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UK Scientists Attack Oil Firms' Role in Huge Arctic Project
http://www.commondreams.or g/headlines06/0418-02.htm ...
So why, exactly, is Tokyo so keen on whale hunting?
By David McNeill In Tokyo Published: 17 April 2006 Ask a Japanese person under 40 how much whale they consume and you're likely to get a blank look. Most would no more go out of their way to eat whale... ...
The melting of the North and South Poles is accelerating
[Below is a translation from a new 194-page Atlas recently published by *Le Monde diplomatique*, these two pages are devoted to describing what has been learned recently about the effects of global warming... ...
PLANET IN PERIL: AN ATLAS OF CURRENT THREATS TO PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
ISBN: 82-7701-038-9 Date of Publication: March 2006 Publisher: UNEP/GRID-Arendal Order on-line at: http://www.Earthprint.com For further information, contact: grid@grida.no http://www.grida.no/prod ucts.cfm?pageID=11... ...
Is It Too Late to Stop Global Warming?
Published on Monday, April 3, 2006 by the Associated Press by Seth Borenstein WASHINGTON - A man stands on a railroad track as a train rumbles closer. "Global warming?" he says. "Some say irreversible... ...
POLAR MELTDOWN NEAR: SEAS COULD RISE 3 FEET PER CENTURY
By Ker Than LiveScience March 23, 2006 http://www.livescience.c om/environment/060323_ice_ melt.html About 130,000 years ago, an ice age ended and there was a period of few centuries before the next... ...
BE WORRIED, BE VERY WORRIED
By Jeffrey Kluger With reporting by Greg Fulton / Atlanta Dan Cray / Los Angeles Rita Healy / Denver Eric Roston / Washington David Bjerklie, Andrea Dorfman / New York Andrea Gerlin / London Time Magazine... ...
Little Time to Avoid Big Thaw
Global warming appears to be pushing vast reservoirs of ice on Greenland and Antarctica toward a significant, long-term meltdown. The world may have as little as a decade to take the steps to avoid this... ...
SCIENTISTS ISSUE DRAMATIC POLAR ICE WARNING
By Deborah Zabarenko Reuters March 24, 2006 http://tinyurl.com/elwna WASHINGTON - Miami would be a memory, Bangkok a soggy shadow of its former self and the Maldive Islands would vanish if melting... ...
Melting ice could raise levels up to 20 feet by 2100
This is the main story of today's San Francisco Chronicle–front page, above the fold. One item is untrue. This is not the first time a 20-feet this century warning has been issued. I issued it eight years... ...