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The Warehouse: Project 4.1

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

hallowinc.com - Oct. 27 (Dramatization) - Hallow Inc. presents The Warehouse: Project 4.1 This will be the first fully indoor haunted attraction in the Washington Metropolitan Area. The attraction is based on Project 4.1, which was the designation for a medical study conducted by the U.S. Government of residents on the Marshall Islands exposed to radioactive fallout from the March 1, 1954 Castle Bravo Accident. This attraction will be a realistic bloody, bio-hazardous warehouse filled with attacking zombies, decaying bodies, vicious military men and much more.

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Happy Savages: What We Did to the Marshall Islanders

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Common Dreams - By Robert Koehler - Feb. 16 (Review) - Robert C. Koehler "Thirty seconds to zero . . . six, five, four, three, two, one." "Castle Bravo" -- Bikini Atoll, March 1, 1954 Suddenly a big orange blossom fills the screen, accompanied by ukuleles and lovely — I mean Strangelovian — Polynesian music. The blossom is actually Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb blast, the largest U.S. test ever, detonated over Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954. read ...

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All Coral Reefs May Be Gone By 2050

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Joanna Zelman - Feb. 25 (News Report) - A recent study has found that all of the world's coral reefs could be gone by 2050. If lost, 500 million people's livelihoods worldwide would be threatened. The World Resources Institute report, "Reefs at Risk Revisited," suggests that by 2030, over 90 percent of coral reefs will be threatened.

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Author and Activist Derrick Jensen: "The Dominant Culture is Killing the Planet...It's Very Important for Us to Start to Build a Culture of Resistance"

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Derrick Jensen, Amy Goodman - Nov. 15 (Interview) - we can argue about whether, you know, there will be a few bacteria left or whatever, but when 90 percent of the large fish in the oceans are gone, when there’s six to ten times as much plastic as phytoplankton in parts of the ocean, when there’s dioxin in every mother’s breast milk, when background rates—or rates of extinction are a thousand to ten thousand times background rates, you know, it’s sort of just playing with numbers to talk about whether it’s killing the planet or simply mortally wounding it. And I think it’s very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we’re doing isn’t working, clearly.

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Gulf oil spill: BP engineer's idea to help prevent future blowout met with enthusiasm

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Rong-Gong Lin II - Aug. 27 (News Report) - A BP drilling engineer told federal investigators Friday that he thinks it would be helpful if the oil company had a real-time operations center that rig officials could call for help, an idea that the lead Coast Guard investigator considered...

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North Korea seizes South Korean fishing boat

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Aug. 08 (News Report) - North Korean authorities have seized a South Korean fishing boat in waters off the divided peninsula's eastern coast.

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Renowned Marine Biologist Carl Safina on the BP Oil Spill's Ecological Impact on the Gulf Coast and Worldwide

Thu, 27 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Juan Gonzalez, Amy Goodman - May. 27 (News Report) - As we continue our discussion on the BP oil spill, we turn to its long-term ecological impact. Carl Safina, the founding president of Blue Ocean Institute, warns the ecological fallout from the spill may be felt across much of the world.

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Living at the 'Tip of the Spear'

Sat, 08 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By Koohan Paik - May. 08 (Investigative Report) - I witnessed the rage and hurt, exploding suddenly--and so unexpectedly--from the Chamorro people and other island residents, who have had no say in the planning of cataclysmic changes that will turn their homeland into an overcrowded waste dump for the creation of the hemisphere's pre-eminent military fortress. My friends told me it's all part of what's called the Guam Buildup.

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Govt rejects formal human rights charter

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Sydney Morning Herald - Apr. 21 (News) - The federal government will not enshrine human rights in a formal charter, rejecting the advice of its own consultation group. Instead Attorney-General Robert McClelland has unveiled a human rights framework during a speech to the National Press Club

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Tonga lashing sentence for teenagers sparks anger

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Feb. 18 (News) - Law officials and rights groups have condemned a judge for sentencing two teenage boys in Tonga to six lashes and 13 years in jail.

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Science & Environment | Key coral reefs 'could disappear'

Sun, 17 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - By Lucy Williamson - May. 17 (News Report) - The international conservation group WWF warns that 40% of reefs in the Coral Triangle have already been lost. The area is shared between Indonesia and five other South East Asian nations and is thought to contain 75% of the world's coral species. It is likened to the Amazon rainforest in terms of its biodiversity. Temperature change The WWF report paints a bleak picture. If the world's richest coral reef is destroyed, the fish that people rely on for food could be gone. By the end of the century, 100 million people across South East Asia could be on the march, looking for something to eat. Communities might be breaking down and economies destroyed.

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Drowning in plastic: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is twice the size of France

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - Apr. 24 (Special Report) - There are now 46,000 pieces of plastic per square kilometre of the world's oceans, killing a million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals each year. Worse still, there seems to be nothing we can do to clean it up. So how do we turn the tide?

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Sea Levels Are Rising: It's Time to Decide Which Coastal Cities Are Worth Saving

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Scott Thill - Apr. 17 (Opinion) - first and foremost, says Cooley, is dealing with the reality of what is coming. "We first need to ensure that all new developments integrate future sea-level rise into their designs. This should be done immediately," she said. "Communities must then conduct local analysis to determine what is at risk and what they want to protect. All stakeholders must be involved in this process.

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Island states seek tougher U.N. climate deal

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - By Alister Doyle, Gabriela Baczynska - Dec. 04 (News Report) - A group of 43 small island states called on Wednesday for tougher goals for fighting global warming than those being considered at U.N. climate talks, saying that rising seas could wipe them off the map. "We are not prepared to sign a suicide agreement that causes small island states to disappear," Selwin Hart of Barbados

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France finally agrees to pay damages to nuclear test victims

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Angelique Chrisafis in Paris - Nov. 27 (News Report) - Yesterday the French defence minister finally broke the taboo, saying a law would be introduced in January to compensate those suffering illnesses among the 150,000 army and civilians who worked on the tests in Algeria and French-owned Polynesian atolls.

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Coral Reefs Face Extinction

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Bryan Walsh - Jul. 11 (Special Report) - we could make the entire ocean into a marine park and still lose the coral, if we can't stop climate change. As temperatures rise in the ocean, bleaching events will become more and more common. According to a study published in Science late last year, if CO2 levels continue rising unabated, by 2100 coral could be utterly extinct. "If we can't contain the CO2 problem and enact strong coral reef conservation measures, we will lose them," says Carpenter. The depressing fate of the coral could be a reminder that climate change has the power to undo all the work of wildlife conservation over the past century -- if we let it.

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Corals join frogs and toads as world's most endangered

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New Scientist - By Catherine Brahic - Jul. 10 (Special Report) - Within one generation, diving on coral reefs could be a very rare holiday opportunity. The first comprehensive review of tropical coral species reveals that over one-quarter reef-building coral species already face extinction. This means corals join frogs and toads as the most threatened group of animal species on the planet.

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Catch-22: Feds cut climate research to save fuel

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Brian Skoloff - Jun. 25 (News Report) - They haven't rechristened a ship the Irony, but federal researchers are canceling and cutting back on voyages aimed at studying climate change and ocean ecosystems so they can save money on boat fuel.

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New Zealand seeks to curb livestock's gas emissions

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Paul Watson - Jun. 08 (News Report) - It may be a small country on the edge of the world, but New Zealand has big ambitions in the fight against climate change. Last year, Prime Minister Helen Clark set a national goal of becoming the world's first carbon-neutral country. Livestock farmers, long among the country's major export earners, are worried. They say the cost of fighting greenhouse gases could drive many of them into bankruptcy, and they feel they're being singled out because New Zealand has relatively few big industrial polluters.

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Rising seas threaten U.S. coasts, reports say

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Cornelia Dean - Mar. 12 (News Report) - Sea level rise and other changes fueled by global warming threaten roads, rail lines, ports, airports and other important infrastructure, according to new government reports, and policymakers and planners should be acting now to avoid or mitigate their effects. While increased heat and "intense precipitation events" threaten these structures, the greatest and most immediate potential impact is coastal flooding, according to one of the reports, by an expert panel convened by the National Research Council, the research arm of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Scientists fear 'tipping point' in Pacific Ocean

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Post Intelligencer - By ROBERT McCLURE - Feb. 15 (News Report) - Where scientists previously found a sea bottom abounding with life, two years ago they discovered the rotting carcasses of crabs, starfish and sea worms, swooshing from side to side in the current. Most fish had fled -- and those that didn't or couldn't joined the deathfest on the sea floor. Extraordinarily low oxygen levels were to blame -- swept up from the deep ocean into normally productive waters just off the Pacific Northwest coast by uncharacteristically strong winds.

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While the King Sleeps

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:26:12 -0700

National Geographic - By Matthew Teague - Oct. 30 (Special Report) - after years of royal goofs, Pohiva's calls for political reform have slowly taken hold, culminating in open unrest in 2005. It started as a strike by the country's civil employees, who wanted pay increases. But the protest grew into a full-on demand for democracy. Rioters overturned cars, marched the streets, firebombed a royal residence, and--unthinkably, in Tongan culture--threatened bloodshed.

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Hour is Late to Save Disappearing Pacific Isles

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:23:01 -0700

Pacific Islands Report - By Emanuel Mori, President Of The Federated States Of Micronesia - Sep. 25 (Speech) - Mr. Chairman, I respectfully suggest that we are all obliged to be responsible stewards of this creation called Earth, and all that is on it or in it... Let us all pray that this and future generations will be remembered for making a historic turn, from pollution to protection and respect for God's blessed environment.

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Dangerous allergies soaring among pre-schoolers

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:04:37 -0700

The Australian - By Tamara McLean - Jun. 17 (News Report) - THE number of pre-schoolers with potentially life-threatening food allergies has soared five-fold in the past decade but experts are at a loss to explain it.

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NewsTrust - Oceania - Most Recent Stories

The Warehouse: Project 4.1

Happy Savages: What We Did to the Marshall Islanders

More questions than answers about Japan nuclear crisis

All Coral Reefs May Be Gone By 2050

Author and Activist Derrick Jensen: "The Dominant Culture is Killing the Planet...It's Very Important for Us to Start to Build a Culture of Resistance"

Gulf oil spill: BP engineer's idea to help prevent future blowout met with enthusiasm

North Korea seizes South Korean fishing boat

Renowned Marine Biologist Carl Safina on the BP Oil Spill's Ecological Impact on the Gulf Coast and Worldwide

Living at the 'Tip of the Spear'

Govt rejects formal human rights charter

Tonga lashing sentence for teenagers sparks anger

Science & Environment | Key coral reefs 'could disappear'

Drowning in plastic: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is twice the size of France

Sea Levels Are Rising: It's Time to Decide Which Coastal Cities Are Worth Saving

Island states seek tougher U.N. climate deal

France finally agrees to pay damages to nuclear test victims

Coral Reefs Face Extinction

Corals join frogs and toads as world's most endangered

Catch-22: Feds cut climate research to save fuel

New Zealand seeks to curb livestock's gas emissions

Rising seas threaten U.S. coasts, reports say

Scientists fear 'tipping point' in Pacific Ocean

While the King Sleeps

Hour is Late to Save Disappearing Pacific Isles

Dangerous allergies soaring among pre-schoolers