In an unprecedented admission of blame, Communist Party officials gave a stark warning yesterday of impending disaster in the vast area around the dam if preventive measures are not urgently introduced.
The Washington, D.C.-based Wilderness Society analyzed drilling plans and said oil and gas exploration was poised to push into some of the West's most environmentally sensitive areas. That includes plans to drill in Colorado's Roan Plateau, the Upper Green River Basin in Wyoming and Montana's portion of the Powder River Basin.
Stacks of bottled water are seen in a supermarket in Rots, France, July 2006. With US bottled water sales growing nearly 10 percent annually -- and the trash from tossed containers climbing just as quickly -- calls for Americans to go back to drinking tap water have surged since the beginning of summer.
Corals in the central and western Pacific ocean are dying faster than previously thought, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers have found. Nearly 600 square miles of reef have disappeared per year since the late 1960s, twice the rate of rainforest loss.
This study by CNW found that, contrary to what seems intuitive, hybrid cars actually produce more pollution than many SUVs during their life cycle. This study, while hotly debated, certainly proves the "law of unintended consequences".
This paper gives an indepth look, based solely on numbers, at the sources of energy that power modern civilization. Locations of reserves, production estimates, and consumption rates of oil, coal, and natural gas are all discussed here, as are alternatives sources such as wind and solar.
This paper talks about the various alternative forms of energy that are currently being developed to replace fossil fuels; alternatives for both electricity generation and transportation fuel are discussed.
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