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CONTRIBUTOR:
. Desdemona Despair By Chris Mooney 29 October 2015 (Washington Post) – A
new scientific study says that rapidly warming waters off the New England coast
have had a severe consequence — the collapse of a cod fishery that saw too many
catches even as overall cod numbers declined due to...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . Despite receiving a
subpoena from the House of Representatives, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) continues to defy the summons to explain itself regarding
a controversial climate study it had released back in June. An aide to the House
Committee on Science, Space and Technology said the NOAA has...
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. Desdemona Despair By Andrey Kuzmin, with additional reporting by Alister
Doyle; Editing by Bruce Wallace and Kevin Liffey29 October 2015 MOSCOW (Reuters)
– Wildfires crackled across Siberia this summer, turning skies ochre and sending
up enough smoke from burning pines to blot out satellite views of the
400-mile-long Lake Baikal....
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . The Russian
president believes that "there is no global warming, that this is a fraud to
restrain the industrial development of several countries including Russia," says
Stanislav Belkovsky, a political analyst and critic of Putin. "That is why this
subject is not topical for the majority of the Russian mass...
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People power beat Big Oil again this week when Shell announced that it was
cancelling its Carmon Creek tar sands project. Shell said the decision to cancel
the project (and thus take a US$2 billion hit to its bottom line) “reflects
current uncertainties, including the lack of infrastructure to move...
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. Desdemona Despair By Jonathan Watts30 October 2015 (Rio de Janeiro) –
Brazilian rangers, firefighters and indigenous communities are battling against
a wildfire that has blazed for two months and devastated some of the last
Amazonian forest in the northern state of Maranhão, including part of the
territory of an uncontacted...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . Use of the Herbicide
Glyphosate Has Skyrocketed Since the 1990sSource: ThinkStockPhotos.comFor
thousands of years, children ate the same food their parents ate when they were
children. In the United States today, this is no longer the case. Most
dramatically, the proliferation of the use of the herbicide glyphosate, made
possible...
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. Desdemona Despair By David L. Chandler26 October 2015 (MIT News) – Within
this century, parts of the Persian Gulf region could be hit with unprecedented
events of deadly heat as a result of climate change, according to a study of
high-resolution climate models. The research reveals details of a
business-as-usual...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . False-color view of
total ozone over the Antarctic pole.A giant hole in our ozone layer, larger than
Russia and Canada combined, has appeared over Antarctica, but it's not the
result of global warming. On Thursday, the World Meteorological Organization
(WMO) blamed the record-sized hole in our ozone layer as a...
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 CONTRIBUTOR: . Capital Press
EditorialCritics say the head of the National Organic Program is keeping secret
the names of experts used to formulate policy, has failed to vigorously enforce
regulations and punish violators, and is acting at the behest of large
corporations.We’ve grown used to regulators in the Obama administration taking
arbitrary,...
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