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It’s crunch time for Obama’s agenda
Christian Science Monitor - by Linda Feldmann - Jul. 2, 2009 (News Analysis)
By the end of the month, it should be clear whether President Obama’s top legislative initiatives – healthcare ...
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Asia-Pacific | North Korea 'test fires missiles'
BBC News - Jul. 2, 2009 (News Report)
North Korea has test-fired four short-range missiles, South Korea's Yonhap news agency has reported. The agency ...
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Forest Service creates Alaska experimental forest: AP Alaska
Anchorage Daily News - Jul. 2, 2009 (News Report)
The federal government has designated a portion of the Tongass National Forest as an experimental forest.
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Two Centuries On, a Cryptologist Cracks a Presidential Code
Wall Street Journal - by Rachel Emma Silverman - Jul. 2, 2009 (News Report)
The cryptic message was sent to President Jefferson in December 1801 by his friend and frequent correspondent, ...
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U.S. court cuts off appeals in Monsanto alfalfa case
Reuters - by Gina Keating - Jul. 1, 2009 (News Report)
A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday left in place an injunction barring Monsanto Co from selling its Roundup Ready ...
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From bush to bike - a bamboo revolution
BBC News - by Kieron Humphrey - Jul. 1, 2009 (News Report)
On the outskirts of Lusaka, Zambia, next year's crop of bicycles is being watered by Benjamin Banda. "We planted ...
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Your guide to the cap-and-trade estimates
PolitiFact - by Catharine Richert - Jul. 2, 2009 (News Analysis)
With Congress considering a sweeping cap-and-trade bill to limit carbon emissions and slow global warming, there ...
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Raising a healthy gamer: seven tips for parents
Ars Technica - by Ben Kuchera - Jul. 2, 2009 (Special Report)
Parenting is always a tough job, and video games are a tricky subject in today's families. Don't worry, we have you ...
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Activists Shout It from the Mountaintop | OneWorld.net (U.S.)
OneWorld - Jul. 2, 2009 (News Report)
A renowned climate scientist, an actress, a former lawmaker, and local residents in West Virginia were arrested ...
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Personal Democracy
Media is a Plural - by Rory O'Connor - Jun. 30, 2009 (Other)
With half of the members of Congress now running their own YouTube Channel, and many of the rest Twittering their ...
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Misconceptions plague debate over gas line proposals
Anchorage Daily News - Jul. 1, 2009 (Editorial)
Exxon's decision to join forces with TransCanada has spurred a new round of debate over the best way to make sure ...
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The federal climate-change bill: Deniers commit treason against the planet
Seattle Times - by Paul Krugman - Jun. 30, 2009 (Opinion)
To fully appreciate the irresponsibility and immorality of climate-change denial you need to know about the latest ...
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Replace state property tax with carbon tax for climate action
Seattle Times - by Bruce Flory, Todd Myers - Jun. 30, 2009 (Opinion)
One sign of progress comes from right next door. Voters in British Columbia recently re-elected Premier Gordon ...
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Op-Ed Columnist - Betraying the Planet
New York Times - Jun. 29, 2009 (Opinion)
In other words, we’re facing a clear and present danger to our way of life, perhaps even to civilization itself. ...
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Bring Twitter Talk To Your Site With Tweetboard
Washington Post - by Erick Schonfeld - Jun. 29, 2009 (Review)
As Twitter becomes the default conversation spot on the Web, we’re going to start to see tools which combine ...
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Why do we allow the US to act like a failed state on climate change
The Guardian - by George Monbiot - Jun. 26, 2009 (Opinion)
There are mind-boggling concessions to the biofuels industry, including a promise not to investigate its wider ...
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Yet again, Vilsack bows to ethanol gods
Grist - by Tom Philpott - Jun. 30, 2009 (Comment)
“Corn-based ethanol will continue to be part of the solution but by no means the only way to produce ethanol. ...
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Action at State Department on Tar Sands - World's Dirtiest Oil
Common Dreams, ForestEthics - Jun. 26, 2009 (Press Release)
The Canadian Tar Sands are located a day’s drive from Glacier National Park and are one of the most destructive ...
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Now Is the Time to Unleash the Power of Clean Energy
Common Dreams, Environment America - Jun. 26, 2009 (Press Release)
“While the dramatic shift we need in our energy policy and the dire scientific predictions regarding global ...
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The Downfall of the Waxman-Markey Bill: Politics-as-Usual Meets Climate Change
sonecon.com, The Point - by Robert Shapiro - Jun. 25, 2009 (Opinion)
The disappointing fact is, the bill combines the inherent problems of cap-and-trade long noted by economists, with ...
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Oysters in deep trouble: Is Pacific Ocean's chemistry killing sea life?
Seattle Times - by Craig Welch - Jun. 14, 2009 (Special Report)
as the oyster industry heads into the fifth summer of its most unnerving crisis in decades, scientists are ...
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Did China's Nuclear Tests Kill Thousands and Doom Future Generations?
Scientific American - by Zeeya Merali - Jun. 22, 2009 (News Report)
Three decades on, Tohti, now a medical doctor, is launching an investigation into the toll still being taken—and ...
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Revealed: the bid to corner world's bluefin tuna market
The Independent - by Martin Hickman - Jun. 3, 2009 (Special Report)
A corporation within the £170bn Mitsubishi empire is importing thousands of tonnes of the fish from Europe into ...
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As Iraq runs dry, a plague of snakes is unleashed
The Independent - Jun. 21, 2009 (News Report)
Swarms of snakes are attacking people and cattle in southern Iraq as the Euphrates and Tigris rivers dry up and the ...
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US Nuclear Industry Tries to Hijack Obama's Climate Change Bill
The Guardian - by Suzanne Goldenberg - Jun. 12, 2009 (News Report)
The 152-page Republican bill contains just one reference to climate change, and proposes easing controls for new ...
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Migration and climate change: A new (under) class of travellers
Economist - by Addis Ababa, Lokichoggio - Jun. 29, 2009 (Special Report)
The International Organisation for Migration thinks there will be 200m climate-change migrants by 2050, when the ...
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How to run a protest without Twitter
GlobalPost - Jun. 20, 2009 (Special Report)
we talked to past protest leaders to find out how they toppled governments and grabbed the world's attention before ...
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Industry Defends Federal Loophole for Drilling
ProPublica - by Abrahm Lustgarten - Jun. 5, 2009 (News Report)
In a packed and sometimes contentious hearing on Capitol Hill Thursday, representatives of the oil and gas industry ...
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The Daddy Brain
Greater Good - by Jeremy Adam Smith - Jun. 21, 2009 (Special Report)
Moms aren't the only ones whose bodies change after having a baby. Jeremy Adam Smith reveals the new science of ...
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The Activism Cure
Greater Good - by Meredith Maran - Jun. 21, 2009 (Special Report)
Philosopher-physician Albert Schweitzer once said, "The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who ...
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Green jobs must mean good jobs that respect labor
Seattle Times - by Rick Bender, Tom Chamberlain - Jun. 12, 2009 (Opinion)
in March 2007, SolarWorld purchased a facility in Hillsboro, Ore. The company was lured there in part by $43 ...
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Why the newspaper still beats the Amazon Kindle.
Slate - by Farhad Manjoo - Jun. 20, 2009 (Review)
After using it for a week, I can say the new Kindle is a good first attempt at melding what's great about papers ...
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We no longer fully understand the web
New Scientist - by Tim Berners-Lee, Paul Marks - Jun. 5, 2009 (Interview)
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants to put the web under the microscope to investigate how it changes our ...
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Mexico: Water Shortages Affecting Nearly 2 Million Residents
Global Voices - by Issa Villarreal - Jun. 22, 2009 (Opinion)
Nearly two million citizens have been affected by the recent reduction of water services in the Valley of Mexico. ...
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Action at State Department on Tar Sands - World's Dirtiest Oil
Common Dreams, ForestEthics - Jun. 26, 2009 (Press Release)
The Canadian Tar Sands are located a day’s drive from Glacier National Park and are one of the most destructive ...