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Mahatma Gahandi
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corporate greed, the societies of the world are on the brink of a catastrophe
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July 30, 2008
Animals and Animal Rights
Rally outside Prague's KFC for chicken rights
Feds to Stand Up for Seal Hunt; Hearn
EU proposal takes aim at 'cruel' seal hunts
Lawrence leads way in helping animals affected by disasters
Stricken boat off the coast of Bali underscores the threats from unregulated fishing.
Child Labor and Abuse
Of child trafficking and child labour in Malawi
ISPs crucial to child pornography blocks
Coral Reefs and Oceans
Typhoon likely to affect northeast sea
As Ocean Warms, Coral Loses Anchor in Acidic Waters
Eastern Pacific reveals coral reefs’ future
Study finds binding materials lacking in reefs with high CO2
Climate change will increase the erosion of coral reefs
First Statewide Underwater Survey of California Reefs by Citizen Scientists
Reefs may “Unglue” in Oceans with High Carbon Dioxide
Introduced Lionfish decimating tropical fish populations & threatening coral reefs
Corporate News
Sony in talks to buy out Sony BMG Music: report
Anheuser-Busch Sale to InBev Felt in St. Louis
EU Parliament Leader Calls for Global Regulation of Private Equity ...
Private equity Staging a revival
Sirius, XM merger completed, creating US satellite radio giant
BP profits soar on record oil price
Woolworths warns as sales fall
Poor mobile phone sales hit Sony profits
Northrop earnings boosted by new orders
BA in merger talks with Iberia
Toshiba Posts Net Loss in First Quarter
BPs Profit Rose 28%, Exceeding Expectations
Crime
3,000 passports and visas stolen
Changes of murder laws proposed
Overfeeding Your Child May be Considered a Crime
Possible pipe bombs found at 2 Ohio post offices
Russia Wields RICO Law Against U.S. Bank
Crime maps to show offences for every street
Violent crime on the rise, police data shows
Ahmedabad serial blasts suspects handed over to crime branch
Deforestation and Desertification
No-tillage Plus: Cover Crops Offer A Model For Sustainability In Tropical Soils
An interview a shaman in the Amazon rainforest
Brazil defends biofuel's merits
Renaissance Faire canceled after illegal logging at site
Forestry association admits misdeeds in illegal logging operation
Economy
Russia cuts exposure to US mortgage lenders
Tokyo stocks dive as Wall Street plunge rekindles financial fears
OPEC chief says current oil prices 'abnormal'
Vietnam's foreign investment hits record
In Japan, new signs of worsening economy
Treasury Plan To Boost Covered Bonds Greeted Warmly
Wall Street analysts see bigger 2008 loss for Merrill
WTO talks close to collapse amid farm stand-off
Home Price Index Down 15.8% in May
Estimated Federal Deficit For 2009: $482 Billion
Paulson Pushes 'Covered Bonds' In Housing Fix
Mortgage loans reach 'record low'
Americans remain gloomy about the economy
July consumer confidence rises from 16-year low
Wall St takes solace from solid earnings
FTSE lifted by energy and defensive stocks
Financials lead European losses
Gloom sets in for French consumers and industry
Gulf between rich and poor in Britain wider than during Victorian times
NY Governor Warns Of Worst Economy In Decades
China Owns America (Or Will Before Long)
Massive Economic Disaster Seems Possible -- Will Survivalists Get the Last Laugh?
America for Sale; Foreigners on Prowl
New York expecting $2,300,000,000 shortfall
WTO talks collapse amid farm stand-off
Consumer confidence halts slide; homes keep falling
Emerging Diseases
H5N1 Spread Across Northern Nigeria
Official: High risk of dengue after chikungunya
Gold medallist Taufik struck down by fever
Anti-polio, hepatitis drive ordered
Polio rears its head again in western Uttar Pradesh
Bread, milk, polio jab ... all in a morning's shop
Katsina records 44 polio cases
LetsStopAIDS Launches "Spread Trees, Not AIDS" in South Africa
Endangered Species
Our elephants at risk as China profits from ivory
The Red Hills: Tuolumne County’s Rarely Visited ACEC
Garrett steps in to protect cassowary
Tamarin monkeys now call Prescott sanctuary home
Killing of ratels kicks up row
The end of migrations: wildlife's greatest spectacle is critically endangered
Endangered European Wild Cat May Protected By Proposed Network Of Corridors
Bovine Tuberculosis In Wildlife Threatens Endangered Lynx And Cattle Health
NOAA Offers Reward for Information on Sea Turtle Poaching
David Attenborough launches UK Butterfly Survival Zones
Lonesome George about to become a father after 36 year wait
UNESCO adds 27 sites to the World Heritage list
Three more sites in Mexico added to Unesco's World Heritage list
Environment
China’s cars, accelerating a global demand for fuel
Wind energy production in China set to overtake the US experts say
EPA e-mail to workers: Don't answer inspector's questions
Greenpeace mixes praise with criticism for Beijing
China's Games event: smog fighting
George Will’s Verbal Slip About ANWR Reveals More Destructive GOP Think
Truckers sue over access to Los Angeles-area ports
Threats to River Water by Leading Ecologist Jim McMahon
New 'Green' Concrete Technology Is Taking Hold at Manhattan High-Rise Construction Sites
Beijing Not the Only Chinese City Grappling with Pollution
Washington Plans to Cool Overheated Redmond Creeks
Scraping the bottom of the oil barrel a significant new climate risk
U.S. Army works to cut its carbon "bootprint"
Toronto Pays Citizens Hefty Grants For Projects Reducing Carbon Footprint
New Biomass Technology Dramatically Increases Ethanol Yield From Grasses And Yard Waste
Famine and Food Shortages
Food crisis hits Food for the Hungry
34000 prisoners face starvation
Ethiopia: 'Perfect Storm Brewing'
Report warns of looming food shortage
Swarms of rats destroy crops in townships in Chin State
Uganda: Teso Leaders Call for Help Over Hunger
ETHIOPIA: Outlook bleak for pastoral regions as crops fail
Climate change: a look at the bigger picture
CAMBODIA-THAILAND: Communities hoard food as border dispute continues
Floods
Death toll in Ukrainian floods rises to 22
Disaster warning after floods kill 26 in Ukraine and Romania
Floods leave two miners missing, two others trapped in NW China
Hundreds remain trapped by flood water
Towns hit in wallets by floods of rubble
Stress, insomnia seen in flood victims
Indian crops at risk from slow start to monsoon season
Monsoon enters vigorous phase in peninsula
Southwest monsoon 2008 - Daily flood situation report No 57, 28 ..
Genetics, Genetic Engineering, Biotech, and Nanotech
SKorea mulling research request for disgraced cloning expert
Are Meat and Milk From Cloned Animals Really Safe To Eat?
Europeans Adopt Final Opinion on Animal Cloning
Food: Scientists want top security for GM crop tests
Scientists demand protection from anti-GM protestors to assess ...
Researchers predict increase of drought-resistant crops within 10 ...
Cloned Beef Has Already Entered U.S. Food Supply, Even Before FDA Nod
Security becomes main cost in UK GMO crop trials
African scientists to trial GM tobacco to smoke out landmines
Biometrics To Be Used On NZ Border
The Future of Babies: Artificial Wombs and Pregnant Grandmas
Global Warming
Giant chunks break off Canadian ice shelf
For people on Ca Mau coast, it’s a constant battle against sea
Pilot-less Planes Tracking Greenland’s Ice Sheet
Greenland ice may hold clues for KU scientists
Possible To Reduce Emissions By 30 Percent By 2025, Model Shows
Japan adopts action plan against global warming
Global warming blamed for baby penguins death
Conservation group offers strategies to fight global warming
Global Water Supply and Drought
New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission Issues Eminent Domain Order
Addressing our environmental deficit
Drought meant fewer '07 advisories for SC beaches
Pass the sunscreen, the tomatoes are burning
Drought response plan announced in Rocky Mount
Farmers dig in though drought saps confidence
Southern California Will Dry Up Without A Drought Solution Says SCLC
Situation report: Drought/Food Crisis in Ethiopia - 28 Jul 2008
Drought-Stricken Australians Share Water Solutions in Atlanta
Government, Politics, and Privacy Issues
Brown hit by call for resignation and bad poll ratings
Sheehan Hits Signature Goal To Run Vs Pelosi
Reid, Pelosi ready to compromise
U.S. government: We know parenting better than you
McCain backs off his no-new-tax pledge
British Kids Encouraged To Become "Climate Cops"
UK Cinema-Goers To Get Frisked To Fight Terror
Fingerprinted in the name of BAA greed
National Guard Rents 500-Plus Hotel Rooms for Democratic Convention
Big Brother Bluetooth is watching
Millions Of DNA Profiles Passed To Private Firms
Obama's $845 billion U.N. plan forwarded to U.S. Senate floor
UK Think Tank Calls For Limiting Amount Of Children To Save Planet
Health
Pregnancy: Don't eat nuts, don't get stressed and don't use a mobile
FDA: Don’t eat tomalley in American Lobster
Foods high in conjugated linoleic acids can enrich breast milk
Eating fish may explain very low levels of heart disease in Japan
Children at Risk From Current Low Vitamin D Recommendations
MRSA Infections Becoming Commonplace Among Texas High School Football Players
Exposure To Bad Air Raises Blood Pressure, Study Shows
Experts: Ray from U.S. radar base threatens human health
PTSD Leaves Physical Imprint On Brain
Study: 'Pre-dementia' is rising, especially in men
Rapid rise seen in fatal medication errors at home
Human Rights
Liberian Women Advocate Change in Post-Conflict Recovery
Generating awareness on rights of differently-abled voters
Moves to combat female circumcision
In Cambodia, Land Seizures Push Thousands of the Poor Into Homelessness
Italy’s brutal crackdown on Gypsies echoes country’s fascist past
Amnesty: Chinese authorities tarnishing Olympics
MoD threatens to halt training of Kenyan military over claims of ...
China defends human rights record
Amnesty International: Human Rights in China Declining Ahead of ...
Congo-Kinshasa: Rwandan Rebels Attack Human Rights Watch
Syria releases more human rights activists
‘Nigeria Unprepared To Test Its Human Rights Records’
U.S. Reports Drop in Homeless Population
Invasive Species
Plant control funding hits snag
Government agencies and boaters prepare to combat Great Lakes invaders
Micro Chips and RFID
Mining and Mining Pollution
Beijing's Air Pollution: It Isn't The Cars
Mining negatively impacts on agriculture - Cllr
High Arsenic Levels Found in Ringwood
Thanks, Fischer, for protecting us
Nuclear power's future presents a local impact
Misc and Odd News
2008 Beijing Olympics: Before Guests Arrive, Beijing Hides Some Messes
From Comics to James Bond to a Liftoff in the Yard
Angry, late, tired passengers make computers crash
There's life in space, says someone who's been there
Russians dive to bottom of world's deepest lake
Thousands evacuated in Budapest as WW2 bomb found
Natural Disasters
Official: U.N. Lost $10M in Burma
Worst mental health problems from flood still to come
Two Alaskan Volcanoes Erupt, One In Chile Being Watched
Oklahoma observatory keeps watch on Earth's seismic pulse
Yellowstone Park A Ticking Bomb
Sharp 6.1 quake shakes eastern Solomon Islands; no tsunami
Typhoon Fung Wong hurts livelihoods of 450000 people in east China
No oil, chemical leak unless another typhoon hits Romblon
Typhoon kills two in Taiwan: officials
Typhoon Fung Wong leaves five dead in Philippines
Typhoon Causes NT$657.3M Agricultural Loss In Taiwan
Creature feature: Dead zones vs. killer hurricanes
Texans wait for federal money after Hurricane Dolly
Public Warned of Post-Hurricane Hazards
Damages from Hurricane Dolly won't reach major level, says Fitch
Strong quake shakes Southern California
Nuclear and Depleted Uranium
Will French Leaks Harm Nuclear's Revival?
NRC OKs Entergy spinning off 5 nuclear plants
Ameren requests approval for new reactor at Callaway plant
Gov't urged to replace aging reactors
Diplomat close to IAEA says Iran inflates atom progress
Widow's VA claim gaining steam
Argonne not in running to recycle nukes
Iran says nuclear talks 'positive and progressive'
Ahmadinejad Condemns World Powers for Atomic Arsenals (Update2)
Amr Mussa: Nuclear Iran not a threat
Pesticides and Chemical Pollution
Minister vows to revolutionise agri sector
Groups Sue EPA over Pesticide Diazinon
Waters Publishes Rapid Screening Method for 402 Pesticide Residues ...
Scores of fish found dead in Broward County
Organic Pest Control: Mustard -- Hot Stuff For Natural Pest Control
Green lawns have to come with common sense
Punjab zoo to breed Shaheen falcons
Long-lasting effects of the Seveso disaster on thyroid function in ...
Pollution and Toxic Waste
Car Idling Can Cause Financial And Environmental Draw-Backs
SC gets tough on usage of loudspeakers
Police crack down on noise from loud motorcycles
Air pollution health advisory issued
Beijing 'pollution is right in your face'
Air pollution warning from two area fires
Aussies free to pull out if pollution proves too much at Olympics
China's Anti-Pollution Efforts Failing, Olympics Emergency Plan ...
Beijing says "sauna" haze will not last over Games
TVs: Poisoning bodies and minds
Product Recalls
Dorothy Lane Market recalls potentially-contaminated ground beef
House, Senate Reach Agreement On Consumer Product Safety Bill
New England Ropes Recalls Climbing Lines Due to Fall Hazard
Wooden Toys Recalled by Earthentree Due To Choking and Strangulation Hazards
Slavery and Human Trafficking
Oro, Bukidnon top trafficking cases
UN Economic and Social Council adopts anti-trafficking resolution ...
House To Vote On Resolution Apologizing for Slavery
First Welsh site will help victims of ‘modern-day slavery’ rackets
Sex Trade Curbs in India Will Increase Violence, Exploitation and ...
Space, Science, and Technology
NASA Asks Companies for Ideas on Setting Up `Outpost' on Moon
Space Weather: The New Frontier
NASA Phoenix Mission Scientists to Discuss Martian Studies
Raytheon gets $83 million NASA contract
Online threats materializing faster, study shows
Sunscreen being tested for crops
Living on Mars time: Scientists suffer perpetual jet lag
Let the Proton Smashing Begin. (The Rap Is Already Written.)
Wars and Conflicts
Officials: US talks to Iran to legitimize attack
Cambodian, Thai wait for other to redeploy first
Israel-Syria peace talks to resume under Turkish mediation
Militants kill three Pakistani intelligence men
Iraqis' hunt for insurgents in Diyala unearths only ghost towns ...
Guantánamo Memo: A U.S. Trial by Its Looks, but Only So
Karadzic's Followers Protest His Extradition
Power-Sharing Talks Dissolve In Zimbabwe
Russia, Jordan discuss jointly producing grenade launchers
Turkish planes attack rebel Kurds in Iraq
Rwanda genocide court says mandate extended to '09
Cyprus peace talks offer "best chance" of deal: U.N.
U.S. and Iraqi Forces Launch Offensive
U.S. Headed for 'Heightened Alert' Stage
Police defuse bombs found in western Indian city
Iranian president: 'Big powers' going down
Bloody day in Iraq: at least 50 dead and more than 300 injured
Turkish planes attack rebel Kurds in Iraq
Iraq begins crackdown in restive Diyala province
Violence in Iraq nearing 'normal' levels: Petraeus
Pakistan PM promises more secure Afghanistan border
Taliban's war of words undermines Afghanistan's nation building
Inside Afghanistan's 'Narco-State'
Canadian troops in Afghanistan kill 2 children
Zimbabwe crisis talks adjourn amid rumors of a breakdown
Africa Update: New US Sanctions For Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe to revert to Security Council if talks fail: diplomat
Zimbabwe negotiators fly home as crisis talks break up
AL official hails Sudanese gov't for effects to solve Darfur crisis
Rights Groups: Peacekeepers Not Doing Enough for Darfur Civilians
Sudan sentences eight to death over Darfur rebel attack
Weird Weather
LIFEGUARD BACK IN A FLASH AFTER STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
Pre-Olympics Beijing haunted by growing weather concerns
Grains fall ahead of weather forecast
Warm weather hurts fish, economies
Cool weather takes bite out of West Nile
Warm, Dry Weather Favors Northern Plains Small Grain Harvesting
Deputies: 14-month-old girl dies in heat wave
Heat wave ties 8-year record today, 134-year record tomorrow
Weather Eye: heatwave sparks flying ants' mating frenzy
Heat Wave Hits Metro: Health Experts Warn Give Advice on How to ...
No let up in Big Country's suffering heat wave
Continuing heat wave across Central Texas causing potential dangers
Saskatchewan 'up and over' yearly tornado average after four more ...
Wildfires
Wildfire threatens homes and vacations in Yosemite
Wildfires send smoke, ash over Yosemite
Air tanker drops in wildfires are often just for show
Alaska forests hit with more wildfires, infestations as climate ...
Wildfires prompt health advisory