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The word “farming” conjures up an image of a farmer toiling away on a green landscape to feed the world. However, carbon farming brings about a fresh change to our general perceptions. This kind of farming will produce soil that can store carbon...
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Max Blumental reports on The Daily Beast that Sarah Palin may have quit her job today because she was trying to avert a major, yet-to-be-disclosed corruption scandal....
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The crown of the famed New York Statue of Liberty will reopen tomorrow for the first time since September 11th, 2001, and what better day than the celebration of...
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American nuns could be said to have their habits in a twist in the face of two investigations by the Vatican into whether they have come to espouse lifestyles and views...
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The Jackson family has decided to hold a memorial for their late son at Los Angeles’ Staple Center. Jackson died last week from what was probably a strong...
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Alaska Governor and former Republican 2008 vice-president nominee Sarah Palin has decided to resign from her governorship.
The resignation will come at the end of the...
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A Philadelphia man’s accused of using Tarot cards and mysticism to lure three teenage girls into having sex with him.
“He was reading my cards and told me...
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Brad Pitt surely deserves to be there in the green celebs’ list. Well, you may or may not agree to it. Still his foundation, Make It Right, makes him proud in...
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While the onslaught of miserable June weather played havoc with people’s plans and psyches, it has also provided a quiet benefit to many city neighborhoods. Fatal and...
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Amidst the fireworks, the beer and the cookouts associated with the celebration of the 4th of July Independence holiday, it is common to forget why the founders of the...
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Despite about two trillion dollars pumped into banks and the general economy from the government, the United States’ economy continues to shed jobs.
The U.S....
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Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco, has an emergency button under his desk that was installed 30 years ago after former City Supervisor Dan White entered City...
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The King of Pop still had it.
In defiance of all the critics who called him Wacko Jacko and a has-been, Michael Jackson still put on a show that eluded most artists....
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California, one of the world’s largest economies, has reached the brink. It is a sad day for America for California always promised the “Golden Road”...
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President Obama promised a break from the old Washington ways of permanent campaigning and a president unaccountable to the people. Put aside the lack of...
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With respect to Gov. Mark Sanford, it’s probably always a mistake for a Puritan to visit Latin America. A handsome cardiologist’s son, he married money,...
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It has long been known that Michael Jackson had an inconsiderate stage-dad. Joe Jackson reportedly pushed his son excessively as a young star.
Jackson has long stated...
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For the first time since 1968, a party will command a filibuster proof majority in the Senate.
After several months of recounts and court battles, Democratic...
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Michael Jackson was so distraught over persistent insomnia in recent months that he pleaded for a powerful sedative despite warnings it could be harmful, says a...
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Dreaming of a house that is remarkably awesome? Designed by Touzet studio, the amazing North Bay Road Residence located in Miami Beach, Florida is one such example. The...
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As Iran stumbles deeper into political crisis, with scores of protestors murdered and likely more deaths coming after Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami declared them...
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Gov. Jennifer Granholm has recommended scrapping Michigan’s wetland protection law and transferring wetland regulation in the state to the federal government.
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AP, Detroit
A Michigan developer has reached a settlement with regulators in a decades-long dispute over wetlands and development in a case that landed at the U.S. Supreme Court,...
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AP, Detroit
An agreement has been reached in a dispute over wetlands and development in a Michigan case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Man’s need for more and more land for agricultural cultivation and residential settlements is a major cause behind the destruction of vast areas of wetlands...
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The Bush administration didn’t pursue hundreds of potential water pollution cases after a 2006 Supreme Court decision that restricted the Environmental Protection...
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AP, Washington
The Bush administration announced requirements Monday that would encourage developers to compensate for the destruction of wetlands or streams by paying for the...
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More than 99.9 per cent of Britain’s fenlands have been alarmingly devastated. Thanks to the farmers, who are letting the onions, potatoes and cereals eat away...
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In Bangladesh, fish population is declining fast as rivers and wetlands are vanishing. Criss-crossed by around 230 rivers, including three major rivers the Padma,...
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Unlike for a crocodile you are not their immediate prey but if provoked the predator in them erupts. Difficult to identify, they take on the color of the brackish murky...
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Rats have invaded China eating their way across fragile wetlands on the Tibetan plateau. To repel this invasion, China will target a 7.5 billion yuan ($934 million)...
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Can you imagine the consequences of China’s biggest river system drying up? Millions will be displaced, mostly who are dependent on the rivers for livelihood....
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A new city on the bleak wetlands of Dongton. Does it sound impossible? True, bleak wetlands seem an unlikely place for a neo-industrial revolution.
‘But, if the...
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The Louisiana’s marshes are destroying. Along with the worries, people have been blaming oil companies, levees and the burrowing nutria for the phenomenon. But,...
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Invasive species, habitat loss and sediments laden with toxic chemicals put the Great Lakes under environmental threats. Though already, some of the most egregious...
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Can we call this a recuperation of the cumulative tortures, we threw to the Nature? Stresses from polluted rivers to invasive species is threatening to trigger an...
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The entry of the deadly avian influenza virus through migratory birds needs immediate preventive steps. And the Philippines have geared up with taking actions. They...
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Scientists want to turn carrots, celery, broccoli and mushrooms farm into a certified wetland bank. It will be the only wetland bank of its kind in the nation. The...
made popular Oct 29 2005
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In this July 10, 2007 photo provided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife, U.S. Fish and Wildlife agent Brian Vose surveys an illegal wetlands drainage ditch on a federal easement at Alvin Peterson’s farm in Lawton, N.D. Federal authorities, after dealing for...
