Swedish flat-pack furniture seller Ikea will stop offering plastic or paper bags at any of its US stores from this month. Each year, Americans also throw away some 100 billion polyethylene plastic bags, and less than one per cent of them are recycled.
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]]> when trees attacked by caterpillars sound an alarm that other trees in the vicinity detect and heed, some sort of communication system seems required. The evidence is found in trees that react to caterpillar attack or leaf damage by making their leaves
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]]> Climate change threatens Australia's A$2.1 billion (US$1.6 billion) commercial fishing and aquaculture industry, but may create new wild fisheries as tropical marine species move south as sea temperatures rise.
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]]> Island Timberlands starts to log giant trees in
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]]> Hansen et al.“If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted,” the paper states, “CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm [parts per million] to at most 350 ppm”
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]]> This Tuesday afternoon, European parliamentarians will gather to finalise the climate & energy plan for Europe. But the plan is being undermined by industry lobbyists demanding "permits to pollute", putting emissions targets out of reach. Please act!
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]]> The International Union for the Conservation of Nature, based in Switzerland, has just reported that the earth faces the total extinction of one in every four mammals, and that the population is rapidly declining in one out of every two species.
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]]> As the world's oceans become more acidic, the underwater sounds that whales and other marine mammals depend on for survival may turn into a confusing racket, a new study says.
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]]> For a long time -- the first 15 years that we knew about global warming and did nothing -- there were no pictures. That was one of the reasons for inaction.


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]]> Ed Rollins: Sen. Joe Biden was thought to be a brilliant pick by Sen. Barack Obama; Spurning Hillary Clinton opened door for John McCain to pick Palin; Palin's energized GOP like no one since Reagan; the race is even - let's here more about the issues!
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]]> Iranian president at U.N.: "A few bullying powers" creating world's problems; on "Larry King Live": I have no preference between McCain, Obama; Attacking Iran would be "worst thing the U.S. government can do"; Hostility w/US "not from OUR end..."
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]]> 90-year-old Ohio woman, facing eviction from the home she has lived in for 38 years, shot and wounded herself this week, becoming a grim symbol of the U.S. home mortgage crisis. Deputies tried 30x's before Polk tried shooting herself.
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]]> The Zulu are the largest South African ethnic group of an estimated 10-11 million people who live mainly in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Their language, isiZulu, is a Bantu language; more specifically, part of the Nguni subgroup...
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]]> Supporting what many of us who are not musically talented have often felt, new research reveals that trained musicians really do think differently than the rest of us.
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]]> This annual recognition program honors companies and organizations who value the 50+ workforce. These companies know that one way to stay competitive is to make their jobs more attractive to qualified and skilled workers, regardless of age.



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]]> Christian Broadcasting Network co-founder Pat Robertson, in a new update to his Web site, states that, "we have between 75 and 120 days before the Middle East starts spinning out of control."
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]]> Elementary School officials have placed Adriel in in-school suspension for coming to school with his hair tied in two braids worn outside his shirt. Adriel is escorted away from his classmates and into another room where he sits with his ISS teacher
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]]> Why is this child up so late every time there is a camera op? Why isn't this baby sleeping in a crib or bassinet somewhere with a sleep sheep or some other sound apparatus lulling him into night-night?
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]]> ...thinks the election has basically been lost over the last couple of weeks, that Republicans elsewhere in House and Senate races are also dropping, that this is looking to be a very very unfavorable election for them.
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]]> Sarah Palin stared criticism straight in the face Thursday, telling opponent Joe Biden and moderator Gwen Ifill that she would answer questions and address issues on her own terms during the vice presidential debate.


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]]> Joe Biden won the night. The word comes from former members of the Bush administration and even John McCain's former press secretary.
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]]> 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. While final numbers are still coming in
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]]> Scientists are using everything from a yellow submarine to weather balloons and special airplanes to solve a climate conundrum: why is Peru getting colder while the rest of the world heats up?
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]]> No one really knows how bad it will get, but as theStern Report concluded in 2006 doing nothing about it now is going to massively increase the costs of mitigation further down the line.
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]]> Of course, if debates were won on smarts alone, John Kerry would be our president. This debate wasn't won on facts, but on nonverbal communication. Palin was colloquial & charming & she took control. Even if you disagreed, she was credible, convincing !
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]]> After Bush, Cheney & Treasury undersecretary Levey visits, UAE officials've reduced n° of business licenses to Iranians. Aimed at crippling Iranian banks & companies connected to regime, policy punishes individual businessmen often at odds with regime..
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]]> Of 5 prominent Afghani women interviewed 3 yrs ago by The Independent, 3 are dead & 4th has had to flee. Religious fundamentalists waging ruthless campaign to eliminate women in high-profile jobs. Countless others've been maimed/murdered in villages where
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]]> If this massive deception were to be busted,it would: 1. remove the reason that many wars are fought today 2. revitalize the world economy, especially in rural area 3. instantly increase the wealth and health of everyperson on earth
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]]> By Hiyam Noir and Islam Kalloub

GAZA - In Gaza Strip the residents are entering a third month without enough local currency,the Israeli Shekel.This situation caused the Hamas leaders to call for a committee of experts to study this problem,....
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]]> India has agreed to open its civilian nuclear facilities to international inspection under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, though its eight military nuclear plants would not be subject to scrutiny.
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]]> Albinos in Burundi have been taking refuge after three of them were killed by gangs apparently seeking to sell body parts in neighbouring Tanzania. The attacks follow the killing of 26 Tanzanian albinos in less than a year.
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]]> MORE than the bottom 150 million Americans combined. 400 rich Americans have got more stashed away than half the entire country! Their combined net worth is $1.6 trillion! Should We the People bail them out?
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]]> National Geographic Workers recently began installing donated solar panels on the papal auditorium's roof, part of Vatican City's efforts to reduce its carbon footprint.
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]]> The EU could save an extra £20bn per year on health spending by setting tougher targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report. The savings could be made if the
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]]> From the National Wildlife Action Fund,this is an easy to use site,wherin US voters (and interested others) can find out,who is supporting what,re eco/animal issues..and who isn't.The more knowledge,the better.Site address is www.candidanswers.org .
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]]> California's Global Warming Solutions Act is a landmark attempt to cap greenhouse gas emissions across all sectors of the state's economy. Signed into law in September 2006, the California Air
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]]> The UK government has been urged to fund the next stage of a major European programme to monitor the effects of global climate change from space. The trade body UKspace made the call ahead of
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]]> Geothermal energy uses heat that naturally occurs beneath the Earth's surface and is often touted as a greenhouse-friendly source of electricity. The heat used is partly leftover from the formation of
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]]> The Senate has included the critical clean energy tax incentives--including an 8 year extension of the 30% investment tax credit, with removal of residential caps--in the bailout package (aka the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008).
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]]> The first time The Last Whale is seen outside captivity.

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