Tag: pollution
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November 24, 2009 06:29 PM EST --
I just heard on BBC News that England will plant millions of trees in England in the next 40 years to help slow global warming.
Why don't we help out. If you have some land, add another . . .
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November 23, 2009 05:56 PM EST --
I live in Southern Ca in a city called Long Beach (it is in LA county) anyway we have a place here called Signal Hill that you can go to the top and see the whole city. We were up there a . . .
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April 06, 2009 05:08 PM EDT --
CHICAGO (UPI) -- Polluted water from Chicago has helped create a dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, where excess algae suffocates marine life, says a U.S. Geological Survey study.
Chicago was named the . . .
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November 25, 2009 02:54 PM EST --
Scientists have released The Copenhagen Diagnosis , a summary of hundreds of studies that have taken place over the 3 years since the last IPCC Report was issued. The major findings in these studies . . .
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September 27, 2007 12:46 PM EDT --
How stupid can you be! It all runs off and gets in the streams and lakes and rivers, killing them! And there is a terrible pollution problem in Minnesota's entire water system . . .
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June 20, 2008 07:21 PM EDT --
Keep in mind, Canada has the world's largest supply of a commodity that's getting harder to find...drinking water.
Mon Jun 16, 9:42 PM
CBC News has learned that 16 Canadian lakes are slated . . .
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September 03, 2009 03:38 PM EDT --
At a recent meeting of the American Chemical Society , the worlds largest professional scientific society, a researcher from Japan presented a paper demonstrating that plastics floating in the ocean . . .
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November 04, 2006 01:09 PM EST --
Get an in-depth pollution report for your county, covering air, water, chemicals, and more.
I was really shocked with my county.
http://www.scorecard.org./
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May 16, 2009 02:02 PM EDT --
They say the 3's are the hardest.
Day 3,
3 weeks,
and 3 months.
Today, marks day 7 of no smoking.
Last saturday, I just said "I think I am going to quit today" and like that, . . .
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February 24, 2008 04:02 PM EST --
I have a desktop weather icon that tells me the temperature and flashes red when there is a weather advisory. I happened to look down to see the temp, and saw that it was flashing red. I clicked on the . . .
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October 24, 2007 08:13 AM EDT --
Last night CNN and the Discovery Channel aired the documentary, Planet in Peril. The documentary touched on many environmental and resource issues around the globe. Biomonitoring, the measurement . . .
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January 18, 2007 11:42 AM EST --
Time passes and the earth groans
in agony, not pains of birth, but
rather of misunderstanding
and neglect;
From the oceans to the streams,
the water fades in lustre, and
the mountaintops wither, . . .
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September 04, 2007 02:03 PM EDT --
Down with the tyranny of cars!!!
My ears really are a part of my body.
Noise pollution really is pollution.
I hate your car alarm!!!
Get it fixed before even more people hate your guts!
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September 30, 2008 04:50 PM EDT --
Take a look at the map:
http://www.wri.org/map/world-hypoxic-and-eutrophic-coastal-areas
The worst areas of oceanic hypoxia are at the mouth of the Mississippi, the Chesapeake Bay, the Baltic . . .
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February 27, 2009 04:10 PM EST --
Chicago, IL
Global warming and our "absurd over-dependence on carbon-based fuels" is interconnected with the looming economic and national security crises said former US Vice President . . .
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January 02, 2008 11:52 AM EST --
washingtonpost.com
Remember This: 350 Parts Per Million
By Bill McKibben
Friday, December 28, 2007; Page A21
This month may have been . . .
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January 16, 2008 11:03 AM EST --
Frustrated with the diet fads being promoted on Gather and elsewhere, Deb A. recently posted a wonderful satire on diets.
I have been a bit frustrated myself about people's attitudes . . .
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August 15, 2008 07:52 AM EDT --
This is a poem I wrote when I was a teenager.
Day by day, year by year
Things are changing too much, I fear
Pollution's spreading, it silently chokes
Nature, who's fallen . . .
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June 07, 2009 09:49 AM EDT --
At home I see the Milky Way
In town I see the lonely Moon.
The city folk can never say
At night I see the Milky Way.
While smoke and dust pollute by day
Unneeded . . .
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September 29, 2009 10:43 AM EDT --
Not long ago I posted here about a continent of plastic circulating in the Pacific gyre, and how slow degradation of some plastics may actually be releasing toxins. Since then a great deal of discussion . . .
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