| Mar 21 | It\'S Spring In The Northern Hemisphere Spring arrived this weekend in the Northern Hemisphere. After what was a cold and snowy winter in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast US, Spring arrived and there are signs of nature awakening. The spring flowers are appearing and there are new birds in o.. |
| Mar 21 | Ron Kovic Salutes U.S. Iraq War Resisters In Canada Vietnam Veteran Ron Kovic salutes U.S. Iraq War resisters in Canada on 7th Anniversary of invasion. |
| Mar 21 | Science Justifies California Water Limits Federal limits on water that can be pumped out of a major river delta for California farmers are scientifically justified, a much-anticipated report said on Friday, a finding hailed by environmentalists in the state\'s epic water wars. But the Nationa.. |
| Mar 21 | The Futility Economy It\'s the first business day of the new year and oil is trading above $80 a barrel, which means the price has re-entered the danger zone where it can crush industrial economies. This is a central element of the predicament... |
| Mar 21 | Afghanistan\'S My Lai Massacre Truthout.org (http://www.truthout.org/where-are-this-wars-heroes-military-and-journalistic57406)When Charlie Company\'s Lt. William Calley ordered and encouraged his men to rape, maim and slaughter over 400 men, women and children in My Lai in Vietna.. |
| Mar 21 | Where Have The Plastic Bags Gone? Plastic bags are everywhere. Many years ago the only bags at the grocery store were paper ones. Now you have a choice of paper, plastic or bring your bag. Where have all the bags gone after they are used? Plastic bag and film recycling in the U.S. re.. |
| Mar 21 | A Future For Agriculture, A Future For Haiti We plant but we cant produce or market. We plant but we have no food to eat. We want agriculture to improve so our country can live and so we peasants can live, too. Rilo Petit-homme, peasant organizer... |
| Mar 21 | Horses Never Forget Human Friends Human friends may come and go, but a horse could be one of your most loyal, long-term buddies if you treat it right, suggests a new study. Horses also understand words better than expected, according to the research, and possess \"excellent memories,\".. |
| Mar 21 | Weather Anomalies Of Winter 2010 To the average person, the weather this winter, especially in February, has certainly been a departure from those winters of the past few years. There has been record snowfall in the mid-Atlantic region, bitter cold in the Deep South, and remarkably .. |
| Mar 21 | Proactive Organizing Gets Best Results I had an email this morning from a very well intentioned activist in another part of the country urging people to turn out today for an emergency vigil to mark the death of the 1,000th U.S. GI killed... |
| Mar 21 | EU Countries Block Bluefin Tuna Ban A U.S.-backed proposal to ban the export of Atlantic bluefin tuna prized in sushi was rejected Thursday by a U.N. wildlife meeting, with scores of developing nations joining Japan in opposing a measure they feared would devastate fishing economies. .. |
| Mar 21 | New Study Lifts The Curtain On Clean Coal cleantechnica.com (eantechnica.com/2009/07/12/new-study-lifts-the-curtain-on-clean-coal/)A new study from West Virginia University (http://www.health.wvu.edu/newsreleases/news-details.aspx?ID=1217) exposes one more dirty little secret about America.. |
| Mar 21 | Canada Uses Aid Politics To Further Palestinian Divi.. thedailynuisance.com (http://www.thedailynuisance.com/column/2010/feb/jesse-rosenfeld-straddling-the-wall-canada-uses-aid-politics-to-further-palestinian-)In a uniquely Canadian polite and subtle way, the countrys Conservative government has made a.. |
| Mar 21 | Czech Minister Quits Over Controversial Power Plant Czech Environment Minister Jan Dusik resigned Thursday from the caretaker cabinet, saying the prime minister had put pressure on him to decide hastily on plans to upgrade a controversial large coal-fired power plant. The ministry has yet to rule on t.. |
| Mar 21 | Planets In Other Star Systems An extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, is a planet outside the Solar System. There are billions of stars in our galaxy and a significant percentage of these stars are likely to have planets orbiting them. There are also planets orbiting brown dwarfs and.. |
| Mar 21 | Petition Demands Canadian Taxpayers \"Stop Subsidizin.. Revenue Canada asked to Cancel Tax Exemptions of Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada at Vancouver Protest:At a morning press conference and protest yesterday, members of The Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared (FRD) delivered to.. |
| Mar 21 | Eggshell Of Extinct Giant Bird Provides Ancient DNA In a world first an international team of researchers have successfully extracted ancient DNA from the eggshells of various species of extinct birds. The research, published in scientific journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, shows that fossil .. |
| Mar 21 | Malcom X Reminds Us: America Needs To Understand Isl.. As black history month draws to a close, I worry increasingly about the overt racism towards America\'s first African-American president (regardless of his policies), and the continuing momentum of Islamophobia in America and around the world. |
| Mar 21 | After The Earthquake: One Thousand Tents For Haiti UpsideDownWorld.org (http://upsidedownworld.org/main/haiti-archives-51/2357-one-thousand-tents-for-haiti)As the extent of the destruction in Haiti becomes clear, so do the priorities on the ground. The majority of Haitians affected by the earthquake.. |
| Mar 21 | Air Quality Is Improving In Much Of The US Do we really need all the regulatory programs at the federal and state levels of government? Do they really work to improve the quality of our air and water? Are they worth their cost in terms of regulatory burden and costs of compliance? In short, y.. |
| Mar 21 | Top-Down Planet Hackers Call For Bottom-Up Governanc.. Geoengineers Bid to Establish Voluntary Testing Regime Must be Opposed While most scientists left the Copenhagen Climate Summit feeling gloomy about their influence, a small group of geoengineering advocates came away emboldened by the summits weak o.. |
| Mar 21 | Deal Nearing On Senate Climate Bill The Senate is close to wrapping up talks ahead of introducing a compromise climate change bill, said a top Democratic lawmaker who discussed ideas with industry groups on Wednesday. \"We\'re planning to button up our efforts somewhere I hope next week,.. |
| Mar 21 | Blue Fin Tuna Decline And Fall The Atlantic blue fin tuna is one of the largest, fastest, and most gorgeously colored of all the world’s fishes. Their torpedo shaped, streamlined bodies are built for speed and endurance. Their coloring (metallic blue on top and silver white .. |
| Mar 21 | History Repeats: Committee Of Relatives Of The Detai.. mimundo-photoessays.org (http://www.mimundo-photoessays.org/2010/02/history-repeats-committee-of-relatives.html)The so-called 80s were characterized by a wave of violence in several countries in Latin America. Our country, Honduras, was not an exc.. |
| Mar 21 | Deepening Debt Crisis: The Bernanke Reappointment: B.. michael-hudson.com (http://www.michael-hudson.com/articles/usa/100202RoadToDebtPeonage.html)If the economy deteriorates in the L-shaped hockey-stick rut that many economists forecast, what political price will President Obama and the Democrats pay.. |
| Mar 21 | Are Utilities Ready For Smart Meters? The rollout of the highly touted Smart Grid ran into another buzz saw this week, this time in Texas, when a hundreds of consumers showed up at a town hall meeting, and the Grand Prairie City Hall, in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, complaining that their.. |
| Mar 21 | New Analysis: 15% Cut In U.S. Carbon Emissions Achie.. NEW YORK (March 12, 2010) — New analysis released today at a symposium on \"Climate, Mind and Behavior\" reveals that Americans can reduce U.S. carbon pollution by 15 percent — or one billion tons of global warming pollution — through.. |
| Mar 21 | GM Wheat Rejected By 233 Consumer And Farmer Groups .. Ottawa, Montreal, Washington, Tokyo, Sydney233 consumer and farmer groups in 26 countries have joined the Definitive Global Rejection of GM Wheat statement to stop the commercialization of genetically modified (GM) wheat and remind the biotechnology.. |
| Mar 21 | First Nations Group Sends Ultimatum To United Church.. The Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared have sent a letter of intent to the United Church of Canada (UCC), advising them of a pending campaign, unless the UCC commence[s] a process of repatriating for a proper... |
| Mar 21 | Waste Management To Deploy First Plasma Gasification.. S4 Energy Solutions LLC, a joint venture by Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE: WM) and InEnTec LLC, announced plans to develop a plasma gasification facility at Waste Management\'s Columbia Ridge Landfill in Arlington, Oregon. The planned facility will con.. |
| Mar 21 | California To Get More Water California\'s drought-baked cities and farms will get considerably more water this year than last from federal officials, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Tuesday, making good on forecasts issued in February after a series of strong winter storm.. |
| Mar 21 | Shrimp Under Glacier Life thrives where one least expects it. In a surprising discovery about where life can exist, scientists for the first time found a curious shrimp like creature and a piece of a jellyfish beneath a massive Antarctic ice sheet. Six hundred feet below.. |
| Mar 21 | Life-Cycle Studies: Beer Enkidu, a man raised by wild animals in the classic Sumerian poem Epic of Gilgamesh, knew nothing of beer until a prostitute guided him to a shepherd\'s camp. Upon finishing seven full cups, \"his soul became free and cheerful, his heart rejoiced, his .. |
| Mar 21 | China Must Boost Its Global Science Impact, Study Fi.. [BEIJING] China\'s international science influence is still weak, even though its investment in science has rapidly increased in recent years, a report has found. |
| Mar 21 | CO2 At New Highs Despite Economic Slowdown Levels of the main greenhouse gas in the atmosphere have risen to new highs in 2010 despite an economic slowdown in many nations that braked industrial output, data showed on Monday. Carbon dioxide, measured at Norway\'s Zeppelin station on the Arctic.. |
| Mar 21 | EPA Makes Chemical Information More Accessible, And .. The web has been a valuable source of information on the releases of toxic chemicals in our communities, and for citizens and environmental action groups to see what companies and facilities are emitting air pollutants, discharging water pollution, a.. |
| Mar 21 | Salt And Smog The smell of sea salt at the beach is a pleasant thought for many beach goers. Wind and waves kick up spray sending salt (sodium chloride into the air. Most salt of this sort falls back into the sea or nearby beach. The bit of chloride lingering in t.. |
| Mar 21 | 48 Kauai Species Protected Under The Endangered Spec.. HONOLULU— In response to a 2004 petition and two lawsuits from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it is finalizing listing for 48 species from the island of Kauai with designation of cri.. |
| Mar 21 | California Caps SF6 Emissions For Utilities The California Air Resources Board recently announced that they will begin monitoring and limiting the emissions of sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) in high-voltage electrical equipment starting in 2011. SF6 is the most potent of all greenhouse gases which .. |
| Mar 21 | Deep-Sea Volcanoes Play Key Climate Role A vast network of under-sea volcanoes pumping out nutrient-rich water in the Southern Ocean plays a key role in soaking up large amounts of carbon dioxide, acting as a brake on climate change, scientists say. A group of Australian and French scientis.. |
| Mar 21 | USA Urged To Confront Shocking Maternal Mortality Ra.. Calls on President Barack Obama to tackle soaring rates of maternal mortality and pregnancy-related complications in the U.S. |
| Mar 21 | Bill & Melinda Gates, Asian Parliamentary Group, Win.. United Nations Population Award Winners Announced Today |
| Mar 21 | Afghan Women Must Be Included In Reconciliation Proc.. Afghan Women Must be Included in Reconciliation Process |
| Mar 21 | Victory For Women In Spain After Battle Over New Abo.. Spain senate votes to ease the countrys restrictions on abortion |
| Mar 21 | ACLU Sues To Obtain Information About Taxpayer-Funde.. CONTACT: Will Matthews, (212) 549-2582 or 2666; media@aclu.org |
| Mar 21 | Black History Month: Addressing Health Disparities http://www.guttmacher.org/media/inthenews/2010/02/16/index.html |
| Mar 21 | Washington, DC Introduction Event -- International V.. Event will be held Thursday, February 4 on Capitol Hill |
| Mar 21 | Haiti Relief Efforts Cannot Afford To Overlook Repro.. Relief Efforts Cannot Afford to Overlook Reproductive Health Needs |
| Mar 21 | FOLLOWING DECADE-LONG DECLINE, U.S. TEEN PREGNANCY R.. Gap Between Blacks and Hispanics Has Closed, But Rates Among Both Groups Remain Significantly Higher Than Among Non-Hispanic Whites |
| Mar 21 | Haiti Disaster: IPPF Provides Urgent Health Response Haiti Disaster: IPPF Provides Urgent Health Response |
| Mar 21 | Britain. A Breath Of Foul Air Independent (UK): More than 50,000 people are dying prematurely in the UK every year, and thousands more suffer serious illness because of man-made air pollution, according to a parliamentary report published tomorrow. The UK now faces the threat of .. |
| Mar 21 | Feeble Wind Farms Fail To Hit Full Power Times (UK): THE first detailed study of Britain\'s onshore wind farms suggests some treasured landscapes may have been blighted for only small gains in green energy. The analysis reveals that more than 20 wind farms produce less than a fifth of their .. |
| Mar 21 | Philippines: Drought Drives Monkeys Out Of Forests,.. Philippine Daily Inquirer: LACK of food due to drought has forced monkeys to leave their sanctuaries in Barangay New Israel here and take refuge in nearby forested areas. \"It all started when severe heat wilted some crops in the village including ban.. |
| Mar 21 | Cruise Lines Hope To Sink U.S.-Canada Pollution Plan Reuters: Cruise companies are balking at a proposal to create a low-emissions buffer zone around the United States and Canada, saying it sets arbitrary boundaries based on faulty science that overstates the health benefits. The proposed Emissions Con.. |
| Mar 21 | Japan Planning 14 Nuclear Plants: Report Agence France-Presse: Resource-poor Japan is planning to build at least 14 nuclear power plants over the next 20 years to reduce its reliance on other countries for its energy needs, a report said Sunday. The world\'s second biggest economy, which wan.. |
| Mar 21 | Solution To A Thirsty World: Sea Water Without The S.. Times (UK): MIDDLE East government officials spent last week in Vienna, discussing oil at a meeting of Opec, the producers\' cartel. In Oman, however, another dwindling resource was top of the agenda. In the coastal town of Al Khaluf, Oman\'s minister .. |
| Mar 21 | Bristol Cinema Sets Up Film Shows For Haiti\'S Earthq.. Volunteers offer Disney and Pixar favourites to youngsters traumatised by natural disasters in Haiti Dusk falls, the insects bite and a makeshift open air cinema screen is set up. Scores of children gather and are transfixed by the flickering images.. |
| Mar 21 | Angela Merkel: EU Summit Should Not Discuss Bailout .. European commission president José Manuel Barroso had called for eurozone countries to use summit to agree co-ordinated package of loans to be put in place for Greece The stage is set for a showdown between Angela Merkel and José Manuel Barroso, the.. |
| Mar 21 | Pierrot Bidon Obituary Archaos founder who reinvented circus as an edgy art form for the industrial world Pierrot Bidon, who has died of cancer aged 56, will be best remembered for creating the cult circus troupe Archaos, one of the ensembles that galvanised the new circu.. |
| Mar 21 | Girija Koirala Obituary Leading statesman and architect of democracy in Nepal Girija Koirala, who has died aged 85 of a chest infection, played a dominant role in Nepalese politics from 1990 up to the installation of a Maoist-led government in April 2008, serving five time.. |
| Mar 21 | Gay Couple Turned Away From B&B By Christian Owners \'Shocked and embarrassed\' pair say they felt treated like lepers and reported matter to police A gay couple were turned away from a bed and breakfast by its Christian owner who claimed it was against her convictions for two men to share a bed. Micha.. |
| Mar 21 | Max Salpeter Obituary Eminent violinist and orchestra leader The distinguished violinist Max Salpeter, who has died aged 101, led such orchestras as the Philharmonia Orchestra, London Mozart Players, New London Orchestra, Boyd Neel Orchestra, Pro-Arte Orchestra and the r.. |
| Mar 21 | No More Feeds No more feeds. Download the soruce code here http://them.ws/stuff/tmp/feeds.zip You\'ll need to create a database table for this to work properly. The required SQL commands are in themws_rss.sql. Open that in a text editor and and copy the command and.. |
| Mar 21 | Charity Warns Of Dangers Facing Children In Haiti Save the Children says risk to health \'extremely serious\' as country struggles to recover from earthquake Children have been badly affected by the earthquake that brought devastation to Haiti in January. Save the Children says an estimated 1 million.. |
| Mar 21 | Anna Nicole Smith Estate Loses Court Appeal Over Bil.. Court of appeals backs Houston jury that said J Howard Marshall was mentally fit when he wrote will leaving nearly all his state to his son and nothing to Smith The Texan billionaire who married Anna Nicole Smith in the last year of his life never i.. |
| Mar 21 | Speaking Up For Scientists | Philip Strange We can be arrogant and nerdish, but overall scientists do not set out to deceive themselves or the public Last weekend on Cif Nicholas Maxwell accused scientists of \"deceiving us and themselves about the nature of science\". As an experimental biomed.. |
| Mar 21 | British Girl Killed By Car On Florida Beach Ellie Bland, 4, struck by car on Daytona beach while on holiday A four-year-old British girl on a family holiday died after being hit by a car on a Florida beach at the weekend. Ellie Bland, from Nottingham, was on the sands at Daytona beach in the .. |
| Mar 21 | Giant Heeds Consumer Calls To Go Green - Inquirer.Ne.. Giant heeds consumer calls to go green Inquirer.net The shift toward a more environment friendly and sustainable lifestyle is indeed promising to be permanent, prompting multibillion-dollar consumer goods ... and more » |
| Mar 21 | Canadian Avalanche Kills Two French Skiers Third deadly avalanche hits British Columbia in a week A third deadly avalanche in British Columbia within a week killed two French skiers as they were descending a mountain after being dropped off by helicopter, police said today. A third man caugh.. |
| Mar 21 | Anti-Roma Prejudice Not Demolished In A Day | Slaven.. The paradox of a Roma victory in the European court of human rights is that many Roma people fear a backlash all the more The last time you heard about Roma people was, in all probability, when one of them was stabbed, burned or shot at in Hungary, .. |
| Mar 21 | Rio Raises Efforts To Build Bridges With China As It.. Four staff from mining company face court tomorrow charged with bribery and stealing industrial secrets Four Rio Tinto will go on trial in Shanghai tomorrow accused of bribery and stealing industrial secrets, even as the mining company increases its.. |
| Mar 21 | Obama Confident He Has Votes To Pass Healthcare Bill Democrats claim to have won over doubters to pass landmark legislation to ensure coverage for 95% of Americans Democratic party leaders predicted they finally have the votes in the bag to pass the health reform bill later today, giving Barack Obama .. |
| Mar 21 | Pope Fails To Quell Irish Scandal Pontiff criticised for failing to set out reform programme as pressure grows on bishops Pope Benedict XVI\'s pastoral letter to Ireland\'s Catholics has failed to arrest the scandal engulfing the church, with pressure growing for the resignation of bi.. |
| Mar 21 | Memo To US: Only Fools Rush In | Sarah Anderson If negotiators aren\'t careful, a US-China investment treaty could prove as explosive as currency manipulation or climate change US diplomats are no doubt eager to find something – anything – on which the Obama administration and China can agree. So .. |
| Mar 21 | 24 Hours In Pictures A selection of the best images from around the world |