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Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, along with Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense, are asking people to sign a petition supporting the bipartisan McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act, which will soon come up for a vote. You can click on the same link to read a summary of the bill, which would cap greenhouse emissions. Over 200,000 people have signed the petition so far, and they hope to reach their goal of 300,000.

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The assistant director of Mel Gibson’s film “The Passion Of Christ” has been hit by lightning twice while shooting the film near Rome, and the actor playing Jesus has been hit once. Neither actor Jim Caviezel nor assistant director Jan Michelini were badly hurt. The film’s producer Steve McEveety says, “I’m about a hundred feet away from them when I glance over and see smoke coming out of Caviezel’s ears.”

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Icebergs that calve off giant ice shelves can create “deserts” in the ocean by blocking sunlight from reaching marine life. An iceberg 20 miles wide and 124 miles long named C-19, that broke off from the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica last year, is wiping out marine wildlife. It’s killing phytoplankton, which is a key element in the Antarctic food chain. Entire colonies of penguins have disappeared.

Geophysicist Kevin Arrigo says, “It’s absolutely horrendous.” An earlier iceberg, called B-15, that broke loose from the Ross Ice Shelf in 2000, also had a giant impact. Arrigo thought that one was “really big?But it was just dwarfed by what we saw this past year.
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Scientists who measured the mercury levels in Yellowstone National Park recently were surprised by what they found at the base of Roaring Mountain: one of the highest levels of mercury ever found in an undisturbed natural area. Mercury is a highly toxic pollutant often associated with volcanoes, and recent reports say Yellowstone is overdue for an supervolcano eruption.
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