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· Emergency relief chief calls for swift action · 12 out of 13 'flash' appeals in 2007 related to weather...

An unpublished letter to California magazine by UC Berkeley alumnus, Erica Martenson, points out that the heart of the proposed research to be done as part of the UC Berkeley-BP deal involves genetically engineering microbes to break down the cell walls of plants to produce fuel. When Japanese researchers genetically altered yeast cells and analyzed them, they found that inserting genes into yeast cells disturbed their metabolism and led to the accumulation of an unwanted toxic compound, m...

At Pacific Lumber's Chapter 11 bankruptcy hearings, parent corporation Maxxam (Houston, TX headquarters) submits plan in Corpus Christi court to sell land for development to pay off their debt to creditors and continue logging with even less restrictions on their remaining land. CA residents are excluded from any decision making process in the bankruptcy proceedings....

Please be pro-active and help us protect Hawai'i; demand the military not store, use or transport depleted uranium in the Hawaiian Islands....

Environmental groups announced a new campaign this week to demand major coal fianaciers invest in renewable energy instead. Rainforest Action Network, Step It Up, and other environmental groups are targeting Bank of America and Citibank for funding billions in the coal industry. FSRN’s Christina Aanestad looked at the each company’s funding history....

The California Senate water bond hearing scheduled for October 4 has been rescheduled for Monday, October 8, at 1 p.m., according to Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla of Restore the Delta. If you want to stop Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger from building his peripheral canal and more dams and want to save delta smelt and imperiled salmon, please attend this important hearing!...

end of event a guess The meeting will be held in the upstairs loft at the center, 118 E. Strawberry Drive....

A research team from the National Snow and Ice Data Center, part of the University of Colorado at Boulder published their report of the annual 'Arctic Ice Minimum' last week which tells the extent of the summer melting. It broke the previous record set in '05, but it did so by a huge margin. The area that melted this year is 26% more than the '05 record....

Judge Oliver Wanger will be holding a hearing in Fresno today to review the merits of a case filed by a coalition of commercial and recreational fishing groups, conservation organizations and the Winnemem Wintu Tribe. The coalition filed suit in federal court in 2005 challenging a long-term plan to strip away habitat protections from five imperiled species of salmon and steelhead to allow for increases in water exports from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, the largest and most signific...

The Center for Urban Peace presents THE FUTURE OF FOOD, an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade -- followed by a Q & A discussion facilitated by Patrick Oliver, an Enviromental Science Teacher and former organic farmer....