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E-Waste Dumping around the World

Will Kirkland — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:21:50 +0000

An absolutely scandalous report from 60 Minutes about illegal e-waste dumping in China. We have posted stuff about technological dumping before but nothing quite this immediate and damning. Watch CBS Videos Online The Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition is one place to turn to for more information, and action. The NRDC, which has a spokesperson in the 60 [...]

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Unprecedented Warming

Will Kirkland — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:15:30 +0000

While the planet has experienced numerous changes in climate over the past 65 million years, the most significant climate change of the last 5,000 years has been in recent decades. That change is global warming. A Cornell study reports that as a result of this warming, which has caused Arctic freshwater ice to melt and flow [...]

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Sea Ice at Lowest Volume Ever

Will Kirkland — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 04:25:48 +0000

“Sea ice at the top of the planet has apparently reached the lowest volume ever recorded, say scientists, with conditions declining toward a point where the Arctic Ocean may soon be completely ice-free in summertime. arctic ice While final numbers are still coming in, experts at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., believe [...]

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CO2 Output Up, Reabsorption Down

Will Kirkland — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:39:57 +0000

“The world pumped up its pollution of the chief man-made global warming gas last year, setting a course that could push beyond leading scientists’ projected worst-case scenario, international researchers said Thursday. The new numbers, called “scary” by some, were a surprise because scientists thought an economic downturn would slow energy use. Instead, carbon dioxide output jumped [...]

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Floods, landslides kill 50 in Vietnam, Thailand

Will Kirkland — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:31:11 +0000

Wild, unprecedented weather continues around the globe, not only in the U.S. “Flash floods and landslides have killed 50 people in Vietnam and Thailand, swept away thousands of homes and inundated farmland, official reports said on Sunday. In Vietnam, the death toll from typhoon Hagupit, which struck the Philippines and China earlier in the week, has jumped [...]

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Remembrance September 11, 2001

Will Kirkland — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:50:15 +0000

By Will Kirkland It’s hard to focus on the moment if that’s what anniversaries are for, the moment of unraveled time so enormous it cannot be named mere moment. Remembrance — of what? Of the airplanes striking? Of the black smoke rising? Of the bodies falling? Of our own brief living with that dark body falling? Of the men rushing into the flames or the terrified rushing [...]

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For Wind Powered Cars

Will Kirkland — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:16:35 +0000

Says Lester Brown: “Let’s Use Wind to Power Cars Legendary Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens is half right. We do need to harness this country’s wind resources for a homegrown source of electricity, as he has been urging this summer in expensive television ads. And we do need to reduce the $700 billion we may soon be [...]

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I Am Wrestling With Myself

Will Kirkland — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:58:30 +0000

By Will Kirkland, 2008 I am wrestling with myself The old continuous struggle. First one side pinned to the floor, the other nearly triumphant. Where is the referee! Finish the count! Then an escape, a fast arm strikes! I am facing myself once again, both sides on their knees, hands extended, looking for a grab and a hold. Now up on their feet. [...]

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LHC Fired Up And Ready

Will Kirkland — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:08:10 +0000

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will smash up its its first proton beams this weekend in a test, arousing the fears of conspiracy lovers everywhere. If you’ll recall, the LHC is that super-mega physics experiment in Switzerland’s CERN Lab that some believe might destroy the world by producing black holes. Above, you can see a [...]

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Warmest Decade

Will Kirkland — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:52:09 +0000

Attention! Ms. Palin! Attention! The decade ending in 2006 was the warmest such period in the Northern Hemisphere for at least the last 1,300 years and possibly longer, says a new study written by a University of Arizona professor and six other researchers. Warmest Decade And to underline the report: A huge 19 square mile (55 square [...]

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