TOP 100 CAMPING SITES
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| Human rights team visits relief camps in Nandigram (Calcutta News) Nandigram/A two-member team of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Friday visited the relief camps in Nandigram to interact with those affected by the last week's violence in the East Midnapore district. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Chinese tourists discover backpacking (Adelaide Now) ARMED with backpacks, sleeping bags, budget travel guides, and hunger for a wider world long beyond their reach, backpackers from China are likely to be heading to a youth hostel near you. us.rd.yahoo.com |
State of the Science: Beyond the Worst Case Climate Change Scenario Climate change is "unequivocal" and it is 90 percent certain that the "net effect of human activities since 1750 has been one of warming," the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) --a panel of more than 2,500 scientists and other experts--wrote in its first report on the physical science of global warming earlier this year. In its second assessment, the IPCC stated that human-induced warming is having a discernible influence on the planet, from species migration to thawing permafrost. Despite these findings, emissions of the greenhouse gases driving this process continue to rise thanks to increased burning of fossil fuels while cost-effective options for decreasing them have not been adopted, the panel found in its third report. rss.sciam.com |
Q & A with wordsmith Gary Snyder (The Union) Pulitzer prize-winner Gary Snyder participates in an evening of prose and poetry tonight titled Peaks, Fires & Spirits of Love & Loss, a benefit for the Yuba Watershed Institute. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Sciam Observations Blog: CLEAN COAL TURNS TO CINDERS For those journalists who have been monitoring “clean coal” technology over the last few years, it was no surprise to hear that the U.S. rss.sciam.com |