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Yes, Climate Change May Cause More Tsunamis. No, That's Not Alarmism

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:55:25 -0800

Treehugger - Mar. 12 (Opinion) - TreehuggerYes, Climate Change May Cause More Tsunamis. No, That's Not AlarmismTreehuggerI know headlines like that might just make most folks roll their eyes at this point -- I mean, what doesn't climate change cause these days, am I right? And I realize that people are skeptical of ...Shameless Ultra-Green OpportunismThe American (blog)all 2 news articles »

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93 Percent of Wall Street Journal's Climate Op-Eds Misrepresent Science

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Brian Merchant - Feb. 02 (News Analysis) - "97% of climate science experts and every international scientific organization endorses the conclusion that human activities are primarily responsible for modern global warming. An honest newspaper should reflect that consensus."

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Water: A Billion Gallons A Month Down the Drain

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Treehugger - By Lloyd Alter - Apr. 14 (Opinion) - Delivering safe, healthy water has been one of the main functions of government for as long as there have been governments, building aqueducts in Roman times and more recently across the Harlem River. Water is also political, as we have seen from Atlanta to Wisconsin this year. But that hasn't stopped our current governments from letting the infrastructure fall to ruin.

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Investment in Cycling Could Save £521 Million

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:20:00 -0700

Treehugger - By Matthew Sparkes - Sep. 18 (Opinion) - According to the report, each cyclist saves the NHS £28.30 every year, by not having as many heart attacks and other problems. Cycling in London is quite dangerous though, so the average cyclist probably costs the NHS some money in broken legs and other taxi-related illnesses.

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Dye Me A River

Sat, 05 May 2007 09:38:47 -0700

Treehugger - By John Laumer - May. 05 (Opinion) - ehuacan Mexico is known as the "heartland of Mexico's denim industry," a heart that sometimes launders enough jeans to bleed blue dye and bleach into rivers used to irrigate corn fields. And, no, this is not how blue corn tortillas came about. As reported in a PlanetArk story, "Dozens of industrial laundries, some of which put the finishing touches to jeans for export, discharge a cocktail of bleach, dye and detergents into Tehuacan's wide valley with almost no government controls, residents say...Water from the denim laundries runs through Tehuacan, where it mixes with municipal sewage and is discharged untreated in a foaming green torrent to a river that feeds irrigation systems in the downstream village of San Diego Chalma."

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