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 Treehugger 
Energy News Recap: Scientists Warn Against Arctic Oil Drilling; Palestinians Install Renewable Energy Despite Opposition; More
Mon 13 Feb 2012
/CC BY-ND 2.0 Past energy sources continue plodding onward to an inevitable if slow demise, while the future of energy is researched in MIT labs, deployed in the California desert, and installed in... (photo: US Coastguard)
Palestinian children fill plastic bottles and jerry cans with drinking water from a public tap at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters in the southern Gaza Strip refugee camp  on September 23, 201. (Photo by Ahmed Deeb/wn)
Climate   Development   Environment   Photos   Wikipedia: Natural resource
 Al Jazeera 
Co-operation in a world of scarce resources
Mon 6 Feb 2012
From competition among hunter-gatherers for wild game to imperialist wars over precious minerals, resource wars have been fought throughout history; today, however, the competition appears set to... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
shell oil  Tampa Bay Online  Sun 5 Feb 2012
Shell has high hopes for Arctic drilling
ANCHORAGE, AlaskaIt's the billion-dollar question in Alaska for 2012: Will this be the year Shell Oil begins large-scale offshore exploratory drilling in Arctic waters? Two months into 2012, the... (photo: Creative Commons / Lee Jordan)
Alaska   Business   Economy   Photos   Wikipedia: Shell Oil Company
U.S. President Barack Obama is seen during the G8 Summit, in L'Aquila, Italy, Thursday, July 9, 2009  Seattle Times  Sun 29 Jan 2012
Pow! Presidential race goes to moon
The record shall reflect that, in the 2012 presidential campaign, the shark was officially jumped at 9:25 p.m. EST Thursday. That's when Reuters - placing itself at grave risk of being confused with a... (photo: AP / Haraz N. Ghanbari)
Elections   Photos   Politics   Space Programme   US   Wikipedia: United States presidential election, 2012 timeline
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An Occupy Wall Street protester confronts a police barricade at 14th Street and Broadway in Oakland, Calif., Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011. The Guardian Sun 29 Jan 2012
Police use tear gas on Occupy Oakland protesters
Police said they used tear gas after protesters pelted them with bottles, rocks, burning flares and other objects Members of the Oakland Police department form a line... (photo: AP / Darryl Bush)
California   Photos   Police   Protesters   Wikipedia: Occupy Oakland
Life's a tag: 2012's most surprising holiday destinations - and the best time to visit them The Independent Sun 29 Jan 2012
Life's a tag: 2012's most surprising holiday destinations - and the best time to visit them
By Lisa Markwell Whether you enjoy a trip to L'Albereta depends on whether you like lying on a sun lounger in a verdant landscape, eating rich food and drinking sparkling... (photo: WN / Marzena Jazowska)
Food   Holiday   Photos   Tourism   Travel   Wikipedia: Holiday
2010 Toyota Prius photographed at the 2009 Washington DC Auto Show. Bloomberg Wed 18 Jan 2012
Toyota Prius Wagon Outsells GM Volt
Toyota Motor Corp. (7203) scored a quick victory in 2011 as U.S. deliveries of its Prius v wagon in 10 weeks topped sales of General Motors Co. (GM)’s Chevrolet Volt... (photo: Public Domain / IFCAR)
Auto   Motor   Photos   Toyota   Wikipedia: Toyota Prius
In this photo provided by Greenpeace International, Greenpeace International global head Kumi Naidoo, left, and an unidentified person hold a banner aboard a boat near an oil rig in the Davis Strait, off Greenland's west coast, Friday, June 17, 2011. The Guardian Wed 18 Jan 2012
Greenpeace urges government to halt 'reckless' Arctic oil rush
At a special House of Commons hearing, ministers will be asked to reconsider support for Cairn Energy drilling in the far north Greenpeace activists protesting against... (photo: AP / Greenpeace International, Jiri Rezac)
Environment   Oil   Photos   Pollution   Wikipedia: Arctic
Tanker with crucial fuel delivery arrives off Nome Austin American Statesman Sat 14 Jan 2012
Tanker with crucial fuel delivery arrives off Nome
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A Russian tanker has spent weeks muscling its way through hundreds of miles of Bering Sea ice several feet thick to get fuel to Nome. Now comes... (photo: U.S. Coast Guard photo )
Alaska   Fuel   Photos   Russia   Tanker   Wikipedia: Bering Sea


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