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What Happens To Polar Bears As Arctic Ice Shrinks?
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16.1.2010 |
NPR: All Things Considered |
| Former editor-in-chief of New Scientist magazine predicts that the killer whale will usurp the polar bear as the king of the Arctic by the year 2050. |
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Let The Electric Bill Outrage Begin: As Two-Month Cold Snap Overlaps Disappearing Utility Rate Cap
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16.1.2010 |
TreeHugger |
| Let The Electric Bill Outrage Begin: As Two-Month Cold Snap Overlaps Disappearing Utility Rate Cap |
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U.S. is flying doctors and food to Haiti in massive earthquake relief effort
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16.1.2010 |
LA Times: Top News |
| U.S. is flying doctors and food to Haiti in massive earthquake relief effort |
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New Scientific Concerns Beg for End to Mountaintop-Removal Coal Mining
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16.1.2010 |
TreeHugger |
| New Scientific Concerns Beg for End to Mountaintop-Removal Coal Mining |
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Let The Electric Bill Outrage Begin: Two-Month Cold Snap Overlapping Disappearing Rate Cap
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16.1.2010 |
TreeHugger |
| Let The Electric Bill Outrage Begin: Two-Month Cold Snap Overlapping Disappearing Rate Cap |
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How Corporate Branding has Taken Over America
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16.1.2010 |
Commondreams.org Views |
| by Naomi Klein The following is Excerpted from No Logo (10th Anniversary Edition) by Naomi Klein, reprinted by The Guardian and reproduced on CommonDreams.org with permission from the author:
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[flenvcenter :: Presidential Election]
[flenvcenter :: Wells]
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[newstrust :: Trade]
[flenvcenter :: Social Justice]
[flenvcenter :: Community]
[flenvcenter :: Presidential Election]
[flenvcenter :: Social Justice]
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Natural gas under Gulf may be too much of a good thing
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16.1.2010 |
Houston Chronicle: Business |
| If this week's gas discovery in shallow Gulf waters leads to new production it would signal new life for that region, but also could boost swollen U.S. supplies and weaken prices.
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Vail Daily skiing: Safety is key in backcountry
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16.1.2010 |
Vail Colorado: Our World |
| VAIL, Colorado - Backcountry skiing and snowboarding in Colorado's Vail Valley might have the allure of deep, untouched powder, but those who choose to enter the backcountry are crossing a line of danger that isn't always obvious.
Just because backcountry areas are easily accessible from Vail and Beaver Creek ski areas doesn't mean skiers and snowboarders should take the risk, experts say. Even the most experienced skiers and riders can find themselves in trouble on the other side of the boundary ropes.
"Any time you leave the ski area boundary or leave a trailhead and head into the backcountry, you have to be responsible for your own safety," said Spencer Logan, a scientist with the Colorado Avalanche Information Center. "One of the ... |
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State says atrazine rules are adequate
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16.1.2010 |
Minnesota Public Radio: Business |
The Minnesota Agriculture Department says no changes are needed in the state's regulation of the farm herbicide atrazine. |
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UN report: Indigenous peoples’ cultural/physical survival threatened
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16.1.2010 |
ICT: Living |
| NEW YORK – The world’s 370 indigenous peoples suffer disproportionately high rates of poverty, health problems, crime, unemployment, human rights abuses, and their cultural, and in some cases, physical survival are threatened with extinction, according to the first ever United Nations report on the issues. |
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UN report: Indigenous peoples’ cultural/physical survival threatened
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16.1.2010 |
ICT: Health |
| NEW YORK – The world’s 370 indigenous peoples suffer disproportionately high rates of poverty, health problems, crime, unemployment, human rights abuses, and their cultural, and in some cases, physical survival are threatened with extinction, according to the first ever United Nations report on the issues. |
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[flenvcenter :: History and Culture]
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[newstrust :: Education]
[flenvcenter :: Famine]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
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Laura Flanders: The F Word: Things to Remember While Helping Haiti
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15.1.2010 |
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com |
| Things to remember while helping Haiti. That's the benign-sounding headline on a Heritage Foundation paper regarding the disaster in Haiti. Released just hours after the... |
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15.1.2010 |
Boston Globe: Latest |
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US takes charge in Haiti - with troops, rescue aid
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15.1.2010 |
Boston Globe: Latest |
| US takes charge in Haiti - with troops, rescue aid |
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Amy Wilentz: Haiti will find a way to survive
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15.1.2010 |
LA Times: Opinion |
| Amy Wilentz: Haiti will find a way to survive |
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Don't count Haiti out
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15.1.2010 |
LA Times: Commentary |
| Don't count Haiti out |
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Sarah Palin Could Very Well Blow Up in Fox's Face
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15.1.2010 |
AlterNet.org: Media and Technology |
| Mix Palin's tendency to "go rogue" and burn bridges with her colleagues to her poor early performances on Fox, and the channel could have a disaster on its hands. |
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US takes charge in Haiti with troops, rescue aid
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15.1.2010 |
Yahoo: Top Stories |
| AP - President Barack Obama and the U.S. moved to take charge in earthquake-ravaged Haiti on Thursday, dispatching thousands of troops along with tons of aid to try to keep order as well as rescue the suffering in a country dysfunctional in the best of times. ... |
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In Haiti, tragedy, a way of life, is redefined
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15.1.2010 |
Seattle Times: Nation & World |
| EDITOR'S NOTE - Jonathan M. Katz is The Associated Press' correspondent in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He filed this first-person account of the moments after Tuesday's earthquake, which has redefined tragedy for a nation that knows it all too well. |
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Gates Foundation makes first Haiti relief grant
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15.1.2010 |
Seattle Times: Business & Technology |
| The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is making a $1 million grant to Catholic Relief Services (CRS) to aid its initial relief efforts, including immediate food, shelter, water, sanitation, health and other needs of people affected by Tuesday's earthquake. |
