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Predicting the future is a tricky business, just look at Nostradamus’ vague hallucinogenic ‘visions’ for evidence of that. Greenbang prefers reading tea leaves, but finds it a bit difficult with tea bags.

Yesterday, Congo’s government chose to withdraw more than 1,000 troops from an area in eastern Congo near Virunga National Park. Despite an ongoing conflict, the military has agreed to depart in an effort to help protect the park’s valuable natural resources, which include the endangered mountain gorilla.

"Two decades ago, the rains in southern Sudan began to fail. The drying of sub-Saharan Africa derives, to some degree, from man-made global warming. It is no accident that the violence in Darfur erupted during the drought."

In Africa the wars over water are simmering just under the surface.  Water is the resource that will be fought over in coming years, not oil.

The last 50 years have seen no less than 1,800 international disputes over water, 37 of which have become armed military conflicts. Population increases, rises in standards of living, and climate change all contribute to make this an increasingly dangerous and urgent issue.

If you can believe it, Shell Oil company provides two plausible future scenarios in which oil supply drops in either case. No surprise there. The biggest surprise is the fact that such a company would release these scenarios to the public to help usher in more renewable energy. Perhaps that is no surprise either. Take a look!

If you think that wars have no impact on the environment, maybe you should start reading. The making of weapons and military equipment creates a huge amount CO2 gas with are the main cause of global warming.

This video from Onion News Network laughs at the war in Irak while suggesting ways to make this war more eco-friendly.

The recently declassified report submitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee analyzes how Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey respond if Tehran acquires nuclear weapons.

As it rages on five years later, perhaps one should spare a moment to reflect on the environmental effects of the war in Iraq.

How to Boil a Frog's FrogBlog takes us back to the 1940's for a comedic lesson in how we can change our lives now and actually enjoy it.

From natural disasters and poor resource management, to malicious deforestation, the Darfur conflict is hugely aggravated by environmental factors. As it faces climate change before the rest of us, we could learn a lot from Sudan.

General Electric's biggest spending on "environmental initiatives" now to deflect criticism, corporate style, is ADVERTISING.

Somebody hit upon the inspiration that since cats have such a strong disdain of getting wet and always land on their feet that if you attached a cat to a bomb and drop it in the vicinity of a ship, the cat’s instinct to avoid the water would force it to guide the bomb to the enemy’s deck.

From the esteemed Sietch Blog: The NY Times and others place the cost of the war at well over a trillion dollars, enough to power at least a third of the US with wind turbines. The clean energy sure could have been nice. Not to mention a step up for health care, education, NSF funding... "Perhaps in the future we can ship wind turbines and solar panels to the Persian Gulf instead of our sons and daughters..." ^_^

As global warming continues on it rapid trend upwards and national governments still doing little to slow down the process comes a list of articles that are demonstrating the impact of human apathy and procrastination. Sequoia, Sierra Nevada, Europe, Amazon, Brazil, France, Italy, India, Mexico, Africa, Migration, Crops, Drought, and War.

A war-torn region of the Democratic Republic of Congo that biologists visited for the first time in 47 years has yielded evidence of at least six new species, including two frogs and a bat (pictures included). Researchers say they also found many plants that may be new to science.