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When I moved to Livermore, California in 1989, the town had changed considerably from the one I had visited only ten years previous. As a young child, I went to a large cow pasture located near the middle of town to buy freshly-made ice cream. Now, in its place, was a large shopping mall. Where I remembered grass fields with horses and cows, there was now gas stations, convenience stores, and large expensive homes. By the late 1990s, even the distant foot-hills had become covered with constru...

3-20-07 Prison Dispatch Earlier this year the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in their strongest language yet, attributed the earth’s current climate change to human activity. The report, the first of four, has lead to near daily news stories on global warming....

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British high street waste is fouling streams and ditches in China despite promises of an environmental crackdown by both governments....

Here is the Klamath River News for March 30, courtesy of Regina Chichizola, the Klamath Riverkeeper....

In today’s world the use of biofuels has led to horrific consequences for the people of the world and the environment. For example The division of the world -- between a handful of rich countries consuming most of the world's resources and the rest of tha planet, has meant that the growing of crops for fuel—mostly for export to Europe, Japan and the United States—is being done on large-scale plantations in the third world. In order to make room for these plantations ancient forests are bein...

April 11, 7:30 - 9:30 p.m., Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, 3301 Lyon Street, Tickets $10, students $5. Speakers: Congressman Jerry McNerney, Presdient Michael Peevey (Calif PUC), Dr. Inez Fung, (Prof of Atmospheric Science) and many others....

RECEIPT OF PUBLIC TESTIMONY REGARDING THE PETITION TO DELIST THE SISKIYOU MOUNTAINS SALAMANDER AS A THREATENED SPECIES will be heard at April 12, 2007...

For more than three months people in the neighborhood around Fulton and Stanyan in the Inner Richmond have been gardening a piece of land that has sat vacant for decades. Now the landlord wants the garden destroyed....

Notorious for its annual floods, Bangladesh may seem the last place in the world to worry about a drying up of the rivers that flow from the Himalayas. But the country is as much at risk from drought as it is from flooding. Already farmers who used to grow rice have turned to farming prawns because the water in their fields has turned so salty nothing will grow there....