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...world, that has meant the creation of protected parklands like the Réserve Spéciale d'Analamazaotra, where one goes hunting (with cameras) for lemurs. But now scientists recognize that deforestation in tropical countries like Madagascar could be responsible for up to a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions, giving another new incentive to save and expand forests...
...others point out: Russia currently has a whopping $550 billion in foreign-currency reserves, a hefty budget surplus, a negligible national debt and an economy that remains on course to grow by 7% this year. The fount of much of the nation's newfound wealth - oil and gas - isn't affected by these banking liquidity problems. As long as the price of oil stays somewhere above about $70 per barrel, the windfall profits will continue to roll in. Moreover, only about 2% of Russian households - the very affluent - own stocks, so the market plunge won't affect the population...
...Have we turned into a nation of docile sheep? After eight years of hardships and sacrifices - from this dismal economy, horrendous gas prices, and double wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - why would we want more of the same misery from "McPalin"? Palin is so extreme in her views that she may as well be a mullah in a dress. Her utter lack of political nous and international knowledge is shameful. This country will be the world's laughing stock if this sort of Republican ticket makes it to the Oval Office. McCain picking Palin is a big insult...
Former Vice President and environmental crusader Al Gore ’69 will speak at a Harvard-wide “celebration on sustainability” on Oct. 22, University President Drew G. Faust announced yesterday. The event will formally launch a greenhouse gas reduction initiative—first announced in June—which aims to reduce Harvard’s greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent below 2008 levels by 2016. The target came as the chief recommendation in the report of the oft-touted Greenhouse Gas Task Force, which Faust convened last winter. Gore grabbed the national...
...This is not to say that Russia hasn’t acted aggressively to reassert itself as the dominant regional power. In 2006, to cite just one example, Gazprom, Russia’s state-controlled gas conglomerate, cut off supplies to Ukraine to influence domestic Ukrainian politics. But Russia’s actions toward Georgia in August cannot be viewed in a simplistic framework of unilateral Russian bullying...