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Latin America Battling Wildfires, Floods, Droughts

AP | By CESAR GARCIA and IAN JAMES | Posted 01.06.2012 | World

Read More: Climate-Change-Weather, Drought, Video, Latin America, Latin America Flood, Latin America Weather, Flood, Wildfires, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, Wild Weather, Latin America Drought, World News

CHIA, Colombia -- From Chile to Colombia to Mexico, Latin America has been battered recently by wildfires, floods and droughts. For many witnessing t...

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Lynne Peeples

Environment At Risk From Anticipated Farm Bill Cuts

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 12.13.2011 | Green

Read More: Water Quality, Farming, Farm Bill, Drought, Super Committee, 2012 Farm Bill, Ecosystem Services, Budget Cuts, Dust Storm, Flood, Conservation, Erosion, Green News

On October 17, a massive dust storm hit Lubbock, Texas, adding to already significant agricultural and environmental devastation across the South this...

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Drought or Deluge: Different Threats, Same Problems

Peter Hanlon | Posted 12.04.2011 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Texas, Organic Farming, Farming, Drought, Marcellus Shale, Fossil Fuels, Flood, Hurricane Irene, Wildfires, Power Plants, Climate Change, The Northeast, Extreme Weather, Adaptation, Green News
Peter Hanlon

Whether it's the flooded Northeast or drought-stricken Texas, the threats couldn't be more different, but the problems are remarkably the same: Farms are devastated. Power plants shut down. Water supplies are threatened.

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Meatless Monday: Fire and Rain

Ellen Kanner | Posted 11.19.2011 | Green

Read More: Drought, Warren, Dust Bowl, Flood, Kingsbury Farm, Austin, Kingsbury Market Garden, Hurricane Irene, Johnson's Back Yard Garden, Suzanne Slomin, Aaron Locker, Romas, Brenton Johnson, Food, Green News
Ellen Kanner

The two farms are 2,000 miles apart, but both farmers use sustainable practices, and unlike Texas governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry, both believe in climate change.

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GOP Response to the Flood

Jeff Danziger | Posted 10.31.2011 | Politics

Read More: Irene, Gop, Political Cartoon, Flood, Eric Cantor, Ron Paul, Politics News
Jeff Danziger

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Earth Preaching

Reverend Billy | Posted 10.19.2011 | Green

Read More: Nationalism, Social Institutions, Congress, President Obama, Flood, Economy, Earth, Reverend Billy, Media, Earthalujah, Church of Stop Shopping, Culture, Government, Church of Earthalujah, Nation-State, Politics, Religion, Climate Change, Environment, Evo Morales, Tornado, Tea Party, Belief, Global Warming, Green News
Reverend Billy

Believing that the Earth is our god, government, economy and culture -- all wrapped into one big institution -- that is simple common sense!  When we...

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Lynne Peeples

Climate Change Brings Water Woes To U.S. Cities, NRDC Report

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 09.26.2011 | Green

Read More: California, Australia, Climate, Nrdc, Flood, Climate Crisis, Drought, Water, Climate Science, Climate Change, Climate Legislation, Extreme Weather, Global Warming, Sea Level Rise, Green News

You might say that the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) had good timing with their Tuesday release of a new report on water-related impacts of...

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The Weather Becomes the News: An Interview With Earth Policy Institute Founder Lester Brown

Christal Smith | Posted 09.20.2011 | Green

Read More: Drought, Natural Disasters, Tornadoes, Lester Brown, Earth Policy Institute, Flood, Disaster Management, Emergency Preparedness, Green News
Christal Smith

What does climate change have to do with preparing for upcoming disasters? A whole lot, it turns out.

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Severe Flood Hits India

AP | Posted 09.16.2011 | World

Read More: Raid, India Floods, India, Northeast India, Flood, Northeast India Floods, World News

GAUHATI, India -- Heavy monsoon rains have led the mighty Brahmaputra River to overflow its banks and submerge scores of villages in India's remote no...

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After The Flood: Religious Recovery In The Face Of Disaster

Bishop Mark Narum | Posted 08.28.2011 | Religion

Read More: Midwest Floods, Flood Victims, Charity, Disaster Response, 2011 Floods, Suffering, Disaster Recovery, Flood, Christianity, North Dakota Flood, North Dakota Flood 2011, Religion News
Bishop Mark Narum

If the Son of God can Lament, why not us, who are wondering where God is in the midst of all of this. Lament is an act of deep faith. Even as we question, rant or cry, it is God the Father who we are addressing.

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China's Water Woes Revisited: The State of Play in 2011

Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 08.14.2011 | World

Read More: History, Drought, Dams, Flood, Environment, World, Power, Development, China, China Water, World News
Jeffrey Wasserstrom

In my conversations with Ken Pomeranz, one of the world's leading specialists in Chinese history, I have learned a lot about how complex a role issues relating to water have played in China's past and continue to play in China's present.

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Residents Of Manitoba Preparing For Another Possible Dike Breach

Posted 08.10.2011 | Business

Read More: Flooding, Intentional Dike Breach, Manitoba, Second Manitoba Dike Breach, Dike Reopen, Dike Breach, Manitoba Flood, Flood, Manitoba Dike, Business News

CBC -- People who live around the Hoop and Holler Bend in southern Manitoba are scrambling, wondering what to do if the province intentionally breache...

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Treme 14: Renewed, Attacked and Sazerac'd

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 07.15.2011 | Entertainment

Read More: New Orleans, Eric Overmyer, Hbo, Extreme Weather, Flood, Louisiana, Mississippi River Floods, New Orleans Levees, Katrina, New Orleans Musicians, Shawn Colvin, David Simon, Levees, Travel, Television, Food, Sazerac, Entertainment News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

"Thousands of homes sacrificed to save New Orleans" is this week's headline, with a 1927 level Mississippi River placing Louisiana levees in the line ...

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Saki Knafo

Cajun Country Prepares For The Mississippi Flood

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 07.13.2011 | Green

Read More: Mississippi River, Louisiana, Mississippi, Mississippi Flooding, Flood, Morganza Spillway, Atchafalaya, Butte Larose, Morgan City, Mississippi Flood, Morganza, Thoreau, Delahoussaye, Green News

"They say the water is coming," Jim Delahoussaye wrote on his blog early this week. "They have exploded the levees in Missouri to save Cairo from drow...

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New Orleans: Ground Zero in the Cultural War

Brian Ross | Posted 07.05.2011 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Alabama, Birmingham, Emeril Lagasse, George W. Bush, Bureaucracy, CULTURAL WARFARE, Tennessee Williams, Culture, Ideologies, Hurricane Katrina, Ground Zero, Harry Connick Jr., Jazz, Wynton Marsalis, Living, Hurricane, Big Insurance, Louisiana, Politics, American Values, Fema, 9th Ward, Barack Obama, William Faulkner, Democrats, Louis Armstrong, Bryant Gumbel, Federal Government, Birthers, Republicans, Flood, New Orleans-Louisiana, Katrina, Politics News
Brian Ross

The Founding Fathers defined the boundaries of liberty and freedom. New Orleans lives them. The birthplace of jazz. The true birthplace of Rock-and-Ro...

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Life in the Water

Reverend Billy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Mudslides, Apocalypse, Natural Disasters, Kurt Vonnegut, Pakistan, Flood, Life on Earth, Tsunamis, Media, Peace, Corporate Accountability, Cnn, Corporations, Water, Industry, Environment, Blizzards, Corporate Greenwashing, Green News
Reverend Billy

A short clip of Rev's sermon from last Sunday's Earthalujah service. Join us this week live in NYC and online at Revbilly.com. We have a schizophren...

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Too Much Content: A World of Exponential Information Growth

Brett King | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

Read More: Google, Linkedin, Prosumer, Apple, Flood, Digital Intuition, Twitter, Content, Facebook, Exabytes, Technology News
Brett King

The level and rate of change that we are experiencing today is likely to accelerate over the next 50-100 years. How do we value 'things' when knowledge is pervasive?

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Feds Lack Emergency Plans For Flooding

AP | CHUCK BARTELS | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Arkansas Flood Deaths, Floods, Forest Service, Arkansas Flooding, Tom Vilsack, Flood, Flooding, Arkansas Flooding Deaths, Weather, Forest Service Flood, Arkansas Flood, Forest Service Flood Plan, Green News

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The U.S. Forest Service acknowledges in a new report that the agency had no warning plan in place the night 20 people died i...

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$11-Million Monument to Benazir Bhutto: APPROVED

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Flood, Pakistan, Representative Government, Angelina Jolie, Statue, Zardari, President, Taxpayer, Pakistani Flood, Government, Donation, Wealth, Benazir Bhutto, Monument, Disaster, Assassination, Bhutto, Per Capita, Petition, Pakistani, World News
Shirin Sadeghi

As flood waters ravage Pakistan's land and 20 million of its people, , yet another devastating blow has hit Pakistan: the government approved an $11-million statue of Benazir Bhutto. Yes, this is Pakistani taxpayer money.

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We Need to Remember Our Multiplication Tables

Carl Pope | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Flooding, Timber Mafia, Extreme Weather, Indus, Climate Change, Flood, Pakistan, Green News
Carl Pope

We should worry, tremendously, about the impact of a disrupted climate and more extreme rainfall events. But we should worry just as much about the need to restore the natural biological dampers to the system.

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Why the Media Wants Americans to Donate to Haiti But Not Pakistan

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Islam, US Military, Imran Khan, Media Coverage, Flooding, Slaves, Hispanola, Slavery, Homeless, Islamic Charity, Flood Relief, Pakistani, Fear, Caribbean, American Public, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Flood, Terrorist, Senator Kerry, Earthquake, Imran Khan Flood Relief Fund, Civilian, Mainstream Media, Islamic Charities, Fundamentalist, Haiti, Pakistani Taliban, Donor, Geostrategic, Donations, Muslim, Culture of Fear, Cuba, Displaced, World News
Shirin Sadeghi

The American public does not know that Haiti is a nation that has long been been a thorn in the side of the American government while Pakistan is a nation which the U.S. already has great influence on.

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Pakistan Flood: What's The Security Risk?

New York Review Of Books | Ahmed Rashid | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: New York Review of Books, Pakistan Security, Flood, Pakistan, Ny Review, Middle East, Security Risk, Security, Pakistan Flood, Nyr, Books News

Though it has received only moderate attention in the western press, the torrential flooding of large swaths of Pakistan since late July may be the mo...

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Pakistan Flood Victims Deserve Better

Doug Sarro | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Idp, Pakistan, Pakistan Flood, Afghanistan, Isi, Flood, Asif Ali Zardari, Afpak, Fata, Refugees, World News
Doug Sarro

Pakistan is a moral test case for the world -- do we believe that all people forced out of their homes because of conflict or natural disaster have the same rights no matter where they are from, or don't we?

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America's Broken Response to Pakistan

Josh Mull | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Cost of War, Pkflood, Longest War, Coin, Broken, Flood, Terrorism, Pakistan, Foreign Policy, Humanitarian Response, National Security, Rethink Afghanistan, Disaster, Afghanistan, Hilary Bok, Security, Galrahn, Politics News
Josh Mull

The so-called battle for hearts and minds in Pakistan is the war that America will lose because of our occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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The F Word: Time to Declare Global War on Flooding

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Robert Naiman, Floods, Gwynne Dyer, F Word, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Flood, Bombs, War, Katrina, Flooding, Grit Tv, Drones, Climate Change, The F Word, Laura Flanders, Grittv, Climate Bill, Global Warming, Senate, Politics News
Laura Flanders

The flooding in Pakistan has displaced 2 million people, killed at least 1600 and affected 14 million. It should be affecting all of us. A disaster o...

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