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The Exxon Valdez Spill Is Still Making Fish Suffer 26 Years Later

On March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker collided with the Blight Reef in Alaska, spilling at least 11 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound. Some es...

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Environment

If We Burn All The World's Fossil Fuels, We'll Melt Antarctica & Flood The Earth.

"We show in simulations using the Parallel Ice Sheet Model that burning the currently attainable fossil fuel resources is sufficient to eliminate the ice sheet," the author...

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TV

True Review TV - New Hope, Old Hand

July has been somewhat satisfying for televiewing, barring a few glitches and peeves. Admittedly, I would doff my cap to Asit Modi, his team of writers and cast of Taarak M...

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Thought Factory

Environment, Development And The Paradox Of Progress

The wisdom of ancients was cast in proverbial stone when the Atharva Veda extolled believers to worship the environment, and consequently immortalized the message of preser...

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Thought Factory

The Subdued Whispers Of Posterity In Fallout

The world stood still as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb quoted from a passage of the Bhagvad Geeta where Krishna reveals himself to Arjuna “I ha...

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Thought Factory

Apathy, Waste And The Rhetoric Of Concern

Rafi Nagar, Deonar, Mumbai
April 2012

The auto-rickshaw stopped at the corner of the narrow road. A large mound of garbag...

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Movies

True Review Movie - The Transporter Refueled review

Critics rating: 2 Stars

Cast:  Ed Skrein, Ray Stevenson, Loan Chabanol, Gabriella Wright, Tatjana Pajković, Wenxia Yu, Radi...

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Movies

True Review Movie - Welcome Back

Critics rating: 1.5 Stars*

Cast:  John Abraham, Nana Patekar, Anil Kapoor, Shruti Haasan, Shiney Ahuja, Paresh Rawal. Read More

Environment

Tens of Thousands of Stranded Walruses Are Once Again Gathering in Alaska

With the sea ice where they rest and hunt melted away, thousands of walruses have once again flooded the shoreline near the village of Point Lay, Alaska. The massings, whic...

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Environment

The Ten-Year Mission To Study All The Ways The Arctic Is Doomed

Called the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment, or ABoVE for short, the large-scale study will combine on-the-ground field studies as well as data from remote sensors?su...

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