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...fate of one stubborn little village normally wouldn't make much of a splash. But Shishmaref and other Alaskan settlements are attracting national attention because scientists see them as gloomy harbingers. "Shishmaref is the canary in the coal mine--an indicator of what's to come elsewhere," says Gunter Weller, director of the University of Alaska's Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research...
...film, which opens this week, is being marketed mostly on the box-office clout of its star, Reese Witherspoon. But Nair's hand creates the movie's personality: she fills the film with vibrant costumes and boisterous energy. "Early 19th century London was filthy and cacophonous; it had coal and pigs and s___ on the street," says Nair. "That city we never see onscreen; everything is always genteel drawing rooms. And I wanted you to smell the s___, because I couldn't be dragged to see those genteel, hope-the-guy-proposes-to-me kind of movies...
VALLIERE: A pure play here would be coal. Kerry and his wife have a strong bias against coal in terms of regulations and emissions. But they would be good for alternatives like wind and solar. Florida Power & Light is considered the leader in developing wind power...
...example, Kennedy said, because of previously illegal coal burning corporations in the Ohio Valley, asthma has reached an unprecedented level in newborns...
...this year to help meet demand. Another problem is finding a cheap way to generate power but still abide by E.U. pollution regulations and the Kyoto protocol to reduce greenhouse emissions. While most countries except France and Finland are phasing out nuclear power, there aren't many attractive alternatives. Coal-fired electricity plants are cheap but notoriously dirty. Natural gas, although cleaner, leaves countries dependent on insecure sources of supply like northern Africa and central Asia. Renewables like windmills and solar panels are part of the solution - the number has grown exponentially in the past five years in Europe...