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The 2006 G20 meeting of finance ministers, reserve bank governors and the heads of the World Bank and IMF will take place in Melbourne on November 18-19. This will be the most significant gathering in Melbourne of people responsible for pushing corporate-led globalisation, neoliberalism and capitalism since the World Economic Forum in 2000. Here are…

Science Discovery: Bushcronium, A New Element by Dr Julius Sumner Miller II Tuesday January 17, 2006 at 10:04 AM A major research institution has just announced the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element has been named “Bushcronium.” Bushcronium has one neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 224…

Environment in crisis: ‘We are past the point of no return’ Thirty years ago, the scientist James Lovelock worked out that the Earth possessed a planetary-scale control system which kept the environment fit for life. He called it Gaia, and the theory has become widely accepted. Now, he believes mankind’s abuse of the environment is…

“THE world has already passed the point of no return on global warming, and efforts to slow it may already be doomed, one of Britain’s best-known environmentalists says. In what The Independent described as the bleakest assessment yet of the effects of climate change by a leading scientist, Professor James Lovelock said billions would die…

Six countries responsible for around half of the world’s greenhouse emissions met last week with a range of industry representatives to address the warming of the planet. However environmental groups and opposition parties say that the funds committed during the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, as well as the incentives for industry…

Flannery sets deadline to save world By Edmund TadrosJanuary 17, 2006 – 11:13AM Australian scientist Tim Flannery said the world still had ‘one to two decades’ to take action to reduce global warming, despite one of Britain’s best-known environmentalists warning that the world has already passed the point of no return on global warming. In…

Warmer temperatures enhance growth conditions of fatal fungus EnvironmentWashington, D.C. – infoZine – Results of a new study provide the first clear proof that global warming is causing outbreaks of an infectious disease that is wiping out entire frog populations and driving many species to extinction. Published in the Jan. 12 issue of the journal…

Bloomberg.com: Canada: “Climate Change Will Kill Billions, Scientist Says (Update1) Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) — Climate change will kill billions of people this century as the Earth warms, passing into a “fever” phase from which it may take 100,000 years to recover, James Lovelock, the scientist who propounded the “Gaia” theory, said. Temperatures in temperate regions…

Why did NASA kill a climate change project? – Editorials & Commentary – International Herald Tribune: “NASA has quietly terminated the Deep Space Climate Observatory, citing ‘competing priorities.’ The news media took little notice. Few Americans, after all, had even heard of the program. But the entire world may come to mourn its passing. Earth…

The Magenn Power Air Rotor System (MARS) is an innovative lighter-than-air tethered device that rotates about a horizontal axis in response to wind, efficiently generating clean renewable electrical energy at a lower cost than all competing systems. This electrical energy is transferred down the tether to a transformer at a ground station and then transferred…