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Russian President: Heat Waves ‘Wake Up Call’ to Climate Change

Image via the Kansas City Star “What’s happening with the planet’s climate right now needs to be a wake-up call to all of us” That’s Dmitri Medvedev, the President of Russia, addressing the record heat waves that are currently devastating the largest nation in the world. Russia has seen crippling heatwaves and record-shattering temperatures all across the nation, and approximately 25 million acres (that’s the size of all of Kentucky) of crops have withered under widespread droughts. A wake-up ca… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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What’s the Energy, Water and Greenhouse Gas Intensity of Oil Shale? High, High & High

photo: Stuart Caie via flickr In case you needed more convincing that developing the United States’ oil shale deposits into liquid fuel is an environmental nightmare and a complete non-starter from an energy perspective, Western Resource Advocates has just released a new assessment of the energy return on investment for that details it all. Here ar… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Prehistoric Humans Caused Climate Changes, Too?

Image via elisson1 It’s almost quaint to think that our ancient ancestors, living some 10,000 years ago, may have altered the planet’s climate, just like us. Though unlike today, a time when our thirst of fossil fuels is heating up the planet , a new study suggests that our distant relatives’ hunger for mammoth meat could have played a hand in ancient climate change, long before the wheel was even invented…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Prehistoric Humans Caused Climate Changes, Too?