The IPCC, Climate Change, Floods & More – Questions for Gerald Meehl (NCAR)

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Wendell Berry: Poet & Prophet

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Wendell Berry Reads A Poem on Hope

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Wendell Berry Reads: The Contrariness of the Mad Farmer

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Love Your Farmers Market? Bill McKibbenThanks Wendell Berry

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THE AFRICAN-AMERICANS: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. “Trailer”

PBS

Published on Oct 3, 2013

Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. recounts the full trajectory of African-American history in his groundbreaking new six-part series premiering Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 8-9 p.m. ET on PBS and airing six consecutive Tuesdays through November 26, 2013 (check local listings). For more, visit: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-ameri…

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BBC News – Fukushima leaks: radioactive water overflows tank

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24377520
3 October 2013 Last updated at 12:27 ET

Workers have struggled to deal with the huge volumes of contaminated water at the damaged plant

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Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has a new leak of radioactive water after workers overfilled a storage tank, its operator says.

The workers miscalculated the tank’s capacity as it was tilted on unlevel ground, plant operator Tepco said.

It said around 430 litres (100 gallons) of water may have leaked from the tank, and could have flowed into the sea.

The plant has experienced several leaks since being crippled by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.

One of the largest leaks took place in August, when Tepco discovered a leak of at least 300 tonnes of highly radioactive water at a different part of the plant.

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The latest leak was discovered by workers late on Wednesday.

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BBC News – Health of oceans ‘declining fast’

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24369244
3 October 2013 Last updated at 01:19 ET

By Roger Harrabin Environment analyst

Corals are likely to suffer as a result of the changes to our oceans
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The health of the world’s oceans is deteriorating even faster than had previously been thought, a report says.

A review from the International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO), warns that the oceans are facing multiple threats.

They are being heated by climate change, turned slowly less alkaline by absorbing CO2, and suffering from overfishing and pollution.

The report warns that dead zones formed by fertiliser run-off are a problem.

It says conditions are ripe for the sort of mass extinction event that has afflicted the oceans in the past.

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BBC News – Italy boat sinking: Hundreds feared dead off Lampedusa

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24380247
3 October 2013 Last updated at 14:32 ET

The BBC’s Alan Johnston: “More survivors, but dozens of bodies too”

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At least 130 African migrants have died and many more are missing after a boat carrying them to Europe sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa.

A total of 103 bodies have been recovered and more have been found inside the wreck, coast guards say.

Passengers reportedly threw themselves into the sea when a fire broke out on board. More than 150 of the migrants have been rescued.

Most of those on board were from Eritrea and Somalia, said the UN.

The boat was believed to have been carrying up to 500 people at the time and some 200 of them are unaccounted for.

…(read more).

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There is No Tea Party Only a Collection of Billionaires

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Published on Oct 3, 2013

There’s a monster terrorizing Washington & I’ll tell you what we need to do to stop it.

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