Creeping Dead Zones – on sea and ocean floors

NASA – March 29, 2007 “Dead zones” in this context are areas where the bottom water (the water at the sea floor) is anoxic – meaning that it has very low (or completely zero) concentrations of dissolved oxygen. These dead zones are occurring in many areas along the coasts of major continents, and they are spreading over larger areas of the sea floor. Because very few organisms can tolerate the. . . CONTINUE

NIMH batteries Held Hostage by Chevron-Texaco

March 24, 2007 http://pppad.blogspot.com/2007/05/nimh-held-hostage-by-chevron-texaco.html http://www.ev1.org/chevron.htm Plug-in hybrids are forced to use lead-acid or lithium batteries, and it’s no accident. The existing and proven EV-95 NiMH battery from Panasonic, which lasts longer than the life of the car, has adequate power for acceleration without an Internal Combustion (“IC”) engine, and can drive an EV at 80 mph for up to 120 miles, went into production in Jan., 1997. These batteries are. . . CONTINUE

Bush admin. Memos Tell Officials to lie about the Climate

By ANDREW C. REVKIN Published: March 8, 2007 “This sure sounds like a Soviet-style directive to me” – a former Interior Department official in the Clinton administration. Internal memorandums circulated in the Alaskan division of the Federal Fish and Wildlife Service appear to require government biologists or other employees traveling in countries around the Arctic not to discuss climate change, polar bears or sea ice if they are not designated. . . CONTINUE