Stop trying to Save the Planet!

It is well past the time to STOP trying to save the planet. It is a bunch of talk, it is an emerging industry, it's a lot of bumper stickers... it is NOT working! It is time to change the focus to SAVING THE HUMANS!

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. - As U.S.

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Most commonly used to set the mood or relax after a long day, the paraffin wax candles you light could be polluting the air inside your home.

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South Africa needs at least 40 new coal mines to prevent shortages over the long term, Eskom operations head Brian Dames said in an interview published on Tuesday.

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Capturing the carbon dioxide that wafts up the smokestack after burning coal (or any other fossil fuel) has been identified by everyone from President Obama to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as a critical technology to help keep the lights on while c …

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A seven-year-old girl from Mount Isa in north-west Queensland, whose family is suing a mining company over elevated lead levels in her blood, has now been diagnosed with arthritis.

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The Obama administration's proposed mileage standards that will be announced today may kill more Americans at a faster rate than the Iraq War — his signature issue in the 2008 presidential campaign. Obama's standards will require automakers to meet a 35 miles-per-gallon …

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Chemicals used to fight a huge fire were kept from local streams thanks to one man's quick thinking. A sensitive river ecosystem was protected

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Junk Ride proponents Marcus Eriksen and Anna Cummins care so much about their planet that they're about to bike 2,000 miles to publicize ocean pollution.

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Traveling-Wave Reactor: A new reactor design could make nuclear power safer and cheaper, says John Gilleland. Enriching the uranium for reactor fuel and opening the reactor periodically to refuel it are among the most cumbersome and expensive steps in running a nuclear plant.

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Researchers will fan out across more than 80 developing countries beginning this month to hunt out and assess many of the world's dirtiest industrial waste sites.

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Where are the "Greenies" and the Global Warming Theorists when you need them? I'd venture to say that CO2 produced by Obama is good, but bad when produced by Bush. Any wagers on whether they'll be protests? Doubt it! TheCapitalist

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The recent California wildfires produced particulate matter that lingered in the LA air for days, and may have drastic health effects.

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Four US Olympic cyclists who caused an outcry when they arrived at Beijing airport wearing smog masks have today apologised to Games organisers.

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Polution in China.

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With less than a month to go until the start of the Beijing Olympics, the air in the Chinese capital remains gray and smoggy.

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Last flight of the honeybee? A bee-less world wouldn't just mean the end of honey - Einstein said that if the honeybee became extinct, then so would mankind. Alison Benjamin reports on a very real threat Alison Benjamin The Guardian, Saturday May 31 2008

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Pollution is dulling the scent of flowers and impeding some of the most basic processes of nature, disrupting insect life and imperilling food supplies, a new study suggests.

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Utility executives in Kansas were shocked last fall when a state environmental official rejected two coal-fired power plants because of the millions of tons of carbon-dioxide emissions they could produce.

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,,,,Ontario, tribal leaders were puzzling over a variety of health problems—from asthma to cancer to miscarriages—plaguing their families.

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Steadily progressing climate change is already worrisome; add the notion of tipping points -- moments when the interaction of climate and geophysical systems is suddenly knocked from its traditional balance, producing sea level rises or weather shifts incompatible with reliable a …

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The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday denied California and 16 other states the right to set their own standards for carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles.

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Dustin Hoffman, Larry David and other Hollywood celebrities tout the Toyota Prius as the real thing for the environmentally conscious.

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SHIJIAZHUANG, China — Hundreds of feet below ground, the water supply for this provincial capital of more than two million people is steadily running out. Municipal wells have already drained two-thirds of the local groundwater, and the water table is sinking fast.

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Nearly 600 volunteers stripped before the camera on a melting Swiss glacier high in the Alps on Saturday as part of a publicity campaign to expose the impact of climate change.

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