With drought conditions chronic in the Sahel, many farmers give up trying to grow crops and head to towns and cities to find work. In Chad many go to the south or to...
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It may look like the it’s gone — but oil from the BP spill may be mixing with dispersants and being absorbed into your body. That’s the...
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At least five people were killed when a series of suspected tornadoes tore through the Midwest all day Saturday and into Sunday. The National Weather Service...
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The San Francisco Bay Area has been buffeted by bad weather lately, and as a rare thunder storm rumbled through, photographer Phil McGrew thought to set up his camera...
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Talisman Energy and other corporations have set their sights on the Achuar cultural lands in Peru. This video made by the Achuar shows their life in pursuit of living...
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Still reeling from last year's devastating drought that led to at least $10 billion in agricultural losses across Texas and the South, the nation is enduring...
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The energy minister is to visit Iceland in May to discuss connecting the UK to its abundant geothermal energy. Iceland could soon be pumping low-carbon electricity...
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Since 2001, 10 Northeast states that participated in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative have proved to be pioneers in reducing fossil fuel pollution and creating...
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Farmers and ranchers will for the first time need a prescription from a veterinarian before using antibiotics in farm animals, in hopes that more judicious use of the...
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"Anyone who's tried a weekend home improvement project knows that to do a job right, you've got to have the right tools. For cells, these...
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Global warming is causing accelerated decay of Matterhorn, high peaks around the world - Common Dreams staff One of the highest peaks in the Alps, Matterhorn, is...
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Fires increased dramatically in Amazonian lowlands after the arrival of Columbus in the New World. Pre-Columbian farming techniques were more productive and more...
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An 8.7 magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's Aceh province, the U.S. Geological Survey said today, prompting residents to flee to higher ground as...
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Monsanto, Philip Morris and other U.S. tobacco giants knowingly poisoned Argentinean tobacco farmers with pesticides, causing "devastating birth defects" in...
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Symptoms of a mysterious disease that has killed scores of seals off Alaska and infected walruses are now showing up in polar bears, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)...
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Karina Pinasco watched in dismay as flames on a hillside at the edge of town lit up the sky one night in October 2010. A farmer had intended to clear a few hectares...
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Just a note that the Monsanto Round Up reports I have been doing for over the last two years on Current will be featured today on the Sustainable Agriculture Group....
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Considering some states in the US are looking to change their educational standards on both Climate Change AND Evolution, (http://is.gd/newY0h) this story might be...
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Video Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio One of the most striking changes that has taken place in the Arctic since the start...
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"Naked animals may not cause even a blush, but a look under the covers of our four-legged friends (and finned ones) is a revelation. Gunther von Hagens,...
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