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Archive for the Month of December, 2005.
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Researchers say EPA skewed study to aid Bush - Researchers who work for the U.S. Congress say the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) skewed its analysis of air pollution legislation to favour President George W. Bush's plan. (3738 views)
Hurricanes, Global Warming and the Right-Wing Distortion Campaign: The Battle Over Public Awareness - ...as long as the public believes there is no scientific consensus, inaction on anthropogenic climate change is guaranteed. (5307 views)
Food crisis feared as fertile land runs out - Maps show 40% of Earth's land is used for agriculture - Growing human 'footprint' a risk to the environment. (3246 views)
Inuit sue US over climate change - The Inuit people of the Arctic have filed a landmark human rights complaint against the US, blaming the world's No 1 carbon polluter for stoking the global warming that is destroying their habitat. (3395 views)
Great Lakes Headed for Catastrophic "Ecological Collapse" - As wetlands disappear and shorelines are degraded, the Great Lakes are losing their ability to cope with environmental stress and ward off a catastrophic breakdown, scientists said Thursday.
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Scientists: Greenland Glaciers Retreating - Two of Greenland's largest glaciers are retreating at an alarming pace, most likely because of climate warming, scientists said Wednesday. The other glacier, Helheim, is retreating at about 7 miles a year — up from 4 miles a year during the same period. (3399 views)
GM crops "a clear and present danger" - Forty-nine activists who destroyed genetically modified crops have been acquitted of criminal charges in a French court. (3320 views)
Green groups sue U.S. to protect polar bears - The groups argue that rising global temperatures endangers polar bears by melting the ice floes on which the giant predators prowl and hunt. (3160 views)
Polar bears drown as ice shelf melts - Scientists have for the first time found evidence that polar bears are drowning because climate change is melting the Arctic ice shelf. (3919 views)
Earth to ELF: Come In, Please - Does the radical environmental group really exist? (3588 views)
Environmental Racism - The Toxic Air in Black America (3850 views)
Review of the year: Climate Change - Mercury rising, stormy weather - our world is taking a battering (3150 views)
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