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A growing array of military leaders, Arctic experts and lawmakers say the United States is losing its ability to patrol and safeguard Arctic waters.

Lance Armstrong’s household has been revealed as one of the biggest individual users of water in a city definitely short on rain.

Researchers report that the coastal seafloor of many of the world’s oceans can barely sustain marine life due to human activity.

Between 1971 and 1996, 17,671 indigenous people in Canada were found to have dangerous levels of mercury in their blood. The first steps are being made towards a class action law suit against the federal government.

The number of individuals performing bioterrorism research on deadly pathogens across the country has jumped to nearly 15,000, and most of them are authorized to work with anthrax, federal records obtained by The Courant reveal.

A state utility regulator said a $1 million pollution fine paid by Honeywell International Inc. should go to help the community most harmed, not to a regional "cap and trade" program aimed at cutting greenhouse gases.

On Aug. 6, nearly seven years after anonymous letters containing anthrax spores killed five people and sickened 17 others, the FBI and Department of Justice presented their case against Ivins.

Officials have decided to make their first detailed public presentation next week on the forensic science used to trace the anthrax used in the 2001 attacks.

The FBI says the government biodefense researcher acted alone in the 2001 anthrax mailings that killed five people and sickened 17.

The Appeals Court on Thursday ruled in favour of Klity villagers affected by lead poisoning from a creek in Kanchanaburi. The lead contamination in the natural water supply was caused by mining upstream.

On August 8, India's Supreme Court gave Vedanta Resources--a metals and minerals giant--permission to mine the Niyamgiri hills. The decision was condemned by international campaigning groups which say the project will rob tribal people of their way of life.

- Chevron Corp on Friday said it was open to an amicable solution to resolve a lawsuit by 30,000 Amazon jungle dwellers suing the U.S. oil major in Ecuador for up to $16 billion in environmental damages.

First Nations should lead a national water strategy through the creation of a royal commission to capture the views of Canadians and make recommendations to government about what it must do.

The Jacksonville neighborhood around a polluted Talleyrand waterfront area may get state money for community projects through an unusual cleanup plan that supporters call a matter of justice.

Southwest Chula Vista residents protest expanded power plant plan.

Away from the well-worn tourist routes of Beverly Hills and Hollywood, Robert Cabrales is preparing to take a bus-load of sightseers on a journey that he says aims to expose the city’s “dirty little secrets.”

Energy use has to be cut soon, so it's odd that this techno-savvy British cabinet still shies away from a simple credit system.

Two California companies plan to build solar power plants 10 times larger than the largest now in service, creating the first utility-scale use of technology mostly confined to rooftops.

If you're in Harlem....

Synopsis: This feature documentary discloses the ties between the Hip Hop Music community and America’s social and political policy in the last 30 years. This film illuminates rap’s birth during the aftermath of the Black Power Movement, and Hip Hop’s progression from block party music to having its lyrics debated in the halls of Congress. Letter to the President features Snoop Dogg, Jay Z, Ludacris, 50 Cent, Quincy Jones, Will i Am, Maxine Waters, TI, Russell Simmons, David Banner, Chingy, Colin Powell, Common, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and many others.

Date: Sunday, August 17, 2008

Location: 135th Street & St. Nicholas Park on the Great Lawn

Rain Location: Harlem School of the Arts, 645 St. Nicholas Ave (btwn 141st & 142nd)

Music by The Legendary Chris Washington at 6:00 pm. Film starts at 8:00 pm

Event Production: ImageNation