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The WA Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) wants every new project to aim for carbon neutrality, costing billions, almost certainly increasing pollution overseas, but hoping to lower temperatures over WA by 2100 AD. The EPA is a scientific advisory body — the government doesn’t have to follow their advice — but if it does, and the advice was wrong — who is responsible for loss and damages wh
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2019-09-05%20James%20Evan%20Pilato.mp3"][/audio] This week on the New World Next Week: US military to fight fake news; KSM provides the annual 9/11 distraction; and academics propose cannibalism #NotTheOnion.
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2019-09-04%20James%20Corbett.mp3"][/audio] Ernest Hancock interviews James Corbett on a variety of world news headlines. Topics include 9/11 news, media manipulation, Dave Chapelle, the Plunge Protection Team, etc...
Whether you're biking off-road, hiking in the mid-day sun or simply trying to make your way to work.
It could have been headlined: How to host Climate Tupperware Parties It’s another ABC coaching session on how to be a useful political activist. Having beaten Fairfax into the dirt, the ABC is gradually becoming Time-magazine-Readers-Digest-and-Womens-Weekly rolled into one, but aimed at teenagers. Fear of being seen as too ‘activist’ may be stopping us from achieving meaningful sustainability By
Your Lego Star Wars fleet just got a whole lot more powerful. On Wednesday, Lego announced the latest addition to its ever-expanding Star Wars collection: a 4,784-piece model of the Imperial Star Destroyer — the "Devastator" — as seen in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. The new release comes as part of the continued 20th anniversary celebration of Star Wars' first collaboration with Lego in 19
This may come as a shock to you, but President Trump messed up. On Sunday, Trump falsely claimed in a tweet that Hurricane Dorian would be heading towards Alabama. Meteorologists later confirmed that statement wasn't true, but Trump refuses to admit that he shared an incorrect fact so he made the decision to stick by his tweet in the days that followed. When speaking about the storm's progress in
The results of a biological study of Loch Ness have revealed a possible explanation for the elusive monster. The study, which was lead by New Zealand ...
Two warrior skeletons unearthed in Scotland had been buried together in a coffin alongside four other skulls. Thought to date back to the 15th Century...
IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: U.S. East Coast facing down Hurricane Dorian; Humanitarian crisis unfolding in The Bahamas in Dorian's wake; PLUS: 2020 Democrats dive deep into climate action in CNN's marathon 'Climate Crisis Town Hall'... All that and more in today's Green News Report! Listen online here, or Download MP3 (6 mins)... Link: Embed: Got comments, tips, love letters, hate mail? Drop us a li
PM’s speech in West Yorkshire appeared largely unscripted and was dogged by incident Follow all the day’s politics news – live Boris Johnson has said he would “rather be dead in a ditch” than agree a Brexit extension while refusing to say what he would do if this was forced on him, in a sometimes rambling speech in West Yorkshire. Johnson’s address and subsequent media question-and-answer session
PM’s brother cites ‘unresolvable tension’ between ‘family loyalty and the national interest’ as he announces he will resign as MP and minister Lords agree to rule out filibuster How the papers covered Johnson’s horror day in Commons Explainer: is no deal blocked? Is an election happening? 12.21pm BST Brexit secretary Stephen Barclay has declined to give assurances to Labour that the government it
President Donald Trump still wants his wall, but it turns out that despite his campaign promises, Mexico will not be paying for it. So his administration found a way to get funding: They’re pulling money from military projects and the fund that’s intended to help Puerto Rico recover from Hurricane Maria. The Pentagon reportedly plans to divert some $3.6 billion from 127 military projects across t
Andy Borowitz jokes that the United Kingdom’s situation it faces Brexit under Boris Johnson is so embarrassing that even Johnson’s dog is distancing himself from the Tory Prime Minister.
"We can now return to the trial court where we intend to hold Mr. Jones fully accountable"
Mortar shells shown in an Islamic State propaganda video have put a Bulgarian journalist on the scent of an alleged US-run arms shipping network supplying militants in the Middle East, she told RT in an exclusive interview. This story began back in June, when Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorists in Yemen demonstrated several Serbian-made 82mm mortar shells in their propaganda video. Indepe
The 347 scientists who collaborated to produce the world's first image of a black hole were honored Thursday with the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, winning $3 million dollars for what is known as the "Oscars of science."
By sequencing 523 ancient humans, we show that the primary source of ancestry in modern South Asians is a prehistoric genetic gradient between people related to early hunter-gatherers of Iran and Southeast Asia. After the Indus Valley Civilization’s decline, its people mixed with individuals in the southeast to form one of the two main ancestral populations of South Asia, whose direct descendants
A large European study found that compared with participants who drank less than one glass of sugar-sweetened or artificially sweetened soft drinks per month, participants who drank two or more glasses of these drinks per day had a higher risk of all-cause mortality.
An exotic physical phenomenon, involving optical waves, synthetic magnetic fields, and time reversal, has been directly observed for the first time, following decades of attempts. The new finding could lead to realizations of what are known as topological phases, and eventually to advances toward fault-tolerant quantum computers, the researchers say.
As Hurricane Dorian bore down on the Atlantic coast on Wednesday (Sept. 4), meteorologists suddenly found themselves facing an unexpected hurricane hazard: a president with a Sharpie pen.
Nature, Published online: 05 September 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02659-5 The Event Horizon Telescope team wins a Breakthrough Prize — one of six awards covering physics, the life sciences and mathematics.
 

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