3 October - Late Links

Decline and recovery of coral reefs linked to 700 years of human and environmental activity

In the historical recovery periods we uncovered, we found that human agency is partly responsible for environmental recovery, which shows that not all human-environment interactions lead to irreversible deleterious outcomes and that degraded ecosystems may still retain the adaptive capacity and resilience to recover from human impacts."

The Cronyism Behind a Pipeline for Crude

In the first few months of the Bush administration, the vice president’s staff held a series of secret meetings with energy company executives to come up with a new energy policy that, essentially, gave big oil everything it asked for. When journalists learned about the secret sessions, they became a scandal — environmental groups complained long and loud, right up to the Supreme Court, and rightly so. Important decisions should be made in the open, not behind closed doors by cronies scratching one another’s backs.

In 2008, Barack Obama promised to turn things around with new ethics guidelines and promises of transparency. But if two batches of e-mails released via the Freedom of Information Act — the first last month and the second on Monday — are any indication, he’s not delivering on that promise.

Canada, A PetroState? The Face Of Climate Corruption in Canada

New Service for Authors Seeking to Self-Publish E-Books

Foreclosures Are Killing Us

Prison Legal News Interviews Former Prisoner and Famous Actor Danny Trejo
 

Middle East News

 

The President's Death Drones

Quarter 2: Where Presidential Candidates Got Their Money

Read more: http://technorati.com/politics/article/quarter-2-where-presidential-candidates-got/#ixzz1ZmhEOQrP

Wartime Contracting

 

Butterfly Conservatory Niagara Falls October 2010