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TreeHugger:
Image credit: Cedar ConsultingContradictory science is nothing new within the green movement—from those who claim that solar energy could power the world to those who argue that nuclear power could solve the energy crisis, fr (Read More)
The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future:
Permafrost thaw threatens Russia oil and gas complex: studyMOSCOW (AFP) – Thawing permafrost caused by global warming is costing Russian energy firms billions of dollars annually in damage control and shrinking Russia's terri (Read More)
The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future:
Peak Oil Files: Why Is Saudi Aramco Building Supercomputers?The biannual list of the world’s 500 fastest computers was released on Tuesday and Aramco had two new entries at No. 119 and No. 134. Both are Dell clusters, running (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Politics:
Richard Lambert says even the Conservatives are not ambitious enough about cutting the Britain's deficitRichard Lambert can see for himself the hole into which public money is being poured. Outside the CBI's offices in London (Read More)
The Guardian:
President's warning comes as Tehran rejects reprocessing dealBarack Obama has signalled a further escalation in the crisis over Iran's nuclear ambitions by serving notice that punitive measures could be agreed "within weeks". (Read More)
The Guardian:
After uncertain beginnings, Scotland's flagship contemporary dance group pulled itself up by the bootstraps and leaped towards worldwide acclaimIn short For years, Scottish Dance Theatre struggled to survive in the isolated a (Read More)
The Guardian:
Separating Iran-US talks from the nuclear issue would drive engagement on other key topics such as Iraq or AfghanistanAs Iran continues to play hide and seek in its response to a nuclear deal supposedly agreed in Vienna, the (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
More than 1,000 people have travelled to Switzerland to end their lives. But what is it really like inside the world's first assisted suicide clinic?Ludwig Minelli is explaining the best techniques for an efficient suicide wh (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Water experts to debate the best ideas to avoid a future crisis in clean water at the Royal Geographical Society. Here, four of the speakers argue for their solutionsSand dams'They transform lives and they transform fragile e (Read More)
The Guardian:
Our need for a greener, life-enhancing economic model should make us seek answers in the unlikeliest of placesPerhaps it was when investigators realised that a mortgage had been given to an "M Mouse" that the depth of the ban (Read More)
BBC News Player | Business:
Russian energy giant Gazprom has criticised the European Union for not doing enough to head off another gas crisis this winter. (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Brendan Barber says sustainable growth is needed to nurse public finances back to health"Slash and burn" spending cuts could sentence the UK to a decade as a Japanese-style "zombie economy," TUC general secretary Brendan Barb (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
In his Hugo Young lecture, David Cameron shows his social and political illiteracy, in two critical senses (Big society can fight poverty. Big government just fuels it, 10 November).First, there is no remedy for the inequalit (Read More)
The Guardian:
As long as it divides the Tehran regime, western diplomats are reluctant to give up entirely on a uranium dealThe patient has shown no sign of life for weeks, but no one is ready yet to declare it dead. The International Atom (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Virgin, Stagecoach and Yahoo among firms calling for measures to address economic dislocation from a sudden rise in oil prices An industry organisation, which includes Virgin and Yahoo among its members, has called on the gov (Read More)
The Guardian:
Merely reducing Britain's trillion-pound debt mountain will not be enough to reinvigorate the economy: the tricky bit is stimulating growth at the same time. Observer columnist Will Hutton goes head to head with George Osborn (Read More)
The Guardian:
Gordon Brown deserves praise for backing an international tax on financial transactions. Now he just needs to reform the banks"The Tobin tax is like the Loch Ness monster; it appears once or twice a year, then goes away." Otm (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Once, enlightened liberals stood up for the rights of prisoners. Now they have taken the state's shillingJournalists pray for disasters for the same reason that farmers pray for rain: they bring us a bumper crop of stories. S (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
The story of regional theatre in recent years has been bleak, with some of Britain's oldest venues facing closure. But as Kate Kellaway discovers, a new crop of creative directors are making local heroes of themselvesThis wee (Read More)
The Guardian:
The oil trade is a market in the same sense that the Millennium Dome was a tourist attraction. Demand and supply curves; transparency and predictability – such terms are for the birds here. Oil traders deal in a finite resour (Read More)
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