World’s Largest Wild Salmon Population Threatened by Giant Alaskan Mine.

The EPA’s latest assessment states that the development of the mine would destroy as much as 4,800 acres of wetlands, and nearly 100 miles of streams, including the natural habitat of the 37.5 million sockeye salmon, the world’s largest wild salmon population) that travel each year to the Bristol Bay watershed to spawn.
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One giant leap for mankind: £13bn Iter project makes breakthrough in quest for nuclear fusion, a solution to climate change and an age of clean, unlimited energy

It may be the most ambitious scientific venture ever: a global collaboration to create an unlimited supply of clean, cheap energy. And this week it took a crucial step forward.
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Russian Energy giant offers to restructure banks in exchange for gas exploration rights

A lot of rumors but nothing substantial. Here is the deal; if Gazprom bails out Cyprus, then Russia has an open door into the EU. The north of Cyprus is controlled by Turkey that is involved in a power struggle in southern Russia, the Kaukasus and Central Asia.
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