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  • Arctic Ice Melting Too Fast to Measure: Russian Researchers Find the Hard Way

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <div class='node-body'><p>Ice melting at a dangerous pace <a href="http://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/russia-evacuates-drifting-arctic-research-station-145226993.html" target="_blank">has forced</a> a Russian research team in the Arctic to pack up shop early&mdash;and leave in a hurry.</p>

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  • WikiLeaks Leaks Transcript of "Anti-WikiLeaks Documentary"

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <div class='node-body'><p><a href="http://wikileaks.org">WikiLeaks</a> leaked an <a href="http://wikileaks.org/IMG/html/gibney-transcript.html">annotated transcript</a> of the documentary &quot;We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks,&quot; on Thursday, the eve of its opening, in an effort to &quot;reveal errors and sleight of hand by the director Alex Gibney,&quot; the group <a href="http://wiki

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  • Groups Slam Environmental Defense Fund for Fracking "Greenwash"

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <div class='node-body'><p>Environmental groups and activists slammed the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) this week for partnering with a coalition of Big Energy companies and pro-fracking groups, saying there is &quot;nothing sustainable about shale oil or shale gas.&quot;</p>

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  • Radioactive Cesium Recorded at 10 Spots in Pacific Ocean

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <div class='node-body'><p>Radioactive cesium from the Fukushima plant was found at <a href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/23/national/cesium-levels-in-water-plankton-baffle-scientists/#.UZ-FGOtyRyg">10 points</a> in the Pacific Ocean, including a location as far as 1300 miles from the plant, less than a year after Fukushima nuclear disaster began, scientists revealed on Tuesday.</p>

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  • Pakistan Not Soothed by Obama's "Reformed" Drone Program

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <div class='node-body'><p>Pakistan officials criticized President Obama&#39;s speech on Thursday for not announcing an immediate moratorium on all drone strikes in the country, insisting that any drone attack on Pakistan&#39;s soil is illegal and constitutes an assault on Pakistan&#39;s sovereignty.</p>

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  • Over a Million Signatures in Support for Sen. Warren's Student Loan Bill

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <div class='node-body'><p>Senator Elizabeth Warren&#39;s (D-Mass.) call to lower student loan interest rates to the same &quot;discounted rates&quot; given to big banks has received an &quot;outpouring of support&quot; as organizations and institutions of higher education are lining up to endorse the measure.</p>

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  • Shelter from the Tornado

    Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <img src="http://www.resilience.org/rendition.small/uploads/article_custom/1369407287-8cea564df6ad0d918/2011-10-17 14.57.33.jpg">
    <p>I live in Tornado Alley, in Oklahoma City. The suburb located fifteen miles south of our home, Moore, averages a tornado every 2.5 years since 1991.

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  • (en) Ireland, WSM Report back from Dublin meeting on Croke Park - your opinions?

    Syndicated from A-Infos (English) on Fri, 2013-05-24

    On the 8th of May the WSM held a meeting in Dublin on the Croke Park No Vote. A 3rd
    'deal' has since been announced and we will be arguing for a No vote on that deal but we
    want to invite our readers to look at the notes below and to post comments on what they
    think is the way to defeat the attempts by the union leaders and government to impose
    these cuts in one way or the other.

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  • Microgrids: A Utility’s Best Friend or Worst Enemy?

    Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <img src="http://www.resilience.org/rendition.small/uploads/article_custom/1369407284-7e24fc04f11b162e0/shutterstock_solar+turbine.jpg">
    <p>A recent data roundup by renewable energy industry analyst Paul Gipe shows that variable renewables are meeting much larger percentages of grid power than previously thought possible in some European countries.</p>

  • Scraps and the City

    Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <img src="http://www.resilience.org/rendition.small/uploads/article_custom/1369404737-e2f1338dad83d6b02/compostnyc.jpg">
    <p>Food and other organic material (by which I mean yard waste and prunings) make up a whopping 25 percent of New York&rsquo;s residential waste stream: that&rsquo;s a huge amount to potentially divert from landfills and incinerators.

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  • Democracy Now! 2013-05-24 Friday

    Syndicated from Democracy Now! on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <h1>Democracy Now! 2013-05-24 Friday</h1><ul><li>Headlines for May 24, 2013</li><li>Medea Benjamin v.

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  • Collapse: Does Washington Bridge Expose the Crumbling of a Nation?

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <div class='node-body'><p><span class="image-full" style="width: 540px"><img alt="" border="0" src="/sites/commondreams.org/files/imce-images/2021046167.jpg" style="width: 540px; height: 360px;" title="(Photo: Harley Soltes / Special to The Seattle Times)" /><span class="caption">(Photo: Harley Soltes / Special to The Seattle Times)</span></span>As the nation continues to follow the slash and bur

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  • Climate: action, impact, and geoengineering - May 24

    Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <img src="http://www.resilience.org/rendition.small/uploads/article_custom/1369393101-072ffecd5bbca95e2/C02_TCP_social_media_image_97.jpg">
    <p>&bull;China agrees to impose carbon targets by 2016 &bull;Warming to hit half of plants, a third of animals &bull;Geoengineering: Can We Save the Planet by Messing with Nature?

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  • 'Not Enough': Rights Groups Respond to Obama's Foreign Policy Speech

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <div class='node-body'><p>Better, but not nearly good enough.</p>
    <p>That&#39;s the message many were sending after President Obama&#39;s speech at the <span id="articleText">National Defense Universityin Washington, DC on Thursday.</span></p>

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  • Friends of Palestine Presents Dr. El Farra from Gaza

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Fri, 2013-05-24

    <p>Israel's Operation Cast Lead was described by a UN fact finding mission as “a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorise a civilian population.” The 2008–09 assault claimed the lives of 1400 Palestinians and thrust the crisis in Gaza into the centre of the debate about the Israel/Palestine conflict.</p>

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