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It's Not Easy Being Green

Tuesday, March 2, 2004

Patrick Moore help found Greenpeace in 1971, but today he's pushing GM foods and nuclear power plants. And the Sierra Club is being taken over by anti-immigration activists. What's going on here?

Drake Bennett writes in wired.com that despite campaigning in the past against nuclear testing, Moore joined the other side in 1986. Today he...

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Weeds Take Over the World

Tuesday, May 15, 2001

Evolution scientists in London warn of the spread of a global ?pest and weed? environment, with animals and plants such as rats, cockroaches and dandelions flourishing at the expense of more specialized wild species.

They say that in the next 5 million years, short-term evolution will favor species able to thrive in the margins of human...

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Greenhouse Gases Now Seen From Space

Monday, March 19, 2001

New evidence from satellites orbiting the Earth has put an end to an doubts about whether greenhouse gases are actually increasing.

Until now, researchers depended on ground-based measurements and theoretical models to measure the increase. New sets of data taken from two satellites orbiting the Earth have now provided the first directly...

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Water Flows Out of Devastation

Tuesday, February 27, 2001

As a result of January's devastating earthquake, water has suddenly reappeared in the middle of an arid section of India.

Water sprung up after the earthquake liquefied the clay and sand in ancient river beds. Underground water quickly rose to the surface to flood the channels.

This is an area of India that is regularly hit by...

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