www.mercurynews.com
The weather-related disasters of this spring provide a preview of what awaits our children and grandchildren if we fail to reduce the heat-trapping gases warming the planet.
5.29.2011
KIDS, YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO STOP US - Only 1% of country's coral reefs remains pristine -- WWF | ABS-CBN News | Latest Philippine Headlin www.abs-cbnnews.com
www.abs-cbnnews.com
MANILA, Philippines - The public and private sector should work together to finally stop the rape and plunder of the country's marine resources, said the World Wide Fund for Nature.
GOD BLESS THEM - Greenpeace activists climb Greenland oil rig www.msnbc.msn.com
www.msnbc.msn.com
Three Greenpeace activists on Sunday climbed up an oil rig off Greenland's coast in an attempt to stop a Scottish oil company from starting deepwater drilling in the arctic waters, the environmental group said.
5.28.2011
Every President and Congress Are Complicit in Israel's 'War Crimes' - Salem-News.Com www.salem-news.com
www.salem-news.com
Under International Law and America's War Crimes Act, all U.S. Presidents and the 535 members of the U.S. Congress are "complicitors" in Israel's long history of genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.And as
2 LAWLESS TERRORISTS - Netanyahu asked Canada's Harper to thwart G8 support for 1967 borders www.haaretz.com
www.haaretz.com
G8 statement would have supported Obama's policy that Israeli-Palestinian talks should be based on 1967 lines with land swaps.
Down with coal! The grassroots anti-coal movement goes global www.grist.org
www.grist.org
A worldwide anti-coal movement is coming together. Here are a dozen places around the world where people are uniting to halt coal projects.
Cancer Now #1 Cause of Death in China, Coal Largely to Blame www.treehugger.com
www.treehugger.com
Image: Haldini via Flickr/CC BY-SA China is beginning to see the costs of its rapid march towards industrialization -- the heavy industry, coal-fired power plants, and numerous factories have so saturated the air with pollution that cancer is officially
"If you don't find their 'message' in their Life, don't listen to their lips." SL
"If you don't find their 'message' in their Life, don't listen to their lips." SL
'Never listen to anyone whose message is not courageously, honestly, sincerely evident as their way of Life. Listen carefully to those where it is." SL
'Never listen to anyone whose
message is not courageously, honestly, sincerely evident
as their way of Life. Listen carefully to those where it is." SL
message is not courageously, honestly, sincerely evident
as their way of Life. Listen carefully to those where it is." SL
Giant Wind Turbine Blades Tested in Boston www.reuters.com
www.reuters.com
by Caleb DenisonThe race is on to build a bigger, stronger blade for wind turbines. Bigger blades can harness more wind power, thus generating more electricity. However, as it is often said, the bigger
It's time the U.S. dropped support of Netanyahu | The Des Moines Register | DesMoinesRegister.com www.desmoinesregister.com
www.desmoinesregister.com
President Barack Obama's tentative and halting attempt to forge a peace between Palestine and Israel is failing ('Obama Jolt Unlikely to Spark Peace Talks,' May 21).Early in his presidency, Obama boldly asserted Israel's settlement construction must stop, backing off later as Israel ignored his call
5.27.2011
AFP: Israeli figures urge Europe to back 'Palestine' at UN www.google.com
www.google.com
JERUSALEM — A group of notable Israeli figures, among them former senior officials, are calling on Europe to recognise a Palestinian state at the United Nations in September in a letter published on Friday.
Spitzer: Netanyahu picked the wrong fight inthearena.blogs.cnn.com
inthearena.blogs.cnn.com
Editor's Note: In The Arena's Eliot Spitzer is a weekly contributor to Slate.com. CLICK HERE to read his essay, "Netanyahu Blew It: The Israeli prime minister picks a stupid, unnecessary, and wrong fight with President Obama.
Olmert urges PM to make concessions, not speeches www.jpost.com
www.jpost.com
Former PM says in opinion piece that Netanyahu is an impressive speaker who knows how to speak to Americans in way that touches their heart.
West Bank land won't give Israel security: Jordan www.msnbc.msn.com
www.msnbc.msn.com
Israel will not gain security by holding on to territory beyond what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called its "indefensible" 1967 West Bank border, Jordan's foreign minister said.
Zakaria: History will pass Netanyahu by globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com
globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com
Here's a transcript of my conversation with Eliot Spitzer Thursday about Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech to Congress: Eliot Spitzer: You wrote an article in today's Washington Post and to say it is critical of Prime Minister Netanyahu is perhaps an understatement.
West Texas sees worst drought since Dust Bowl « Climate Progress climateprogress.org
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"The Web's most influential climate-change blogger" — Time Magazine A Project of Center for American Progress Action Fund
Low U.S. corn supplies www.reuters.com
www.reuters.com
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A bidding war is heating up among users of corn in the United States as livestock feeders and ethanol makers scramble to lock in supplies before extremely low stocks run dry by this
U.S. Electric Car Revolution to Go Forward, With or Without Congress www.reuters.com
www.reuters.com
New federal legislation encouraging mass adoption of electric vehicles will only help 'to catalyze the change that is coming,' says Hertz executive By Elizabeth McGowan, SolveClimate News WASHINGTON—Jack
Secreting bacteria eliminate cost barriers for renewable biofuel production | R&D Mag www.rdmag.com
www.rdmag.com
A Biodesign Institute at Arizona State Univ. research team has developed a process that removes a key obstacle to producing low-cost, renewable biofuels from bacteria. The team has reprogrammed photosynthetic microbes to secrete high-energy fats, making byproduct recovery and conversion to biofuels
GOP DARLING Chris Christie: Global warming is 'real.' - Darren Samuelsohn www.politico.com
www.politico.com
But he says cap and trade programs are ineffective.
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