Category: RT Newswire

BBC News-08:12 GMT, Sunday, 15 June 2008 09:12 UK
A Million Flee South China Floods

Video: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7455239.stm

Flooding in southern China has killed at least 55 people and forced more than one million to flee their homes, the government says.

Torrential downpours have affected nine provinces, China’s civil affairs ministry says. More rain is expected in the coming days, forecasters warn.

Among those provinces badly hit is Sichuan, which is still reeling from last month’s massive earthquake.

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Published on Saturday, June 14, 2008 by Inter Press Service
“Water Is Alive, It Hears Our Words”
by Alice Gordon

LAKE LANIER ISLANDS – Native Americans and others completed a 10-day “Walk for the Water” this week along the Chattahoochee River, which some estimates say will dry up completely by 2025 due to pressure from the rapidly growing city of Atlanta.

“We have a problem with water,” Gary Fourstar, of Assiniboine and Ohlone lineage and one of the event founders, told IPS. “States are fighting over rights. Water has become like everything else: a commodity rather than being given to us freely by the creator and used as it was meant to be. It is being used for commercial purposes… It becomes a resource, and like all resources is to be used up rather than taken care of.”

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When the question is asked who will survive climate change and how-the answer will always begin with water. Water is Life. These 4 news items come from Central Asia, Ethiopia, and North America (Turtle Island).

ASW

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IT’S ABOUT TIME SOMEBODY IN AN “OFFICIAL” CAPACITY CALLED ATTENTION TO
THIS!! NOW LET’S SHUT ‘EM THE F*CK DOWN!!

REALITY: IT’S NOT JUST FOR RADIKALS ANYMORE…

ASW

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Subject: Cut US national forests, dump CO2 to the skies
From:    “Lance Olsen” <lance@wildrockies.org>
Date:    Fri, June 13, 2008 10:00 am
To:      “cmcr-outreach” <cmcr-outreach@vortex.wildrockies.org>
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This one’s of some interest for giving a glimpse into the climate
consequences of the 1980s trio of booms (in logging, lending and
construction) that led up to the notorious S&Ls scandals and its
threats to the U.S. financial system. As always, forests are a
leading economic indicator, but not always in the way its boosters
claim.
Lance

Forest Ecology and Management 255 (2008) 1122-1134

Public land, timber harvests, and climate mitigation: Quantifying
carbon sequestration potential on U.S. public timberlands

Brooks M. Depro , Brian C. Murray, Ralph J. Alig, Alyssa Shanks

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