Southern Baptists Back a Shift on Climate Change
By NEELA BANERJEE
Published: March 10, 2008
Signaling a significant departure from the Southern Baptist Convention’s official stance on global warming, 44 Southern Baptist leaders have decided to back a declaration calling for more action on climate change, saying its previous position on the issue was “too timid.”
The largest denomination [...]
AP probe finds drugs in
drinking water
By JEFF DONN, MARTHA MENDOZA and JUSTIN PRITCHARD, Associated Press Writers 56 minutes ago
A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.
To be sure, the [...]
More Americans turning to Web for news
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nearly 70 percent of Americans believe traditional journalism is out of touch, and nearly half are turning to the Internet to get their news, according to a new survey.
While most [...]
Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold [...]
There is a great amount of interest in this year’s presidential
elections, as everybody seems to recognize that our next president has
to be a lot better than George Bush. The Democrats are riding high with
two groundbreaking candidates are a woman and an African-American and while
the conservative Republicans are in a quandary about their party’s nod
to a quasi-liberal [...]
That Newfangled Light Bulb
Published: February 17, 2008
Across the world, consumers are being urged to stop buying outdated incandescent light bulbs and switch to new spiral fluorescent bulbs, which use about 25 percent of the energy and last 10 times longer. In Britain, there is a Ban the Bulb movement. China is encouraging the change. And [...]
PHOENIX — Changes in climate and strong demand for Colorado River water could drain Lake Mead by 2021, triggering severe water shortages across the Southwest, scientists said Tuesday in an unusually bleak water-supply outlook.
Researchers working at San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography said the West’s largest storage reservoir faces increasing threats from a combination of [...]
By ADAM NOSSITER
Published: February 1, 2008
NEW ORLEANS — There is disappointment but little surprise here at a federal judge’s grudgingly absolving the Army Corps of Engineers of liability in the flooding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Although the decision, issued Wednesday, was sharply critical of the corps, the judge’s finding has if anything only hardened [...]
The saddest thing about all of this is that some attorney is trying to profit off the aftermath of a natural dicaster! I wonder just how many times residents of New Orleans asked for levee inspection or voted in favor of levee contruction and renewal? The money being sought is our TAX dollars as the [...]
