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		<title>Shale Gas a Bridge to More Global Warming</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shale Gas Worse Than Coal Study Finds By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jan 24, 2012 (IPS) Hundreds of thousands of shale gas wells are being &#8220;fracked&#8221; in the United States and Canada, allowing large amounts of methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas, to escape into the atmosphere, new studies have shown. Shale gas production results [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&amp;blog=466880&amp;post=6183&amp;subd=stephenleahy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Time Left to Adapt to Melting Glaciers &#8212; Peak Water Has Already Come and Gone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without sharp reductions in the use of fossil fuels, the impacts of climate change could come faster and beyond what humanity can adapt to &#8212; Lonnie Thompson, glaciologist By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Dec 27, 2011 (Tierramérica) The water supplied by the glaciers of the Cordillera Blanca, vital to a huge region of northwest Peru, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&amp;blog=466880&amp;post=5992&amp;subd=stephenleahy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oceans Becoming Hot, Sour and Breathless</title>
		<link>http://stephenleahy.net/2012/01/24/oceans-becoming-hot-sour-and-breathless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oceans home to 80% of all life &#8212; plankton provide 50 percent of the oxygen we breathe By Stephen Leahy DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 3 (IPS) The world’s oceans are becoming hot, sour and breathless – threatening a vital source of food for a billion people mainly in the developing world experts warned today at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&amp;blog=466880&amp;post=5981&amp;subd=stephenleahy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Fracking&#8221; for Shale Gas: The Bridge to Global Warming Disaster</title>
		<link>http://stephenleahy.net/2012/01/23/fracking-for-shale-gas-neither-clean-nor-green-making-global-warming-worse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Switching from coal to gas can increase global warming &#8211; NCAR [UPDATE JAN 20 2012: New study published in journal Climatic Change shows large volumes of methane released during fracking] By Stephen Leahy  DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 5, 2011 (Tierramérica) Hydraulic fracturing or &#8220;fracking&#8221; is being used to tap the last remaining natural gas deposits across large [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&amp;blog=466880&amp;post=6136&amp;subd=stephenleahy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Toxic Pollution Shortens Lives By More Than a Decade</title>
		<link>http://stephenleahy.net/2012/01/19/toxic-pollution-shortens-lives-by-more-than-a-decade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toxins and pollutants are major cause of illness 100 Million affected by 2000 toxic sites By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Nov 14, 2011 (IPS) Toxic pollution affects the health of more than 100 million people, shortening their productive life spans by an astonishing 12.7 years on average. It is a common misperception that disease is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&amp;blog=466880&amp;post=5878&amp;subd=stephenleahy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Unprecedented Move, Harper Government Pulls Canada out Kyoto Protocol</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Harper called Kyoto a &#8220;socialist scheme to suck money out of wealth-producing nations&#8220; Wealth-producing Nations Condemn Canada&#8217;s Withdrawal By STEPHEN LEAHY CAPE TOWN, Dec 14, 2011 (IPS) Barely 24 hours after it signed a new global climate change agreement in Durban, South Africa, Canada became on Monday the first country to formally withdraw from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&amp;blog=466880&amp;post=6100&amp;subd=stephenleahy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EcoMobility Gaining Ground As Cars/Roads Become Too Expensive</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Car Ownership Declines in Europe as Cities&#8217; Focus on Walking, Bikes &#38; Public Transit Cost of Personal Car Ownership Tops $10,000 a year By Stephen Leahy CHANGWON, South Korea, Nov 1, 2011 (Tierramérica) Berlin is a big capital city of a country famed for making excellent automobiles, but it can no longer afford roads and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&amp;blog=466880&amp;post=5826&amp;subd=stephenleahy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Canada&#8217;s Harper Government Guts Environment, Science and Monitoring Programs</title>
		<link>http://stephenleahy.net/2012/01/10/harper-government-guts-environment-science-and-monitoring-programmes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Environment budget slashed while PM Harper&#8217;s office places a gag order on government scientists. (And a $60 billion order for military equipment) By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Nov 9, 2011 (IPS) Canada&#8217;s Stephen Harper government is spending more than 60 billion dollars on new military jets and warships while slashing more than 200 million dollars [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&amp;blog=466880&amp;post=5872&amp;subd=stephenleahy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Quiet Crisis: Lost Foodlands Cover Area Larger Than Canada and China Combined &#8211; Two Billion People Affected</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[12 Million Hectares Lost Every Year to Desertification Dealing with desertification has a long history of failure. By Stephen Leahy CHANGWON, South Korea, Oct 13, 2011 (IPS) Degradation of land is the world&#8217;s quiet crisis, undercutting food production, increasing water scarcity, impoverishing hundreds of millions of people and affecting two billion overall. Nearly 20 million [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&amp;blog=466880&amp;post=5783&amp;subd=stephenleahy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Selling Nature to Save Nature and Ourselves?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humanity faces unprecedented challenge of climate change combined with food, water and energy shortages &#8220;Markets are preconditioned on inequality and will only make matters worse” By Stephen Leahy THE HAGUE, Jul 5, 2011 (IPS) Avoiding the coming catastrophic nexus of climate change, food, water and energy shortages, along with worsening poverty, requires a global technological [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&amp;blog=466880&amp;post=5778&amp;subd=stephenleahy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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