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Environment
French Nuclear Facility to Shut Down After Uranium Leak
Jul
14
LYON, France — French authorities ordered Friday the temporary closure of a nuclear treatment plant in a popular tourist region of southern France after a uranium leak polluted the local water supply.0712 01 1 2
Inside Bruce Crower’s Six-Stroke Engine
Jul
02
Bruce Crower has lived, breathed and built hot engines his whole life. Now he’s working on a cool one—one that harnesses normally-wasted heat energy by creating steam inside the combustion chamber, and using it to boost the engine’s power output and also to control its temperature.
“I’ve been trying to think how to capture radiator losses for over 30 years,” explains the veteran camshaft grinder and race engine builder. “One morning about 18 months ago I woke up, like from a dream, and I knew immediately that I had the answer.”
GM Foods: The U.S. Fights Mandatory Labeling in An Untested Human Experiment
Jul
01
(NaturalNews) The U.S. and several other nations recently attended a Codex meeting in Calgary, Canada to discuss food labeling. The Codex Alimentarius Commission implements the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Program, the purpose of which is to protect the health of consumers and to ensure fair practices in the food trade. The Codex Alimentarius (Latin, meaning Food Law or Code) is a collection of internationally adopted food standards presented in a uniform manner. One of the principle reasons for this forum was to discuss the necessity, or lack of necessity as the U.S.
Court slashed Exxon Valdez damages to $507.5 million
Jun
25
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court dashed the hopes of more than 32,000 fishermen and Alaska Natives who have been waiting for nearly 20 years to hear whether Exxon Mobil Corp. will have to pay billions in punitive damages for its role in the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.
Exposed: the great GM crops myth
Apr
20
Major new study shows that modified soya produces 10 per cent less food than its conventional equivalent
Death of the Bees: GMO Crops and the Decline of Bee Colonies in North America
Mar
27
‘Commercial beehives pollinate over a third of [North}America’s crops and that web of nourishment encompasses everything from fruits like peaches, apples, cherries, strawberries and more, to nuts like California almonds, 90 percent of which are helped along by the honeybees. Without this pollination, you could kiss those crops goodbye, to say nothing of the honey bees produce or the flowers they also fertilize’.1
GM Crops 'failing to keep promises'
Feb
19
Genetically-modified crops are not delivering on the promised benefits of increased yields or reduced pesticides, Friends of the Earth has claimed ahead of a report from the industry on the growth of GM.
The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA) is expected to detail the rise in GM crops and the contribution they are making to tackling world hunger and poverty.
Toxic Terror in San Francisco
Feb
02
SAN FRANCISCO (FinalCall.com) - A cross section of Black, Latino, Asian-Pacific Islander and progressive Whites are determined to win a battle with city and congressional leaders over what activists call one of the most horrific cases of environmental racism and political double dealing in the country.
They call it pebble Peb-bull
Dec
02
Pebble, the Bull about it. A peom by Andrew Straley 20 years resident of Bristol Bay, inspired by the potential devistation to the village of New Suyahok.
Alaskan Dr. Nick Begich to speak on HAARP, Weather Modification
Sep
13
The Alaskan independent scientific & environmental researcher, Dr Nick Begich, is to attend the September conference in Rotorua where he will give two presentations concerning the controversial HAARP Star Wars technology, and manipulation of the human mind through new applied technologies.
HAARP, a joint US Navy and Airforce project based in Alaska, has developed ground-based Star Wars weapon technology involving the manipulation of the ionosphere, Earths electrically-charged protective sphere, using super-powerful radio-wave beaming technology from the worlds largest radio-frequency-radiation transmitter.
It has the capability to alter climate by destabilizing the Earths magnetic field, and to set off earthquakes and volcanoes remotely using electromagnetic waves. However the US military continues to deny that they control such technology,
EPA gives big oil a permit to triple the amount of toxics dumped into Cook Inlet
Aug
03
EPA’s new permit will nearly triple the amount of toxic dumping in Cook Inlet compared to the previous permit, with industry authorized to discharge approximately 100,000 gallons of oil and over 835,000 pounds of toxic metals each year.
Appeals Court Cuts $5B Exxon Award in Half
Dec
23
A federal appeals court on Friday cut in half a $5 billion jury award for punitive damages against Exxon Mobil Corp. in the 1989 Valdez oil spill that smeared black goo across roughly 1,500 miles of Alaskan coastline...
It's the third time the appeals court ordered the Anchorage court to reduce the $5 billion award, the nation's largest at the time, saying it was unconstitutionally excessive in light of U.S. Supreme Court precedent.
