Tracking Plan B - Lester Brown's
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Posted: 09 Aug 2012 03:29 PM PDT
Keystone XL pipeline may threaten aquifer that irrigates much of the
central US
Washington Post - 8 hours ago
A Florida native who moved to Nebraska in 2007 after marrying a rancher
active in Democratic politics, she did as much as anyone to bring the
massive Keystone XL crude oil pipeline to a halt last year. James Goecke
is a counterpoint to Kleeb.
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Posted: 09 Aug 2012 03:21 PM PDT
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Posted: 09 Aug 2012 03:20 PM PDT
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Posted: 09 Aug 2012 01:53 PM PDT
ScienceOnline2012 – interview with Adrian Down
Scientific American (blog) - 3 hours ago
These days, I study methane. Specifically, I'm developing techniques to
“fingerprint” methane sources. If you've got high methane concentrations
and you want to know where that methane is coming from, I can help you.
There are a lot of sources of ...
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Posted: 09 Aug 2012 01:51 PM PDT
Study: Reservoirs May Produce 20 Times More Methane Than Normal During
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ThinkProgress - 1 hour ago
Methane is a greenhouse gas 25 times more effective than CO2 at trapping
heat in the atmosphere over 100-year period, and is a hundred times
more potent over 20 years.
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Posted: 09 Aug 2012 01:40 PM PDT
Anti MTR activists charged
The Lincoln Journal - 8 hours ago
HAMLIN - A number of activists, opposed to mountaintop removal mining,
were arrested on misdemeanor charges in Lincoln County, Saturday, July
28, 2012.
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Posted: 09 Aug 2012 01:37 PM PDT
As Coal Sinks, Renewables Soar to Insignificance, Decades too late:
Emissions Report Shows Start Of Clean ...
ThinkProgress - 6 hours ago
Some experts have been anticipating the coal to gas switch for several
years now, but these results show that it's happening faster than
expected.
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Posted: 09 Aug 2012 01:12 PM PDT
Rising Temperature Raising Food Prices
Sustainablog (blog) - 22 hours ago
By Lester R. Brown.
Over the last two months, the price of corn has been climbing. On July
19th, it exceeded $8 per bushel for the first time, taking the world
into a new food price terrain.
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Posted: 09 Aug 2012 01:05 PM PDT
UN Agency: Global Food Prices up Due to US Drought
ABC News - 21 minutes ago
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UN agency says an increase in the cost of grain and sugar helped to
drive up global food prices in July, as a widespread US drought
continues punishing corn crops.
As food prices spike, how close is the world to another crisis?Washington Post (blog)
UN food price index registers rise in prices
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Posted: 09 Aug 2012 12:06 PM PDT
Cross-sector partnership on deforestation could be game changing
The Guardian (blog) - 2 hours ago
By
most accounts, the United Nations Rio+20 summit in Brazil was a
failure. Having been there, as government leaders quibbled over where to
place commas in the negotiating text, I can say this is not entirely
true.
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Posted: 09 Aug 2012 12:02 PM PDT
Indigenous Peoples Are Being Pushed to the End of Their World
Jakarta Globe - 10 hours ago
Globally, although the indigenous peoples represent only about 5 percent
of the world's population, they occupy one-fifth of entire earth's
territory from the Arctic to the South Pacific.
International Day of World Indigenous Peoples: How We Can Solve the Our
...PolicyMic
International
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Posted: 09 Aug 2012 11:10 AM PDT
Boston Underwater: Global Warming Is Going to Gobble Up the Go-To Spots
Say ...
BostInno (blog) - 29 minutes ago
A powerful storm surge could put some of Boston's most beloved
landscapes under water if global warming isn't addressed, according to
state elected officials.
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