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On Saturday, March 31st I happened to be listening to KQED when they aired a debate by the organization Intelligence Squared on the motion “Global Warming is Not a Crisis.” The "debate" set as a reference frame that global warming is not a crisis and then had climate scientists debate a popular novel writer, Michael Crichton, to argue that it was a crisis. The moderator brought up misleading evidence of past "scientific" fads like a news media hype briefly in the late 70s that the world was c...

"The slaughter of bison is not required in order to manage the threat of disease. Slaughter is not management. It is an approach from a bygone era and has no place in a time of rapid scientific and economic progress. We are capable of more ingenuity and more compassion if we are willing to try." - From the Opening Remarks of U.S. Rep. Nick J. Rahall, II, Chairman, Committee on Natural Resources, before the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Oversight Hearing on Yel...

1. The Quiet Apocalypse of Rising Tides Climate change is everywhere, and the somewhat momentous report released February 3 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirms that climate change is man-made, and unstoppable. The 21-page report, described as conservative by the IPCC itself, says man-made emissions of greenhouse gases are to blame for heat waves, floods and heavy rains, droughts and stronger storms (particularly in the Atlantic Ocean), melting ice-caps and rais...

· May 15 - Oral arguments for Terrorism Enhancement · May 22 - Cooperating Defendant Stanislas Meyerhoff's sentencing. 9 am · May 24 - Cooperating Defendant Kevin Tubbs's sentencing. 9 am · May 25 - Cooperating Defendant Chelsea Gerlach's sentencing. 9 am · May 29 - Cooperating Defendant Darren Thurston's sentencing. 9 am · May 31 - Cooperating Defendant Suzanne Savoie's sentencing. 9 am · May 31 - Cooperating Defendant Kendall Tankersley's sentencing. 1 pm · June 1 - Joyanna Zacher ...

The Indo-U.S. nuclear deal may be considered groundbreaking and historic by many in India and the United States, but this euphoria must not shroud the misery of thousands of people suffering the effects of uranium mining in India due to poor technical and management practices in existing mines....

WASHINGTON, D.C. On Tuesday, at the request of the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands, Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC) representatives will testify before Congress on the status of Yellowstone's wild bison....

In an interview on Australian ABC Television program, The 7.30 Report, James Hansen, a prominent NASA climatologist, predicted the liklihood that the earth will pass a tipping point resulting in Sea Level Rise of up to a metre every 20 years. The trigger for this is an extra degree of global warming resulting in the runaway melting of the Greenland and West Antarctic Ice sheets....

Within the past five months, since November 2006, the average driver is paying an additional $42 per month for gasoline and more than $100 per household. Families are finding it difficult to meet household expenses and are cutting back on weekend activities and vacation plans. The higher gasoline prices are driving up inflation nationally and are affecting the cost on consumer goods and services....

In West Yellowstone, there are still no buffalo outside of the Park. The few far-away bulls we were monitoring are out of sight now, with portions of the Park closed to all human activities to protect waking grizzly bears....

The Seattle based toxic trade watchdog, Basel Action Network (BAN), voices grave concern that the newly launched StEP program, which is being called a multi-stakeholder UN program (standing for "Solving the e-Waste Problem"), has very pointedly not denounced the global dumping of electronic waste on developing countries....