Propeller.com Stories submitted by Alexia

Arctic global warming

Alexia — Fri, 02 May 2008 00:16:57 EDT

Over 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle, in the polar dark of a December morning, University of Manitoba Ph.D. student Jesse Carrie is out on the frozen Beaufort Sea, collecting ice samples to measure for mercury and pesticides. Lowered by crane from the deck of the icebreaking research vessel the CCGS Amundsen, and accompanied by a rifle bearer who keeps watch for polar bears, Carrie extracts ice cores and vials of frigid water.

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To save a species, serve it for dinner

Alexia — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:31:01 EDT

Some people would just as soon ignore the culinary potential of the Carolina flying squirrel or the Waldoboro green neck rutabaga. To them, the creamy Hutterite soup bean is too obscure and the Tennessee fainting goat, which keels over when startled, sounds more like a sideshow act than the centerpiece of a barbecue.

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David Blaine breaks world record for holding one's breath

Alexia — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:46:23 EDT

David Blaine took on a Zen-like appearance in the water tank as the minutes ticked by during his attempt to set a new breath-holding record. Oprah Winfrey, however, was anything but calm.

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James Reynolds' China

Alexia — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:26:05 EDT

The Chinese Communist Party has taken away my opening line. A month or two ago, when I thought about how I'd start this blog, this seemed like the best way to begin: "If you're reading these words, you're not in China." (a nice, pithy start that I was extremely proud of.) At the time, the Chinese government blocked access to this website - it had done so for years, for reasons that were never entirely explained.

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Zimbabwe recount shows opposition ahead

Alexia — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:47:15 EDT

The initial results made public in the days after the March 29 election gave the opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) a majority, but the ZEC began recounting 23 voting districts last week after President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party complained of count irregularities.

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Police raid headquarters of opposition in Zimbabwe

Alexia — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:53:07 EDT

Truckloads of heavily armed police officers rounded up scores of people at the headquarters of Zimbabwe's main opposition party Friday and descended upon independent monitors who kept watch on the disputed elections last month, opposition officials, witnesses and the police said.

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Beijing to hold talks with Dalai Lama's envoys

Alexia — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:47:53 EDT

Under increasing pressure from Europe and elsewhere, the Chinese government announced Friday that it would meet with envoys of the Dalai Lama, an unexpected shift that comes as Tibetan unrest in western China has threatened to cast a pall over the Olympic Games in August.

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Earth Day Roundup: Cool Things You Can Do

Alexia — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:54:04 EDT

Perhaps we are a bit blase about Earth Day; certainly most of the Earth Day stuff in the mainstream media is old hat to TreeHugger readers. Other green sites are making a point of ignoring it completely, which is perhaps better than their crapping all over it last year. Perhaps Jasmin is right, that Earth Day is the New Christmas, and that Corporate America has co-opted and monetized it.

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