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Pew Research Center for the People & the Press ; Reporters without borders ; Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) ; Media Research Center (the conservative media watchdog) ; Society of Professional Journalists ; The Media Consortium (network of leading, progressive, independent media outlets in U.S.) ; Media Matters for America
CBC At Issue panel
Is Jon Stewart […]

Research shows “undeniable” warming trends
A comprehensive review of 10 key climate indicators, including sea level, glacier melt and air temperatures, by 300 scientists in 48 countries shows unmistakable signs of global warming, the group says in a report released by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The report does not […]

Natural Resources Defense Council: Transition to Green
Gulf of Mexico oil spill
Question of the Day: What do the oil catastrophe and the Wall Street collapse have in common?
In both cases, a powerful, politically protected industry invented something that could not easily be repaired when it broke….
The American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES)
John Stewart on the […]

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China’s Money and Migrants Pour Into Tibet
Han Chinese workers, investors, merchants, teachers and soldiers are pouring into remote Tibet. After the violence that ravaged this region in 2008, China’s aim is to make Tibet wealthier — and more Chinese.
Chinese leaders see development, along with an […]

The World’s Ongoing Ecological Disasters
(Foreign Policy) While it’s probably still too soon to celebrate, BP appears to finally be getting the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico under control. But many of the world’s greatest environmental catastrophes continue, with no end in sight.
The Deepwater Horizon incident may have been the worst oil spill in […]

Pembina Institute; Arctic & Antarctic
U.S. lawmaker wants halt to TransCanada pipeline
House Energy and Commerce committee chairman Henry Waxman urged the State Department to block TransCanada’s planned Keystone XL pipeline.
“This pipeline is a multi-billion-dollar investment to expand our reliance on the dirtiest source of transportation fuel currently available,” Mr. Waxman said in a letter to […]

Svalbard Diary: The unending light
The trip to Oslo is the first leg of a journey to the Svalbard archipelago, a set of islands north of Norway which boast the most northerly settlement in the eastern hemisphere: Ny Alesund. On the western shore of the island of Spitsbergen, this place is devoted more or less entirely […]

Chatham House Briefing Paper - Cleo Paskal: How climate change is pushing the boundaries of security and foreign policy ; More of Cleo’s publications ; Global Warring website;  International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Climate Change and Security ; The Regional Impacts of Climate Change ; Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)
Cleo Paskal’s Global Warring […]

The TWO Analysis – Introducing a Methodology for the Transboundary Waters Opportunity Analysis . The report details an analytical framework for effectively developing transboundary water resources in a responsible manner and outlines an approach by which transboundary water stakeholders can collaborate on the equitable and sustainable use of their jointly held freshwater resources.
The fall […]

Background on UN Convention of Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)
Real Climate - Climate science from climate scientists Arctic & Antarctic

Photograph: Louise Murray/Science Photo Library
Global warming accelerated by Arctic ice loss
recent reports by climate scientists state that global warming may be getting more critical than usual. It is known globally by everyone that the temperature […]