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Yellowstone says it may need to import grizzlies to improve genetics

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

billingsgazette.com - By Brett French - Jan. 05 (News Report) - Yellowstone National Park has asked its fundraising partners to come up with $1 million a year for six years to expand its lake trout eradication effort at Yellowstone Lake, and by 2022 the park may need to import grizzly bears from other regions to increase the animals’ genetic diversity Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/yellowstone-says-it-may-need-to-import-grizzlies-to-improve/article_cab0939e-363e-56db-8a66-2dfeaa60ff77.html#ixzz1ic4jJBtC

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How Climate Change Has Driven Evolution

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:40:00 -0800

Time - Dec. 27 - This painting by artist Carl Buell depcits a scene from the late Eocene of North America. A new study shows how climate change drove species diversity in the past. We are the products of our environment — and that goes for egrets and elephants as much as

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Rapid Melting of Arctic Sea Ice Possibly Explained

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

rcinet.ca - Jun. 28 (News Report) - Arctic researchers have discovered a clue as to why sea ice in the North is melting so much faster than anyone thought it would. Scientists have long puzzled over why Arctic sea ice is retreating at up to three times the rate that climate models say it should.

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Crops outlook gloomy

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - Jun. 20 (News) - Interest in long-range weather forecasts has always been high. But it is likely to intensify as weather conditions continue to threaten crops in many parts of the world including China, North America and Europe. Whilst crops in the southeast of China [pr

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Tree rings record changing snowpack, research finds

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Billings Gazette - By Brett French - Jun. 18 (News Report) - Greg Pederson sees the recent publication of his research on snowpack declines in the West as a prime opportunity to reiterate the difference between climate and weather in this record-setting wet spring. Pederson, an ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Bozeman, was the lead author of a paper published last week in Science magazine detailing the decline in snowpack observed by examining tree rings from the watersheds of the Columbia, Missouri and Colorado river basins dating back more than 800 years. His findings: Not only has snowpack declined compared to past climate fluctuations, but there's also been a "decoupling" of precipitation in the Colorado River basin and that of the Northern Rockies.

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Why is America the 'no-vacation nation'?

Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - May. 23 (Investigative Report) - Thinking of getting away? You probably have much less vacation than workers in other parts of the world. Employers in the United States are not obligated to offer any paid vacationVacation is mandated by law in many other parts of the worldPoll: Only 57%

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Southwest Airlines grounds jets over mid-air hole scare

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

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What Makes Somalis So Different?

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Dec. 22 () - You’d expect their children would be — on the whole — relieved to live in a stable Western country where even the president is black. But the Somalis who settled in Minneapolis and other selected corners of the U.S. were war refugees, with little money and not many job skills. A recent U.S. census study said Somali immigrants, statistically, were among the “youngest and poorest” newcomers to the U.S., with 82 percent of the community in Minneapolis living below the poverty line.

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To all our veterans past and present, "Thank You" (tribute video)

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

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USB Warfare: The Real Electronic Nightmare

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Sep. 22 (Special Report) - But there are other ways to wage electronic war, and they tend to be more terrifying precisely because they’re tougher to fight.

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Hollywood must win back its audience

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Jeremy Kay - Sep. 07 - Alternative media and innovative multi-platform storytelling are set to challenge a complacent film industry And so the four-day Labor Day holiday is over and summer comes to an end in Hollywoodland. As the shadows stretch across the manicured lawns of the studio grounds, there will be plenty to think about. The blockbuster season that started in May with the enjoyable hit Iron Man 2 will most likely creep past summer 2009 for a new record. But even if the predictions of Hollywood.com and similar box office analysts are correct and the combined revenues reach $4.4bn (£2.9bn) or thereabouts – beating summer 2009 by around 2.4% – the victory, for that is what it is to the numerically selective advocates of theatrical distribution, will be a ...

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Liberals Gone Wild

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Sep. 01 (Editorial) - “Liberal,” in Europe, means almost the reverse of what it means in North America. In Europe, it refers to laissez-faire economic policy. And because most large parties of the European left and right are committed to maintaining large, bureaucratic welfare states, liberal parties across the continent tend to be fairly small.

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Could This Be A Crime?

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

climatestorytellers.org - By Subhankar Banerjee - Aug. 26 (Special Report) - Last month the U.S. Senate finally put an end to the climate bill. Since then several opinion pieces have been published, including articles in Yale Environment 360, Grist, TomDispatch, The Nation, and The Hill. Some of these point out why the U.S. climate movement failed, while others call for a new movement. Global warming is a crisis: for all lands, for all oceans, for all rivers, for all forests, for all humans, for all birds, for all mammals, for all little creatures that we don’t see... for all life. We need stories and actions from every part of our earth. So far, global warming communications have primarily focused on scientific information. I strongly believe that to engage the public, we need all fields of the humanities. It is to this end that I founded ClimateStoryTellers. And there is much action: globally, 350.org and Climate Justice Movement; nationally, organizations such as Center for Biological Diversity; and state-based initiatives such as New Energy Economy in New Mexico. These groups give us hope that a bold – not weak – climate movement will continue to move forward with renewed energy. Our task is to make the collective global voice louder and louder until ignoring such loud cacophony will not be an option by our governments. Global warming is not something we can solve with good behavior and healthy lifestyles. It will require major government action to control pollution–and–polluters and to start a low–carbon–society.

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Mississippi River pours as much dispersant into the Gulf of Mexico as BP

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The New Orleans Times-Picayune - By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune - Aug. 11 (News Report) - Every day during the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, contractors sprayed an average 140,000 pounds of Corexit dispersant onto oil slicks on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico and into the oil being released a mile below.

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North Korea warns of nuclear 'sacred war'

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jul. 24 (News Report) - North Korea says it will use its "nuclear deterrent" in response to joint US-South Korean military exercises this weekend. Pyongyang was ready to launch a "retaliatory sacred war" at any time, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.

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Racist Latino Group Harasses Tea Party: “You’re Too White. Go Back to Europe.”

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Gateway Pundit - By Jim Hoft - Jul. 19 (Opinion) - A racist latino group harassed tea party patriots this week in Anaheim, California. The racists told the tea party patriots to– “Go back to Europe!” Don’t expect the state-run media to touch this story.

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Indo-American relations to crumble or advance?

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

United Press International - By Abhirup Bhunia - Jul. 16 (News) - The present relationship between India and the United States and a future buildup of diplomatic ties, could be decisive in shaping events on the global stage, experts say.

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Fur, Fortune, and Empire

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:05:06 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By David Holahan - Jul. 15 (Review) - Anyone who has ever observed a fur trapper separating a pelt from a recently killed animal knows it is a gruesome, painstaking procedure. Yet this very act, repeated countless millions of times, was a surprisingly vital component in the early history

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'Angels and Demons' journey: Traveling to see the Large Hadron Collider

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

minnpost.com - By Shawn Lawrence Otto - Jul. 14 (Opinion) - In Italy they like to eat late. Most people don’t even head out to the restaurants until about 9. And in Torino there are many of them, mostly spilling out onto the sidewalks. In the old town center, an area of winding streets and tall brick and stone buildings, it’s sometimes hard to tell what is restaurant and what is street - tables are placed out onto the pavement and cars wind between them. They seem to all merge into an outdoor party full of a pleasing mix of wood smoke from the grills, fresh and delicious seafood, Fiat exhaust and wine. Which explains why this morning came especially early. We had to be at the old Fiat plant, now a huge shopping, hotel, and conference complex, at 6:45 a.m. to catch a bus to CERN — the European Organization for Nuclear Research. The Fiat plant is about a two mile walk from the hotel. It was still that sort of liquid cool before what you could just tell was going to be a hot summer morning.

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Bank Tax, We Hardly Knew Ye

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - Jul. 14 (Opinion) - Michael Scott Moore was a 2006-2007 Fulbright fellow for journalism in Germany, and his first novel, Too Much of Nothing, was published by Ca... Why euro-bashers could turn against the dollar, and how they might be stopped. How did such an

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'Climate dice' now dangerously loaded: leading scientist

Fri, 14 May 2010 23:00:00 -0700

The Independent - May. 14 - Evidence for global warming has mounted but public awareness of the threat has shrunk, due to a cold northern winter and finger-pointing at the UN's climate experts, a top scientist warned Wednesday. James Hansen, a leading NASA scientist whose

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UK watchdog to probe Goldman Sachs

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - By Robert Peston - Apr. 21 (News) - Advertisement The Financial Services Authority has announced an investigation into the activities of the American investment bank Goldman Sachs, after fraud charges were brought last week in the United States.

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Scientists find it difficult to predict volcano behavior

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Joel Achenbach - Apr. 21 (News Report) - After eruption, scientists having difficult time predicting what’s next

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Exxon’s Oozing Texas Oil Pits Haunt Residents as XTO Deal Nears

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Bloomberg - By Joe Carroll - Apr. 20 (Special Report) - Bo Vavrusa was heaping dirt into the path of a wildfire on a Texas ranch in October 2007 when his tractor rammed an Exxon Mobil Corp. natural-gas pipe hidden in a thicket. Flames engulfed the tractor, burning his face, arms and hands as he fled. “I thought I was fixing to die,” said Vavrusa, 28, who was earning $10 an hour to groom the ranch for quail and dove hunters. Exxon, the biggest U.S. oil producer, has neglected this stretch of Texas since its oil fields began drying up in the 1970s, said Jerry Patterson, the state’s General Land Office Commissioner. Now Patterson and other state officials are urging Texas lawmakers to follow the examples of California and Pennsylvania in cracking down on oilfield practices that have left leaking pipelines, wells and storage tanks.

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"Looting Main Street"

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Matt Taibbi, Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez - Apr. 12 (Interview) - This scheme is not at all uncommon. I think in Jefferson County, it might have been a little bit more obscene and cartoonish than it is in other places. But there are communities all over America that are starting to see these interest rate swap deals blow up. The Pennsylvania school system, Detroit, the city of Detroit, Los Angeles, Oakland, Chicago—they’re everywhere. And so, we’re going to start seeing what happened in Jefferson County occur in counties all over the country.

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