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Latest Journalists And Authors Content  | | Article Details: The world will experience a growing risk of conflicts over food, energy and water in coming years. The population rises each year by about 80 million people, with most of the increase in impoverished regions already facing environmental stress. Climate change, water scarcity and tighter oil supplies will add to the stresses. The tendency might be to look to the military for solutions. We'll need to keep in mind that engineers and doctors will be the only ones who can truly keep us safe. | |
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|  | | Article Details: The U.S. has done the least among the world's eight largest economies to address global warming, a study released Thursday found. The G-8 Climate Scorecards 2008, released Thursday ahead of next week's gathering of the Group of Eight, also found that none of the eight countries are making improvements large enough to prevent temperature increases that scientists think would cause catastrophic climate changes. | |
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| | | Article Details: It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year. The disappearance of the Arctic sea ice, making it possible to reach the Pole sailing in a boat through open water, would be one of the most dramatic – and worrying – examples of the impact of global warming on the planet. | |
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| | | Article: | | | | Published: | 6/26/2008 by Huffington Post (Stephanie S. Garlow) | | | Submitted by: | Frank K 59 days ago | | | Categories: | Food & Animals |
| Article Details: Food prices could rise even more unless the mysterious decline in honey bees is solved, farmers and businessmen told lawmakers Thursday. Bee pollination is responsible for $15 billion annually in crop value.
In 2006, beekeepers began reporting losing 30 percent to 90 percent of their hives. This phenomenon has become known as Colony Collapse Disorder. | |
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|  | | Article: | | | | Published: | 5/30/2008 by New York Times (Matthew L. Wald) | | | Submitted by: | Frank K 86 days ago | | | Categories: | Energy & Fossil Fuels |
| Article Details: Coal is abundant and cheap, assuring that it will continue to be used. But the failure to start building, testing, tweaking and perfecting carbon capture and storage means that developing the technology may come too late to make coal compatible with limiting global warming. The Electric Power Research Institute, a utility consortium, estimated that it would take as long as 15 years to go from starting a pilot plant to proving the technology will work. | |
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|  | | Article Details: Convinced the planet's oil supply is dwindling and the world's economies are heading for a crash, some people around the country are moving onto homesteads, learning to live off their land, conserving fuel and, in some cases, stocking up on guns they expect to use to defend themselves and their supplies from desperate crowds of people who didn't prepare. | |
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|  | | Article: | | | | Published: | 4/30/2008 by L.A. Times (Gary Ferguson) | | | Submitted by: | Frank K 86 days ago | | | Categories: | Habitats & Animals |
| Article Details: The gray wolf was removed from the endangered species list on March 28, 2008, an act which has since ignited a killing spree in the northern Rocky Mountains. In Wyoming alone, at least 16 wolves have been shot since they came off the federal endangered species list on March 28 -- including two within the first 24 hours, ambushed by hunters waiting near an elk wintering ground. | |
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|  | | Article: | | | | Published: | 4/24/2008 by The Nation (Mark Hertsgaard ) | | | Submitted by: | Frank K 86 days ago | | | Categories: | Energy & Fossil Fuels |
| Article Details: The arrival of $119 bbl crude and $4 gal gasoline are obvious signs that global oil production has or soon will peak. With global demand rising and supplies limited, higher, more volatile prices and shortages could provoke--to quote the title of the must-see peak oil documentary--the end of suburbia. The world's economy and, paradoxically, the fight against climate change could be in deep trouble. | |
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|  | | Article Details: In an effort to jump-start a "nuclear renaissance," the Bush Administration has pushed one package of subsidies after another. A program of federal loan guarantees amounting to $18.5 billion has sat waiting for utilities to build nukes. So why is the much-storied "nuclear renaissance" so slow to get rolling? In a nutshell, blame Warren Buffett, and the banks--they won't put up the cash. | |
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|  | | Article Details: Patrick Moore, one of the co-founders of Greenpeace, left abruptly, and, in a controversial reversal, has become an outspoken advocate of some of the environmental movement's most detested causes, chief among them nuclear energy. He states that "other than hydroelectric energy nuclear is the only technology besides fossil fuels available as a large-scale continuous power source, and I mean one you can rely on to be running 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Wind and solar energy are intermittent | |
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