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United States: Marmots thriving amid climate change for now
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 22nd, 2010
LA Times: Every year, scientists fan out across Colorado's Upper East River Valley to count the yellow-bellied marmots that make their home in rocky meadows bordered by aspen, fir and spruce trees. Over the last decade, the work has gotten more tiring. Now they know why -- the population of squirrel-like critters has vastly expanded as a result of environmental changes brought on by global warming, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Nature. It's a rare example of ...
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Speculating on food can starve the world’s poorest
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 22nd, 2010
Guardian: In defending cocoa futures trading, Seth Freedman is an apologist for big bankers, the "mammon worshipping culture" he feigns to despise. He not only gets his facts wrong, he attacks the World Development Movement (WDM) and a wider social movement who are on the right side of social justice. The WDM warriors – slings, arrows and all – have it right, and he's got it wrong. Freedman naively takes Goldman Sachs's riposte to our research at face value. Any journalist worth their salt ...
Pipeline repaired as China works to contain spill
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 22nd, 2010
Associated Press: China National Petroleum Corp. said Thursday a vital pipeline has resumed operations after an explosion caused the country's largest reported oil spill. Cleanup efforts -- marred by the drowning death of a worker, his body coated in crude -- continued over 165 square mile (430 square kilometer) stretch of water blanketed in thick, dark oil Thursday, after an official warned the spill posed a severe threat to sea life and water quality. The slick emptied beaches as its size doubled ...