Removing carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere to prevent global warming from becoming catastrophic may be a fool’s game amounting to a “moral hazard par … Scientists Warn Negative Emissions Are a ‘Moral Hazard’Read more
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Activists Shut Down Tar Sands Pipelines Crossing US-Canada Border
Last night 10 climate activists, support team members, and videographers spent the night in jail across four US states after five of them shut down … Activists Shut Down Tar Sands Pipelines Crossing US-Canada BorderRead more
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We don’t want the Hollyweb
Hollywood is at it again. Its latest ploy to take over the Web? Use its influence at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to weave … We don’t want the HollywebRead more
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Wikileaks Drops E-Reader Version of Clinton Speeches Alongside New Email Dump
WikiLeaks on Monday dropped its second tranche of the so-called Podesta Emails, laying bare what members of her own inner circle believed were the vulnerabilities … Wikileaks Drops E-Reader Version of Clinton Speeches Alongside New Email DumpRead more
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Yahoo Secretly Scanned Emails of All Users for NSA & FBI
Former employees of the email giant Yahoo say Yahoo secretly scanned the contents of hundreds of millions of email accounts and turned the information over … Yahoo Secretly Scanned Emails of All Users for NSA & FBIRead more
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Thousands of Nurses Continue Strike into Second Month in Minnesota
in Minnesota, thousands of nurses have voted to remain on strike into a second month, as they demand a contract that includes safe staffing ratios … Thousands of Nurses Continue Strike into Second Month in MinnesotaRead more
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Zaytouna-Oliva Women to be ‘deported’
Two journalists from Al Jazeera who were on board Zaytouna-Oliva have been released and have safely reached London and Moscow. The other 11 women of … Zaytouna-Oliva Women to be ‘deported’Read more
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Honduran Police Repress Protests Against Highway Privatization
Honduran police have fired tear gas at 200 people protesting a newly erected highway toll outside of Honduras’ second-largest city, San Pedro Sula. Former president … Honduran Police Repress Protests Against Highway PrivatizationRead more
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Ice cores reveal a slow decline in atmospheric oxygen over the last 800,000 years
Princeton University researchers have compiled 30 years of data to construct the first ice core-based record of atmospheric oxygen concentrations spanning the past 800,000 years, … Ice cores reveal a slow decline in atmospheric oxygen over the last 800,000 yearsRead more
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Mylan Misrepresented Profit Figures of EpiPen to Congress
Mylan, the maker of the life-saving allergy shot EpiPen, is again under fire, this time for reportedly lying to Congress. Last week, Mylan CEO Heather … Mylan Misrepresented Profit Figures of EpiPen to CongressRead more