| 2013-01-28 |
1997
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"...none of the biofuel technologies considered in our analysis appears even close to being feasible on a large scale due to shortages of both arable land and water...biofuels are unlikely to alleviate to any significant extent the current dependence on fossil energy..."
-- Giampietro, Ulgiati and Pimentel, 1997, p. 588.
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| 2013-01-27 |
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The small particles of wood-smoke bypass the normal body defence mechanisms and penetrate deep into the alveoli of the lungs, harming the respiratory system.
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| 2013-01-27 |
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Wood-smoke particulates can easily be transported over great distances.
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| 2013-01-27 |
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Wood-smoke containing a mixture of particulate matter and toxic and irritant gases such as carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, acrolein, benzene, nitrogen dioxide and ozone.
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| 2013-01-27 |
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Forest fires produce large amounts of (biomass) wood-smoke.
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| 2013-01-08 |
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Minimum Wage Regulations
Minimum wage regulations increase the standard of living of minorities.
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| 2012-04-07 |
2012-03-14
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U.S. President Barack Obama announced that the United States, along with the European Union and Japan, has brought a trade case to the World Trade Organization against China over the rare earth dispute.
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| 2012-04-07 |
2010-11
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In Georgia, the Georgian government arrested two smugglers who were trying to sell highly enriched uranium to Islamic extremist groups. The uranium sample was 89.4 percent enriched, enough to make an atom bomb. The two smugglers confessed that they could get much more highly enriched uranium from their supplier.
It was the third time in seven years that highly enriched uranium had been intercepted in Georgia.
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| 2012-04-07 |
2011-08
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In Sweden, a child was given a swastika tattoo with fast food kids meal.
According to Fox News
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| 2012-04-07 |
2011-07
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In Sweden, a neo-Nazi site was charged with hate speech.
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