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Humans Force Earth into New Geologic Epoch

Robert Roy Britt
LiveScience Managing Editor
LiveScience.comSun Jan 27, 1:46 PM ET
Humans have altered Earth so much that scientists say a new epoch in the planet’s geologic history has begun.
Say goodbye to the 10,000-year-old Holocene Epoch and hello to the Anthropocene.
Among the major changes heralding this two-century-old man-made epoch:
Vastly altered sediment erosion and deposition patterns. […]

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Study: False statements by Bush preceded war

By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL, Associated Press Writer
A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.
The study concluded that the statements “were part of an orchestrated campaign that […]

video1 | January 23rd, 2008 | Continued

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7 INCREDIBLE advantages of “Water-Powered Car”

No doubts about it, it’s now possible to power your car on water as well as gas, instead of 100% gas. Apart from the many advantages that this technology have on the planet, it also has many widespread advantages to many individuals around the world, including YOU.

Below are 7 of these incredible advantages of […]

webmaster | December 27th, 2007 | Continued

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Scooter Libby to drop appeal in CIA leak case

By MATT APUZZOFormer White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby is no longer appealing his conviction in the CIA leak case, a tacit recognition that continuing his legal fight might only make things worse.Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was convicted of perjury and obstruction but President Bush commuted his […]

webmaster | December 10th, 2007 | Continued

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New Study Examines Belching Cows Searches For Solution

A Swedish university has received $590,000 in research funds to measure the greenhouse gases released when cows belch.
About 20 cows will participate in the project run by the Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala, about 40 miles north of Stockholm, officials said Monday.
Cattle release methane, a greenhouse gas believed to contribute to global warming, […]

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Ice Sheets Melting in an Area Once Thought to Be Unaffected by Global Warming

This article about ice loss in Antarctica incorrectly says that Mount Kilimanjaro is in Kenya. It is in Tanzania.
Escalating Ice Loss Found in Antarctica
Sheets Melting in an Area Once Thought to Be Unaffected by Global Warming
By Marc Kaufman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 14, 2008; A01
Climatic changes appear to be destabilizing vast ice sheets of western […]

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Heat Extracted From Pavement Now Used To Heat Buildings

Developed by Ooms Nederland Holding in collaboration with WTH and TipSpit, Road Energy Systems® extracts energy from asphalt concrete. The system exploits the heat-absorbing capacity of asphalt concrete, which is enhanced by its black color. The thermal energy produced is used to cool buildings, houses and roads in summer and heat them in winter.
How it […]

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California and 15 other states sued the Bush administration Wednesday

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The state joins 15 others in a challenge to the EPA’s position that a new federal energy bill trumps other action.
By Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
January 3, 2008
California and 15 other states sued the Bush administration Wednesday, seeking to overturn a federal decision last month rejecting the state’s bid to curb greenhouse […]

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New York Times pegs global warming as top environmental issue

The Times has thrown down the gauntlet in 2008 by identifying climate change as the top environmental issue, citing numerous examples showing just about everybody but the Bush Administration wants to take action.
Polls say voters are alarmed, governors in some two dozen states are sprinting past the White House by agreeing among themselves […]

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Solar energy ‘revolution’ brings green power closer

John Vidal, environment editor
The Guardian,
Saturday December 29 2007
The holy grail of renewable energy came a step closer yesterday as thousands of mass-produced wafer-thin solar cells printed on aluminium film rolled off a production line in California, heralding what British scientists called “a revolution” in generating electricity.
The solar panels produced by a Silicon Valley start-up company, […]

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Chinese town where old presents go to die

By Richard Spencer in Guiyu
The Chinese town of Guiyu is the graveyard of Christmas past.
It is where presents - game consoles, laptops, mobile phones - come to die.
It is also where they are reborn. In this giant scrap-yard, so dangerously polluted that its children are being clinically poisoned, the electronic objects of desire, a million […]

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What you need to know about global dimming.

By Brendan I. Koerner
As if I wasn’t already freaked out enough about the planet’s future, my sister just mentioned something called “global dimming.” I’m not too sure what this is, but it sounds ominous. Is this dimming phenomenon worth losing sleep over? Or is this just environmental fearmongering?
The Lantern’s hunch is that your sister recently […]

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