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McCain suggests raiding Colorado's water
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| By Bob Ewegen | DenverPost.com | Aug. 15, 2008
As a senator, McCain has long represented a state, Arizona, that would love to steal Colorado's water. But now, he wants our votes. Apparently, nobody bothered to brief the candidate who Paris Hilton called "that wrinkly, white-haired guy" that stealing Colorado's water to benefit Arizona, California and Nevada isn't as popular an idea in Colorado as it is in Arizona, California and Nevada. Read
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The Many Environmental and Health Benefits of Hemp
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| By Sheryl Walters | NaturalNews.com | Aug. 12, 2008
It seems as though hemp is not only an answer to our global health problems, both for people who don’t have enough to eat and for people in the western world who are malnourished from eating the wrong foods, but also an answer to our environmental crisis. Read
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GM crop trials 'should be secret' claim researchers
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| By Pallab Ghosh | BBC News | Jul. 28, 2008
The researchers say that vandalism of GM crop trials is holding back research in the area. Current legislation requires the exact location of GM crop trials to be publicly available. But according to those engaged in active research, that information is invariably used by anti-GM protesters to disrupt experiments. Read
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If This Doesn't Violate the Clean Water Act, What Would?
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| By Dan Shapley | The Daily Green | Jul. 2, 2008
Start with a pristine mountain lake in the Alaskan wilderness. Add toxic waste. Kill all the fish. Wipe the lake off the map. Bad for that lake, yes. But is it pollution? The seemingly obvious answer to that question (umm, yes?) is at the heart of a case the Supreme Court has agreed to hear this winter. Read
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Report: Climate change threatens security
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| Associated Press | Jun. 26, 200
Global warming may increase illegal immigration, terrorism. Global warming is likely to increase illegal immigration, create humanitarian disasters and destabilize precarious governments and could add to terrorism, all of which could threaten U.S. national security, according to an assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies. Read
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Dead Zones Grow in the Gulf of Mexico
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| By Kent Garber | US News | Jun. 6, 2008
Each spring, the cycle of death begins anew. Nitrogen and phosphorus, leached from fertilizer, pass from farmland into streams, from streams into rivers—the Mississippi, the Potomac, the Susquehanna—and then, finally, into some of the country's great bodies of water: the Gulf of Mexico, the Chesapeake Bay. Read
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Sheep flatulence inoculation developed
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| By Peter Allen in Paris | The Telegraph | June 6, 2008
New Zealand scientists claim to have developed a "flatulence inoculation" aimed at cutting down on the massive amount of methane produced by its sheep and cows. Such animals are believed to be responsible for more than half of the country's greenhouse gases, causing huge environmental problems. Read
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