U.S. scientists, evangelicals join together in the fight against global warming

U.S. scientists and evangelical Christian leaders joined forces on Wednesday to protect the environment from the ravages of global warming, calling on President George W. Bush and others in power to help.

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Scheme to cut 'carbon footprint'

A scheme designed to help companies measure the total amount of carbon emissions from their goods and services has been launched by the Carbon Trust.

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Vortex of trash in the Pacific

Greenpeace activists aboard a ship off Hawaii have been retrieving old toothbrushes, beach toys, golf balls and even used condoms from a vast vortex of plastic trash in the Pacific Ocean that threatens sea creatures that get tangled in it, eat it or ride on it.

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'Obscenity' of carbon trading

If we want to curb climate change, carbon trading won't do, argues Kevin Smith in the Green Room this week. From the Stern Review to Europe's Emissions Trading Scheme, he argues, the aim of reducing emissions has been perverted by neo-liberal dogma and corporate self-interest.

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Zanzibar islands ban plastic bags

Zanzibar's ban on the import and production of plastic bags has come into effect. Authorities on the semi-autonomous Tanzanian islands say discarded bags damage the marine environment and hurt its crucial tourism industry.

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Election Results From the West

A selection of election results

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U.K. Report: Warming Will Damage Economy

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What's the Economy For, Anyway?

Do measures like GDP measure the things that really matter? This article says no, and I agree.

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Text of the Skeptical Environmentalist's play-by-play rebuttal to a Scientific American critique

In January 2002, Scientific American published a scathing critique of Bjorn Lomborg's book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, titled "Science defends itself against The Skeptical Environmentalist." On this (admittedly not very nice on the eyes) webpage, that article is reproduced w …

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Direct action more likely to influence environmental policy than lobbying politicians or the public?

This is just a stub in a wikipedia article; it would be interesting to read the study itself.

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Senate Report on how postwar intelligence about Iraq compares to prewar findings

The Senate Intelligence Committee's report on how current knowledge compares to the pre-war assessment of Iraq's WMD programs and links to terrorism.

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A proposed constitutional amendment to abolish the electoral college

This is is the text of a proposed constitutional amendment (S. J. Res. 11) sponsored by CA Sens.

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