"The Arctic's sea ice pack thawed to its third-lowest summer level on record, up slightly from the seasonal melt of the past two years but continuing an overall decline symptomatic of climate change, U.S. scientists said on Thursday."
"...climates including Western Europe, the American Atlantic coast, New Zealand, Chile and North Africa will be the greatest effected as the botanical calendar will move strongly out of sync with the seasons with temperature-sensitive plants flowering up to 50 days earlier than n …
"WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.
"...although cannabis could reduce bone strength in young people, it may protect against osteoporosis, a weakening of the bones, in later life."
"AS galeforce winds ripped across Victoria yesterday, Maltese-@!$%#zu cross Bi Bi was blown off Brighton Pier."
"A 35-year window into the climate of one of the longest interglacial periods of the last million years has sounded a warning that El Niño events were half as frequent then as they are today. "
"The warming of an Arctic current over the last 30 years has triggered the release of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from methane hydrate stored in the sediment beneath the seabed."
"Biogeochemists located where the most carbon dioxide emissions occur in the U.S. using a new mapping system."
The Deathers make the Birthers look sane.
'The team found that only 87 of the 166 sites (52%) had advanced while simultaneously the mean annual local temperatures had increased at 111 of the 166 sites at an average rate of 0.013˚C a year (or 1˚C in 77 years).
The same things that make Alaska's marine waters among the most productive in the world may also make them the most vulnerable to ocean acidification.
A lot of money in a short period of time to arm some right-wing christian extremists.
"Rapid change, contrary to previous opinion, really seems to be happening quite frequently in a number of locations around the world," Pergams said.
"For many, sushi is a tasty way to break free from the tyranny of bland, generic American cuisine. But wait just a minute Ms. Sashimi! Before you have another bite, realize this: When you dine on sushi, you dine with the Reverend Moon!"
"In discussions about climate change, we tend to focus on the carbon emissions of an individual over his or her lifetime," said Paul Murtaugh, an OSU professor of statistics. "Those are important issues and it's essential that they should be considered.
"For those still clinging to quaint notions of the American ideal, these have been a faith-shaking 10 years.
"Once I was talking about eating our way down marine food webs with Daniel Pauly" — director of the University of British Columbia's fisheries center — "and he said, 'One day we'll be eating jellyfish.' It was meant to be a joke," said Pikitch.
"So, does either the right or left, or liberals and moderates for that matter, have any lock on thinking and acting in moral terms? Does any one persuasion or political belief have the only answers to the moral questions? Certainly, since the resurgence of the religious right in …
"I know that pointing out the atrocities of the Catholic Church is like shooting fish in a barrel, but occasionally the church still does something so beyond the pale it's worth mentioning."
"There is no economy left to recover. The US manufacturing economy was lost to offshoring and free trade ideology. It was replaced by a mythical "New Economy."
"A San Francisco teenager has been diagnosed with a strain of swine flu that is resistant to the common antiviral drug Tamiflu - an important milestone in the pandemic's evolution."
"This Earth's been here 6,000 years — and I know I'm going on and on and I'll shut up — it's been here 6,000 years, long before anybody had environmental laws, and somehow it hasn't been done away with."
"Its praises have been sung as an energy security bill and a jobs bill. But the American Clean Energy and Security Act passed last Friday by the U.S. House of Representatives is in fact milestone greenhouse legislation."
"Home gardeners beware: This year, late blight -- a destructive infectious disease that caused the Irish potato famine in the 1840s -- is killing tomato and potato plants in gardens and on commercial farms in the eastern United States.
"Whenever the Right claims that have uncovered some kind of liberal conspiracy, do not head for the fall-out shelter, wait for the noise and mindless chatter to clear.
Almost 1-1/2 years since she shook up American politics with her acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is set to headline another landmark political event: the first-ever Tea Party Convention next month in Nashvill …
Yes, Unlike Obama, Sarah Palin Has Actual Accomplishments in Her Career Not that anyone would know that, considering the only thing about which the mass media seems concerned with regards to Sarah Palin is SNL-type reporting or National Enquirer-type reporting.
With food prices remaining high in developing countries, the United Nations estimates that the number of hungry people around the world could increase by 100 million in 2009 and pass the one billion mark.
ROME — Scientists and development experts across the globe are racing to increase food production by 50 percent over the next two decades to feed the world's growing population, yet many doubt their chances despite a broad consensus that enough land, water and expertise exist …
The bill states that if you want to contract with the US Government, you can't make your employees sign to only arbitrate disputes.
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