendering surface transport on ice roads unreliable? l.p.