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This image provided by the Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, Ohio, taken July 25, 2008, shows a growing giant crack and an 11-square-mile chunk of ice hemorrhaging off a prominent glacier in northern Greenland. The crack, at center, right, is seven miles long and about half a mile wide. It is about half the width […]
Bush Seeks to Limit Species Law
Plan to Help Speed
Some Development
Draws Activists’ Ire
By STEPHEN POWER
WALL STREET JOURNAL
August 12, 2008; Page A3
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is proposing to reduce the environmental reviews federal agencies must undertake as part of the Endangered Species Act.
The proposal could speed up commercial development, but environmentalists said the changes could threaten […]
APNewsBreak: Companies get OK to annoy polar bears
By DINA CAPPIELLO, Associated Press Writer June 15, 2008
WASHINGTON - Less than a month after declaring polar bears a threatened species because of global warming, the Bush administration is giving oil companies permission to annoy and potentially harm them in the pursuit of oil and natural gas.
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and their method will save oil by substituting
a trip to the sink for a drive to the doctor.
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AP water probe prompts Senate hearings
By MARTHA MENDOZA, AP National Writer
March 10, 2008
Two veteran U.S. senators said Monday they plan to hold hearings in response to an Associated Press investigation into the presence of trace amounts of […]
after a weekend of History, Discovery and National Geographic channels,
enjoy this latest glimpse of doom.
Real Death Star Could Strike Earth
Charles Q. Choi
Special to SPACE.com
SPACE.com
March 10, 2008
A beautiful pinwheel in space might one day blast Earth with death rays, scientists now report.
Unlike the moon-sized Death Star from Star Wars, which has to get close to […]
Weather Channel Founder Blasts Network; Claims It Is ‘Telling Us What to Think’-
TWC founder and global warming skeptic advocates suing Al Gore to expose ‘the fraud of global warming.’
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By Jeff Poor
Business & Media Institute
3/3/2008 6:11:04 PM
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The Weather Channel has lost its way, according to John Coleman, who founded the channel in 1982.
Coleman told an audience […]
March 3, 2008, 2:08 pm
House Fires With a Message in the Northwest
New York Times
By John Holusha
House fires.Firefighters poured water onto a burning house in a suburb north of Seattle where four multimillion-dollar homes burned on Monday. Three were destroyed and a fourth was damaged. (Elaine Thompson/Associated Press)
For people who are anti-sprawl activists — or […]
At the core of snowflakes, bacteria
“Bacteria are by far the most active ice nuclei in nature,” said Brent C. Christner, an assistant professor of biological sciences at Louisiana State University.
Moisture must cling to something in order to condense into precipitation, but scientists were surprised to learn how frequently that something is bacteria.
From the Associated Press
March […]
Max Cady: I’m Virgil and I’m guidin’ you through the gates of Hell. We are now in the Ninth Circle, the Circle of Traitors. Traitors to country! Traitors to fellow man! Traitors to GOD! You, sir, are charged with betrayin’ the principles of all three! Quote for me the American Bar Association’s Rules of […]
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Concept Dodge ZEO
No engine, just a motor and big lithium-ion batteries, thus ZEO for Zero Emissions Operation.
By Shaun Bailey and Photos by Marc Urbano provided by: Road Track
No engine, just a motor and big lithium-ion batteries, thus ZEO for Zero Emissions Operation. This plug-in electric car is purported to go the distance for the sporty […]