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Pets and Women’s Shelters (PAWS)™ Program Provides On-Site Housing for Pets, Giving Victims More Reason to Leave Abusive Homes.Visit For Paws Hospice to learn more about human-animal bond and what you can do to protect companion animals in your community.Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the EconomyVisit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the

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Veggie Revolution: Ecotourism can buffer the effects of poverty

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Gang injunctions; solution or political theatreThe city of San Francisco is known all over the world for its natural beauty, gourmet restaurants, and booming nightlife. When people think about San Francisco, they don’t often think about gang violence. But that’s just what’s been plaguing the city’s mission district for many years.On this edition, Making Contact intern Joaquin Palomino spoke to

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Michael Pollan talks about his garden zen and the moment he became aware of corn's plan for world domination. Greener Magazine

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A noticeable lack of unembedded reporting on the Iraq war has lead to a corresponding lack of information about the realities of this war. What truths go unreported? Will the Bush administration attack Iran? What will the increased militarization in Pakistan mean for the Middle East? How will the United States government and the people respond?On this edition, independent journalists David

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Kiva, Loans that change lives. The microloan groundswell that began just 2 years ago is making a difference one loan at a time to small business and individuals worldwide again this year with record numbers of small lenders like you and your neighbor investing as little as $25 at a time.Kishwer Azam's family business is just one of many helped by these peer to peer loans. Over the months to come

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War hurts, we've looked at the environmental impact of war many times before this and it's notable that the U.S. Army now mandates a response to the impact of warfare operations on the environment through the U.S. Army Environmental Command, USAEC initiative, but elsewhere war goes on, other countries other conflicts and the record over the years has been dismal, the effects, catostrophic. From

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For those present in Oslo today to hear Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance lecture it may have seemed the Nobel Laureate was in fact preaching to the choir but the fact is, the assembled audience was no ordinary choir; heads of state, scientists and activists like Uma Thurman one would expect should not be surprised by Gore's rhetoric, he's been warning the world about global warming for

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In the United States, HIV/AIDS is no longer just a disease affecting white, gay men. The percentage of cases of women living with HIV has tripled in the past 20 years, and women of color are most affected. Yet outdated perceptions about the epidemic drive government prevention work, from the way data is collected to who gets tested.On this edition, those on the frontlines of the grassroots HIV/

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In 1951, the first Atom bomb was detonated over a section of desert called Frenchman Flat, about ninety miles northwest of Las Vegas.For more than forty years, this stretch of sage brush and sand would become ground zero for U.S. nuclear testing. In fact, the last detonation happened just fifteen years ago, on September 23, 1992.Since the early 1990’s, independent producer Claes Andreasson has

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The privatization of public water supplies is occurring in many places around the world. Sold like a common commodity, the rights for distribution and management of community water are being bought and controlled more and more by private entrepreneurs and corporations.But a global movement of activists say this most basic element of life should stay in the hands of the people who use it and out

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A study to be published tomorrow in the journal Nature predicts there will be more virulent disease events in our future as microbes continue to adapt to their environment, us.Many of the most successful microbes are those that inhabit but do not kill their host. What explains their success? A new mathematical model, devised by a microbiologist renowned for his study of H. pylori and a

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Is Iran developing nuclear weapons? Does the U.S. plan to bomb Iran? What do the people of Iran think about U.S. policy? On this edition, we’ll hear the answers to these and other key questions as independent producer and book author Reese Erlich looks at the Bush administration's efforts to overthrow the government of Iran. This radio documentary is based on Erlich’s 2007 book “The Iran Agenda:

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Liberating gender & sexuality It’s a well-worn path in human history. Non-traditional and marginalized communities attacked for their lifestyles and their individual choices… whether it’s based on sexual identity, gender equity or the quest for collective empowerment. So how do we challenge and overcome gender and sexual oppression?Dr. Andrea Smith, of “INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence”

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A multinational coalition of environmental and human rights organizations are calling on Canadian mining company Glencairn Gold Corporation to disclose information about suspected cyanide and metals pollution from the Bellavista gold mine in Costa Rica. Glencairn shut down the mine in late July, following heavy rains that caused substantial earth movements, and has reported in financial

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Carnival, this is the fourth Carnival we've been privileged to host: two on Greener Magazine and one each at The Naked Vegetarian and our own Animal Broadcast Network and the largest yet with some 35 contributors.Thanks to Green Options for last week’s portable feast and be sure to catch Carnival September 3rd on Organic Authority.And, if you have something green to share, surf over to TreeHugger

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Boston 8/22/07:: Scientists meeting in Boston last week announced an advance toward turning corn plants into natural factories producing gelatin.Currently gelatin for food and used by the pharmaceutical industry for manufacturing capsules is derived almost exclusively from animal products. The advance, described Wednesday at the 234th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, may lead to

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Ki•va \´kē-vƏ \ n [Hopi] : An underground or partly underground chamber in a Pueblo village, used by the men especially for ceremonies or councils.NowKiva the little shop of honors, the honor system that is allowing folks like you and me to invest a little or a lot in your fellow man, woman, child.From their site:We let you loan to the working poor"Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to

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Community Resistance to Prison Expansion In the United States, more than 2 million people live behind prison bars. In the state of California alone there are more people locked up than in prisons in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Singapore combined. Dr. Ruth Gilmore is a professor of geography at the University of Southern California, and is a key figure in the grassroots movement fighting

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The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's Air Operations Center at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa serves as home to The Hurricane Hunters. The air group provides life saving, real time information on the formation and progress of earth's deadliest storms. However, the AOC's year round mission as NOAA's air platform for gathering vital data on weather, ocean resources and the

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Musicians have always been the heart and soul of New Orleans and like everyone else in the flood damaged city, they're struggling to survive. Two years after the disaster, only half of the residents have returned, and large swaths of the region remain as uninhabitable as the day the levees broke. And yet the bands play on.On this edition, correspondent Reese Erlich talks with musicians to learn

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EDUN a socially conscious, sustainable clothing company launched in 2005 by Bono’s wife Ali Hewson and clothing designer Rogan Gregory, recently announced unveiled the Conservation Cotton Initiative (CCI).The initiative works towards improving the livelihoods of communities in Africa by promoting greater investment in sustainable and ethical production of conservation-friendly agricultural

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Estimated world wide there are some 150,000 girls and women trafficked each year from within the countries of South Asia, approximate numbers include as many as 5,000 to 7,000 Nepalese girls and women trafficked to India’s commercial sex industry every year.Data on HIV prevalence among survivors of sex trafficking and roles of trafficking-related exposures in HIV infection have been limited but

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We talk with media critic Norman Solomon and hear excerpts from the powerfuldocumentary, "War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death." Narrated by actor Sean Penn, this new film is being shown by peaceactivists across the country to help stop the war in Iraq.Film producers at the Media Education Foundation have adapted Solomon's book "War Made Easy" into a documentary.

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Need help paying your power bill, throw a party and invite a few thousand friends. No, we don’t recommend hitting your guests up for a donation but if 2 MIT grad students have their way, large venue events such as concerts and sporting matches may one day power their attractions with the aid of “Crowd Farming.”Envisioned by James Graham and Thaddeus Jusczyk, both students at MIT’s School of

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Mourning the death of her daughter, wounded and living by charity in neighboring Syria, 46 year old Iraqi refugee Iman Abdul-Rahim asks America to help refugees like herself and her family in what Refugees International calls the world's fastest growing displacement crisis"Since 9/11, the U.S. Congress has appropriated $610 billion dollars in war-related money. With inflation figured in, that's

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Wander through New Orleans' historic French Quarter today and you might believe the revival of the city after Hurricane Katrina's destruction is complete. Restaurants, shops, hotels and clubs are up and running. Almost miraculously, it seems all is back to normal.But no miracle has been performed here. Walk outside the French Quarter and you will see an American city and its people largely

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"I don't care if they [the private media] call me names… As Don Quixote said, 'If the dogs are barking, it is because we are working.'" Hugo Chavez President: VenezuelaA new feature film, The War on Democracy by Australian journalist John Pilger, currently showing in the UK, but noticably not in the US takes issue with American foreign policy over the past 5 decades since the end of the WW

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"Snarewear" jewelry, successfully changing the lives and fortunes of poachers in Zambia ensuring the survival of species threatened with extinction.You may not see them in midtown Manhattan boutiques yet, but the latest rage in certain rural villages in Zambia is a line of necklaces, bracelets and other jewelry made from a one-of-a-kind material: wire snares once used to illegally catch wildlife.

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As the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq enters its fifth year, a group of veterans load onto school buses in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and head south. They are off to talk with soldiers, not about fighting war but about stopping war. So what happens when soldiers talk to soldiers about the Iraq War?On this edition, Making Contact's Sarah Olson brings us along for the ride. We meet the

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"In August 1996, Sutton's bulldozers, backed by military police firing weapons, rolled across the goldfield, smashing down worker housing, crushing their mining equipment. ... About 50 miners were still in their mine shafts, buried alive." BBC Correspondent Greg Palast - Bush Family Fortunes.On the fourth anniversary of the President's visit to Africa we thought it would be appropriate to take

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In May 2007, the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum opened “Design for the Other 90%,” an exhibition in the Arthur Ross Terrace and Garden that highlights the growing trend among designers to develop solutions that address basic needs for the vast majority of the world’s population not traditionally serviced by professional designers. The exhibition features more than 30 works

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A new report by a Southeastern Louisiana University management professor and issued by the IBM-based Center for the Business of Government examines how blogging is becoming an increasingly common method for elected officials and public agencies to communicate with constituencies. The report chronicles blogging activities at all levels of government, including members of Congress, governors,

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Women in the reproductive justice movement seek the basic human right to control their bodies. This includes a woman¹s right to terminate her pregnancy, and the rights to have a child, and to parent that child. On this edition from our Women's Desk, we hear from three women advocating for comprehensive reproductive health.The issues they say need to be prioritized include: sex education, HIV and

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This Wednesday Babson College will launch its STEP Project (Successful Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practices) in Asia and the Pacific Rim. A three-day research working session for academics, the summit brings professors together from select universities throughout Asia.More than twenty academic researcher representatives from eleven academic institutions in eight countries will gather at

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Last June we described the progress of Three Gorges Dam in Dragon and sword, now the dragon has begun to stir and with some unexpected results.The Yangtze River is the third largest river in the world, stretching more than 3,900 miles across China before reaching its mouth near Shanghai. Historically, the river has been prone to massive flooding, overflowing its banks about once every ten years.

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Immigrants, Labor Rights and the Human Cost of Rebuilding an American City - Part 3According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are more than 40 million people in the U.S. without health insurance. Those mostly affected: people with low income and people of color. Now, imagine you're both and from another country. You've come to help rebuild New Orleans and you find

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Immigrants, Labor Rights and the Human Cost of Rebuilding an American City - Part 2New Orleans is the largest construction site in the United States. Countless houses, businesses and public facilities are being rebuilt by an immigrant and migrant workforce that is mostly new to the area. Some were invited as part of the U.S. "Guest Worker" program. Some were already here in this country, and

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Immigrants, labor rights and the human cost of rebuilding an American city - part 1Since the floodwaters receded, New Orleans has been submerged in a sea of reconstruction issues, and a displaced population with still has no way to return.Yet, a new population has taken root: an immigrant labor force. Some of them were already in this country, or were invited by the U.S. government, and some have

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Safety tips for this summer's enjoyment and don't forget the The Great American Campout coming up June 23rd.Ah, summer! Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie—bugs, heat, accidents. Follow these tips to keep your family healthy this summer.Play it safe. Whether it’s hiking, bicycling, inline skating or soccer, everyone loves to get out and play, but that often means an increase in injuries.“We see more

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Young people today are embracing a wide range of terms to describe theirsexuality: straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, two-spirit,questioning pansexual, down low, along with reclaiming formerly pejorativeterms like dyke and queer. They are changing the way that society thinksabout sexual orientation and gender identity.On this edition of Making Contact, in a collaboration with KPFA's

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University of Maryland post traumatic stress disorder expert Glenn Schiraldi spent four years traveling the U.S. to talk with World War II combat veterans whose lives have been characterized by resilience. In this Q&A, Schiraldi describes his experience and what the veterans can teach us about resilience in the face of trauma and loss.Schiraldi interviewed Tom Fields, second from leftWhat gave

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Women are gaining influence as leaders throughout the world, fighting for peace, justice, the environment and civil society.In this program we profile three independent journalists, unbought and unbossed. Women journalist heroines!This Women's Desk program is a special collaboration with the Women Rising Radio Project, Lynn Feinerman and Crown Sephira Productions.Featuring::Giuliana Sgrena,

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So you have signed up for the National Wildlife Federation's annual “Great American Backyard Campout on June 23rd. The kids are planning their to do list and you're in charge of everything else. Here are a few tips then to get you started.No backyard camp is complete without a campfire feast. Sitting around flickering embers trading ghost stories, listening to night critters and rediscovering

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A team of American and Ugandan researchers worked with local farmers to test low-cost soil management alternatives in eastern Uganda. While each alternative soil treatment increased crop output, findings suggest that the best treatment plan varies from farmer to farmer as it is dependent on other factors.Scientists from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the National Agricultural Research

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An encore edition originally broadcast November 30, 2005With the war in Iraq showing no sign of cooling down and recent indications of increasing threats from terrorists both foreign domestic we thought this would be an appropriate moment to rebroadcast this eye opening look at the renewed "surge" in military recruitment efforts.The United States military has recently been pouring millions of tax

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They are mothers, migrants and caregivers to our children and our elders. Domestic workers are the backbone of many American families, their own families and their communities.On this edition, through their own words, we pay tribute to the many working women of color who are struggling for acceptance, recognition and their rights.Immigration to many countries starts with the domestic caregivers,

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If you are looking for a way to encourage your children eat their fruits and vegetables, search no further than your backyard. A new study by researchers at Saint Louis University recently revealed that involving children in the planting and harvesting of backyard gardens encourages interest in both nature and nutrition. Preschool children in rural areas eat more fruits and vegetables when the

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High gas prices putting a crimp in your summer vacation plans? Head out the back door to experience a night with Mother Nature. You don't need to go to Yosemite to experience the great outdoors and the National Wildlife Federation can help. So put down the remote and mouse, grab the family, friends and neighbors and enjoy a noctural backyard adventure.Sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation

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Immigration reform is the hot button issue in the U.S. Talk to your colleagues, friends or family, about it, and you're certain to spark a debate about what should be done with the 12 million undocumented people working and living in this country. links to Chicago Typewriter article,'Immigration and the Minutemen' In fact, the U.S. Congress remains deadlocked over the issue, each side unable to

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Arctic sea ice is melting at a significantly faster rate than projected by even the most advanced computer models, concludes a new study, released today. The research, by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Colorado's National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), shows that the Arctic's ice cover is retreating more rapidly than estimated by any of

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Hydrogen technology may be years from realization but in Europe, Japan and deep in a mine shaft in Ontario it already has enthusiastic proponents who can attest to this clean fuel alternative’s success.Because indoor or underground locations prohibit the use of standard combustion energy sources such as diesel, to get the job done, business and emergency applications have turned to battery energy

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Ms. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first black, woman president of Liberia and often referred to as “The Iron Lady”, is launching a global campaign to raise funds in hopes of repairing her country’s debt-ridden economy.Recently Johnson accepted an invitation to visit Canada where she met with Prime Minister Stephen Harper. During her 2-day visit, Johnson sought Harper’s support for debt waiver ahead

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Along the East Bank of the Mississippi River, just outside of New Orleans in Saint Bernard Parish lies the community of Versailles. This is home to a largely unknown, but deeply-rooted, Vietnamese-American community. After Katrina, the area was virtually washed out. Now, nearly two years later, it's a community on the mend.On this edition, correspondent Ngoc Nguyen takes us to Versailles. As the

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There is still a lot of swim in Winter, though she may not know it yet, and if the staff of the Clearwater Marine Aquarium in Florida has anything to say about it, the tiny dolphin that lost her tail will soon be swimming with the best of them.Winter, a bottlenose dolphin, that became entangled in a crabber’s buoy line when just two months old was rescued near Cape Canaveral in December 2005.

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Past civilizations have fallen when they wore out their supply of soil, and in his new book "Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations,"University of Washington scientist David R. Montgomery says the same thing appears to be happening again -- with potentially far more serious consequences.Throughout history civilizations expanded as they sought new soil to feed their populations, then ultimately fell

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Taxes are something we all have to deal with, whether we like it or not. They fund basic infrastructure and much needed social programs. The tax cuts of the Bush administration were supposed to create more jobs and redistribute the wealth for average Americans, but have they?To find out, we talk with a single mom and a tax fairness advocate to debunk some myths about how wealth is created and

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In 1987, at the age of 5, Ajak fled his village in Southern Sudan joining 20,000 other boys in a journey across the country that would be plagued with imprisonment, murder and starvation...Ultimately ending up at a refugee camp in Northern Kenya, these boys (now adults, and many living in the United States) came to be called "The Lost Boys." Ajak's story and the story of many others are the

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A Florida State University anthropologist has new evidence that ancient farmers in Mexico were cultivating an early form of maize, the forerunner of modern corn, about 7,300 years ago - 1,200 years earlier than scholars previously thought.Professor Mary Pohl conducted an analysis of sediments in the Gulf Coast of Tabasco, Mexico, and concluded that people were planting crops in the "New World" of

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Angela Davis, activist, organizer and philosopher once associated with the Black Panther Party as well as the Communist Party of the United States of America is still an activist, she now works for racial and gender equality and for prison abolition.Born: January 26, 1944, Birmingham, Alabama, Davis received a B.A. from Brandeis University in 1965. She later studied as a doctoral candidate at the

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Many Americans assume that women in the U.S. military are stationed far from the fighting. While it's true they can't train for frontline combat positions, the changing nature of the Iraq war has placed many women at the center of the conflict. Yet the women serving and dying for the U.S. have received very little attention. Who are they, why did they join and what are their experiences and

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Global Water Issues and Solutions (hour-long radio special, rebroadcast for Water Week March 23,07)Water... it's the source of all life. 70 percent of the planet is covered in it, and more than half of your body is made up of it. We use water everyday to refresh, revive, to subsist... yet, water resources are growing increasingly scarce around the world and access to potable water isalarmingly

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A new type of environmentally friendly plastic that degrades in seawater may make it safe and practical to toss plastic waste overboard, freeing valuable storage space for military, merchant and cruise ships generating large volumes of plastic waste that must be stored onboard until they reach port.Large volumes of plastic waste generated aboard military, merchant and cruise ships must be stored

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A new global warming study predicts that many current climate zones will vanish entirely by the year 2100, replaced by climates unknown in today's world.Global climate models for the next century forecast the complete disappearance of several existing climates currently found in tropical highlands and regions near the poles, while large swaths of the tropics and subtropics may develop new

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It's poisoning our waters, our fish, our bodies and it isn't going away any time soon. Each year tons of mercury gets into our streams, bays and oceans. How does it get there, what does it do to us and how can we protect ourselves?On this edition, we go to the San Francisco Bay. Joined by a public health analyst, we'll talk to local fisherman, new moms, restaurant-goers and the E.P.A. about

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Beginning this Sunday, The Discovery Channel in partnership with The Nature Conservancy presents an 11 part series entitled Planet Earth The premiere episode, "Pole to Pole," which airs Sunday, March 25, at 8 p.m. ET/PT provides`an overview to the series beginning with an examination of how life everywhere is ultimately connected and dependent on all other life. It is the producer's unique

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A life sized blue on your desk top is the latest initiative designed to raise awareness about the risk to whales from on-going whaling by countries like Japan, Norway and Iceland. The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, has announced the runaway success of its latest awareness-raising initiative; a life-sized blue whale on the web. The banner, as part of WDCS’s Stop Bloody Whaling campaign,

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Tuesday the Ecology Center released its consumer guide to toxic chemicals in cars at www.healthycar.org. Over 200 of the most popular 2006- and 2007-model vehicles in the U.S. were tested for chemicals that off-gas or emit gas such as the steering wheel, dashboard, armrests and seats. These chemicals contribute to the "new car smell" we all relish and may, at the same time, pose a variety of

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Photo courtesy of peacecorpsonline.orgHere's your chance to meet other global-warming activists in your own community.The website Step It Up! 2007 is promoting a "national day of climate action" on April 14, 2007. Great idea, and a desperately needed action. Already 920 events are planned in 50 states. The Step It Up 2007 website has an interactive map that allows you to locate the event closest

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Africa lost nine per cent of its trees between 1990 and 2005, according to a UN survey of the world's forests.This represents 0ne half of the earth's forest loss, this despite the fact that the continent accounts for just 16 per cent of the earth's forests.In a news release this week (13 March) by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, it was reported that the highest losses occurred in

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Worldwide, more than one billion people lack access to an improved water source, such as a rainwater collection or wells. Two billion still need access to basic sanitation facilities.By 2015, the international community, working through United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals adopted in September, hopes to reduce by half the number of people without safe drinking water and basic

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The Fourth Anniversary of the Iraq War is upon us, and more than eight thousand members of the U.S. military are officially unaccounted for. Many other soldiers are publicly opposing the war and refusing to deploy. Lieutenant Ehren Watada is among them. He's the first Army officer to be tried for refusing to deploy to Iraq.On this edition, Aaron Glantz sheds light on the events and issues

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This project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison may have brought mankind one step closer to the reality of nuclear fusion.We have to admit,for us, this is a bit of a Giger counter.A research team, headed by Professor David Anderson and research assistant John Canik, recently proved that the Helically Symmetric eXperiment (HSX), an odd-looking magnetic plasma chamber called a stellarator, can

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Women are gaining influence as leaders throughout the world fighting for peace, justice, the environment and civil society.In this program, we visit with three eloquent members of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers.The Council is a global alliance of elder women healers who represent more than 900 years of collective wisdom and traditions. The women come together to

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Later than the latest homework assignment, more inadequate than the most half-hearted school project, the US’s upcoming climate change report is expected to disappoint climate scientists around the world.The report, required by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, was due to the UN no later than January 1, 2006. Yes, 2006. Nonetheless, it is currently still under review by

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"Earl Grey, hot", how many times have we heard that now famous command uttered by Captian Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise as a cup of the steaming brew materialized out of thin air. God I wish I had one of those, you said.Hod Lipson (not quite "hot 'Lipton' nor 'Earl Grey'", but uncanny all the same) Cornell assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, thinks a little

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In Jackson, Mississippi, a red state in the heart of the bible belt, the battle over abortion was kicked into high gear when an eight day anti-abortion demonstration ensued in the state's capital this past summer. On one side: activists fighting to save the last abortion clinic in the state. On the other: Operation Save America trying to shut it down.On this edition, Making Contact's Sarah Olson

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University of Delaware researchers announced the development of an inexpensive, non-chlorine-based technology that removes 99.999% of microorganisms, including viruses, from drinking water. The process incorporates highly reactive iron to deliver a chemical “knock-out punch” to a host of notorious pathogens including E-coli and rota virus.The discovery promises to dramatically improve the safety

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For the people of Kenya’s semiarid Samburu region, water is a precious commodity. People and livestock compete with wildlife for water, and in the dry season water sources can easily become contaminated. To address these issues, scientists at Earthwatch’s Samburu Field Center have compiled three years of data on the region’s water and other natural resources into a comprehensive Geographic

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Tomorrow's democratic elections in Senegal may mark the last hoorah for octogenarian, reform president Abdoulaye Wade. Wade, who was elected to the presidency in 2000 by a coalition of all the Senegalese people, including Christians, Animists, and Muslims, leads the socialist opposition party known as the Senegalese Democratic Party or (PDS).The President's final campaign rally was held Friday in

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On Monday, Feb. 26, 2007, The United States will mark the start of the International Polar Year (IPY) with an event hosted by the National Academies and the National Science Foundation. During the ceremony, which will be held in Washington, D.C., a panel of polar scientists will discuss the latest research and present an overview of expeditions to take place during IPY. There will also be remarks

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In 1971, John Young, a San Francisco police officer was killed. Members of the Black Panther party were arrested, charged and then tortured by San Francisco and New Orleans police.Courts eventually dismissed the charges based on the police extracting confessions via torture. Now more than 35 years later, the case has been reopened. On January 23rd, 2007, some of those same men were arrested

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March 2007 marks the 150th anniversary of the Supreme Court's momentous and divisive Dred Scott decision, which denied full American citizenship to African-Americans and gave legal sanction to a racial hierarchy that would undermine the most basic principles of American justice to the present day.According to Richard Re, a senior editor at the Harvard International Review, "Conservative estimates

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When glaciologist Lonnie Thompson returns to Peru’s Qori Kalis glacier early this summer, he expects to find that half of the ice he saw during his visit there last year has vanished.What troubles him the most is his recent observations that suggest that the entire glacier may likely be gone within the next five years, providing possibly the clearest evidence so far of global climate change.The

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Follow your intuition and act? When it comes to genocide, forget it. It doesn’t work, says a University of Oregon psychologist. Any large numbers of reported deaths represent dry statistics that fail to spark emotion or feeling, fails to motivate. Even going from one to two victims, feeling and meaning begin to fade, he said.That case was outlined in brief Feb. 15 in a news briefing prior to a

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Cholera has broken out in several nations in Southern Africa and has been blamed on sewage contamination in Angola.Namibian health authorities confirmed the outbreak yesterday (13 February), saying six people in northern villages along the border with Angola have been taken ill with the disease.According to the World Health Organization, the disease has killed more than 1,200 people in Angola

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ArizonaNativeNet, a Web portal designed to promote nation building in American Indian communities, debuted the first in a series of distance learning modules designed for tribal leaders.As the first free program of its kind in the country, the Web-based project will address a critical and increasing need for information about Indian law and governance. The module, as well as a information about

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Inconsistency and contradiction are no strangers to American policy and politics.One of the true ironies of the American civil rights movement is that while the U.S. was trying to lead the way in developing a framework for international human rights, it was leaving its own citizens behind, refusing to acknowledge the systematic social abandonment of African Americans.On this edition we'll hear

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Plant clinics should replace narrow pesticide control measures to ensure that poor farmers can have healthy plants, argues Eric Boa.Millions of poor people in developing countries rely on their crops for survival. For the governments of these nations, keeping plants healthy should be a high priority — yet most farmers cannot get help when and where they need it.Strategies that address pesticide

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Earthwatch Institute and Starbucks Coffee announced last week the extension of a partnership, which brings Starbucks partners (employees) and customers together on Earthwatch environmental expeditions. The 2007 project will focus on conducting scientific research designed to benefit a cooperative of 2,600 coffee farms in Costa Rica.Partners and customers with a taste for adventure and, presumably

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A new set of maps basing the relative size of countries on socio-economic data rather than land area show gross inequalities in global public health.The innovative maps, published in PLoS Medicine this week (30 January), were developed by the Worldmapper project.The project aims to show each country sized according to public health variables derived from UN data such as population density,

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WASHINGTON DC -- The Administration will be presenting its FY'08 budget recommendations for all federal programs, including DOE, on Monday - February 5.This list provides a summary of those 2008 funding levels being proposed. The budgets by various sustainable energy advocacy organizations represent renewable energy and energy efficiency technology programs in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

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A group of scientists have created a portable refinery that efficiently converts food, paper and plastic trash into electricity.The machine, designed for the U.S. military, would allow soldiers in the field to convert waste into power and could have widespread civilian applications in the future."This is a very promising technology," said Michael Ladisch, the professor of agricultural and

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If Africa is to build a sustainable science and technology infrastructure, it needs more than enthusiastic promises from heads of state.Almost thirty years ago, African leaders meeting in the Nigerian city of Lagos promised "to put science and technology in the service of development by reinforcing the autonomous capacity of our countries in this field". Central to this strategy was a pledge that

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Courageous... committed... and sometimes controversial.On this edition, we celebrate Black History Month through the many voices of African Americans who made history and changed forever American culture, politics, and entertainment and the way we look at our country and ourselves. Featuring:: Martin Luther King Jr.; Angela Davis; Huey Newton, Rosa Parks; Malcolm X; Fannie Lou Hamer; Muhammad Ali

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The African Union Summit, which convenes today in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, will face several challenges not the least of which is likely to be the issue of science and technology development on the continent.In his opening address to the delegates, Calestous Juma, chairperson of the African Union's high-level panel on biotechnology, urged the summit to work toward the establishment of a council on

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Globalizing communications ::The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) held the first conversation from the deep ocean to the edge of space.The world got a little smaller Friday as NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and a marine biologist aboard the deep-sea submersible Alvin dropped a dime and made the

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Farm workers are vital to the production of food in the United States. Without their labor, our lives and our national economy would be very different. Yet American farm workers are often undervalued and marginalized.Working long hard hours, for little pay, the men, women and children who make up this vital workforce are frequently exposed to toxic chemicals, like pesticides and herbicides.On

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Lake Tanganyika,(TANGA (Sail) and NYIKA Pori), meaning FOREST or BUSH) is the world’s longest freshwater lake. Located in Central Africa on the borders of Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia and Burundi, Lake Tanganyika stretches approximately 676 km long and 50 km wide.With a maximum depth of 1470 m and an area of 32 900 km² , Tanganyika is the second deepest and the fifth largest

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My father, Douglas A. Weikle, a career journalist and, until his retirement in the 1990s, Asian desk director of the Lao service, USIA/Voice of America, spent many years covering the post war plight of developing East Asian countries.During his several tours overseas, he came to understand that the inequitable distribution of technology increasingly was to blame for the discontent and

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