tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377901242010-02-04T18:22:55.484-08:00From the Progressive ReviewTPRnoreply@blogger.comBlogger724125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37790124.post-84000615807405216772010-02-03T12:14:00.001-08:002010-02-03T12:14:31.401-08:00

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Independent, UK - Humanity would need five Earths to produce the resources needed if everyone lived as profligately as Americans, according to a report.As it is, humanity each year uses resources equivalent to nearly one-and-a-half Earths to meet its needs, said the report by Global Footprint Network, an international think tank."We are demanding nature's services - using resources and creating

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ABC News - There's even less time for humanity to try to curb global warming than recently thought, according to a new in-depth scientific assessment by 26 scientists from eight countries. Sea level rise, ocean acidification and the rapid melting of massive ice sheets are among the significantly increased effects of human-induced global warming assessed in the survey, which also examines the

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Independent, UK - The world is now firmly on course for the worst-case scenario in terms of climate change, with average global temperatures rising by up to 6C (10.8F) by the end of the century, leading scientists said yesterday. Such a rise - which would be much higher nearer the poles - would have cataclysmic and irreversible consequences for the Earth, making large parts of the planet

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AFP - Braking the rise in Earth's population would be a major help in the fight against global warming, according to an unprecedented UN report that draws a link between demographic pressure and climate change."Slower population growth. . . would help build social resilience to climate change's impacts and would contribute to a reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions in the future," the UN

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Reuters - The rapid adoption by U.S. farmers of genetically engineered corn, soybeans and cotton has promoted increased use of pesticides, an epidemic of herbicide-resistant weeds and more chemical residues in foods, according to a report issued by health and environmental protection groups.The groups said research showed that herbicide use grew by 383 million pounds from 1996 to 2008, with 46

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Guardian, UK - The world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates admit, according to a whistleblower at the International Energy Agency who claims it has been deliberately underplaying a looming shortage for fear of triggering panic buying.The senior official claims the US has played an influential role in encouraging the watchdog to underplay the rate of decline from

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Life Science - Daily record high temperatures occurred twice as often as record lows over the last decade across the continental United States, new research shows. . . If temperatures were not warming, the number of record daily highs and lows being set each year would be approximately even, the researchers explained in a statement.Instead, for the period from Jan. 1, 2000, to Sept. 30, 2009, the

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Photo Alberto Cesar, GreenpeaceChange - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced that the rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon plummeted 46 percent between August 2008 to July 2009, according to a government press release. That is the lowest rate in 20 years, since the government started collecting data 1988. . . Brazil's Ministry of Environment claims that deforestation

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Pew Research Center - There has been a sharp decline over the past year in the percentage of Americans who say there is solid evidence that global temperatures are rising. And fewer also see global warming as a very serious problem – 35% say that today, down from 44% in April 2008.The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center finds that 57% think there is solid evidence that the average

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Telegraph, UK - Here's something rather rotten from the State of Denmark. Its government yesterday unveiled official research showing that two-year-old children are at risk from a bewildering array of gender-bending chemicals in such everyday items as waterproof clothes, rubber boots, bed linen, food, nappies, sunscreen lotion and moisturizing cream.The 326-page report, published by the

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Guardian, UK - A fifth of the world's known mammals, a third of its amphibians, more than a quarter of its reptiles and up to 70% of its plants are under threat of extinction according to the red list of threatened species, the latest annual survey compiled by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.Among the critically endangered species are the western lowland gorilla and the

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University of Rochester - In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia. At the time, some geologists believed the rift was the beginning of a new ocean as two parts of the African continent pulled apart, but the claim was controversial.Now, scientists from several countries have confirmed that the volcanic processes at work beneath the Ethiopian rift are nearly

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AFP - Chinese meteorologists covered Beijing in snow Sunday after seeding clouds to bring winter weather to the capital in an effort to combat a lingering drought, state media reported.The unusually early snow blanketed the capital from Sunday morning and kept falling for half the day, helped by temperatures as low as minus 2 Celsius (29 Fahrenheit) and strong winds from the north, Xinhua news

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NPR - Scientists writing in the current issue of Science magazine point out a huge error in existing biofuel laws that could actually make climate change worse. They say these rules inadvertently encourage deforestation, which in turn contributes to global warming.If you burn ethanol from corn in your car, the government doesn't count the carbon dioxide that comes out of the tailpipe as an actual

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Bill McKibben, 350 - Sometimes people say: "If only we could get the world to come together to do such and such." And it sounds so silly and trite and obviously impossible. But today I'm sitting in an office in lower Manhattan, surrounded by a bunch of 24-year-olds hunched over laptops, amid small towers of empty pizza boxes. And around us, somehow, at least for a day, the world actually is

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NY Times - 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 number of hungry people in the world rose to 1.02 billion this year, or nearly one in seven people,

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Michael Graham Richard, Tree Hugger - Yesterday I got my green bin from the city of Ottawa. They've been handing them out to residents . . The collection of organic waste is set to begin in January 2010, and since about 45% of the waste collected by the city is compostable, and since anaerobic decomposition in landfills produces large quantities of methane (a powerful greenhouse gas), it has the

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AFP - The government in the Maldives is holding its first underwater cabinet meeting on Saturday to attract international attention to the dangers of global warming, a spokeswoman said. President Mohamed Nasheed, dressed in full scuba gear, will preside over the half-hour meeting at a depth of six meters (20 feet) just north of the capital Male . . . Most of the island nation, a tourist paradise

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CNN - New data suggests that the Arctic Ocean will be "largely ice free" during summer within a decade. As the Arctic sea ice melts, polar bears face extinction.The report, complied by the UK-based Catlin Arctic Survey and the World Wildlife Fund, is the latest research into ice thickness in the Arctic.Researchers predict that within 20 years ice cover will be completely gone during the warmer

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LA Times - An oxygen-depleted "dead zone" the size of New Jersey is starving sea life off the coast of Oregon and Washington and will probably appear there each summer as a result of climate change, an Oregon State University researcher said. The huge area is one of 400 dead zones around the world, most of them caused by fertilizer and sewage dumped into the oceans in river runoff.But the dead

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Nature - Analysis of Chinese historical records stretching back for over a thousand years show that locust outbreaks are more likely to occur in warmer and drier weather, especially in the country's northern provinces, researchers say. "The results are an alarm bell for yet another serious consequence of climate change," says Ge Quansheng, deputy director of the Beijing-based Institute of

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