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Global warming is Ocean warming. SLR — Sea Level Rise Climate change has come for Christmas this year as gifts for consumer purchases are being delayed at the Panama Canal due to a long-running drought during what should be one of the wettest nations'...
by Pakalolo
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on Sun Sep 10, 2023 at 08:55 AM PDT
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Those anxious about the growing world food crisis were served large helpings of hope and skepticism over the last week, as a deal was signed to allow grain shipments to resume out of Ukraine’s southern ports, and then Russia immediately resumed missile...
by avatarabbiehoffman
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on Wed Jul 27, 2022 at 12:57 PM PDT
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In October, the accelerating U.S. economy ran up against corporate supply chain problems as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic shredded "just-in-time" manufacturing pipelines. Closed factories, shortages of components, and shortages of labor have been...
by Hunter
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on Wed Dec 22, 2021 at 11:13 AM PST
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Closer to home… A huge storm is bearing down on the entire U.S and Canadian west coasts, with record low pressure. Not a hurricane, exactly, but a monster. It’s likely California will be drenched, totally. A storm like this carries winds of hurricane...
by boomheist
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on Sun Oct 24, 2021 at 04:10 PM PDT
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Somewhere along the way the world economy has taken on a structure that proves to have some serious vulnerabilities. One ship sideways in a major chokepoint had global consequences. The New York Times has some details: ...Two weeks could strand as...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Mar 30, 2021 at 06:47 AM PDT
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A cemetery on the shoreline on Majuro Atoll being flooded at high tide in 2008. The low-lying Marshall Islands, a Pacific atoll chain that rises barely a meter above sea level. Giff Johnson/AFP/...
by Pakalolo
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on Mon May 18, 2015 at 03:55 PM PDT
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The Obama administration is negating all their positive actions on climate change in one disastrous decision to lease an enormous area of federal land for coal mining in Wyoming's Powder River basin ...
by FishOutofWater
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on Wed Aug 21, 2013 at 05:48 PM PDT
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I am very happy to see Senator Jeff Merkley (D. OR) take the lead on this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/16/jeff-merkley-monsanto-repeal_n_3288209.html?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Fri May 17, 2013 at 10:24 AM PDT
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And wears a brown UPS uniform, or Postal Service blue or a Longshoreman or railroader's fluorescent safety vest. Yup, after three decades of deregulation and union busting, union parcel carriers UPS ...
by GearheadGrrrl
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on Mon Dec 24, 2012 at 02:00 PM PST
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I was born in this town. I went to public schools and was graduated by The University of South Carolina.
I decided to give back to my hometown. My talents, what I have learned and experienced in ...
by Jamie Sanderson
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on Mon Apr 23, 2012 at 03:20 AM PDT
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It's been a while since we've seen or heard from the Georgetown Port task force in South Carolina. Whether they may be working back-room deals with lawmakers or they've given the issue a break until ...
by Jamie Sanderson
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on Sat Dec 24, 2011 at 09:38 AM PST
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There's a debate raging over the OWS port shutdowns, and the role of unions in the shutdowns. Some believe workers have been betrayed; others claim that unions simply cannot signal their support.
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by Richard Myers
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on Mon Dec 12, 2011 at 10:14 PM PST
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Our weary Secessionist-in-Chief is beginning to realize that this presidential campaign thing is a lot of work. More work than he’s accustomed to, for sure. On days like this, he ...
by cassandracarolina
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on Wed Sep 28, 2011 at 10:09 AM PDT
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At least according to this far-sighted Transportation-Infrastructure Report (6 MB pdf):
Building America’s ...
by jamess
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on Sun Aug 14, 2011 at 10:48 AM PDT
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Looking back, I can see how I got to this point. I've had trouble getting blood taken for about forty years. I can remember one of the reasons I left Kaiser was because the phlebotomist poked me ...
by Lorikeet
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on Tue Aug 02, 2011 at 09:26 AM PDT
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One of the issues that spurred our war of choice in Iraq was the false insistence by the criminal Bush administration that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, specifically nuclear weapons.
by Something the Dog Said
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on Thu Sep 16, 2010 at 06:27 AM PDT
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I. slash of his pen
Last week CA Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill that would have placed a $20 per container fee on shipping containers at California ports, raising $300 million annually to ...
by lostangeles
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on Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 10:33 AM PDT
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Many people don’t think much about the Coast Guard, especially landlubbers. It’s easy to forget the Coast Guard’s very real war against the weather and other important threats ...
by LeftOfYou
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on Thu Sep 18, 2008 at 06:21 PM PDT
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Although the US media has chosen not to cover this as news, marine terminals closed across the West Coast early Thursday as longshoremen protested the war in Iraq
All 29 U.S. West Coast ...
by Cantinflas
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on Thu May 01, 2008 at 02:07 PM PDT
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I'm surprised nobody here is all over the Mexican Truck story -- that is, the fact that some Judge has decided, over the objections of Labor, Environmental, and Safety organizations, that it's just A-
by theyrereal
400 comments
on Mon Sep 03, 2007 at 11:11 AM PDT
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