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Since 2003 at least 300,000 people have died in Darfur, Sudan, the victims of fighting, slaughter, starvation, malnutrition and disease. Two to three million people have been forced from their homes to wander a landscape withered by drought. Widely seen as a genocide perpetrated by the Janjaweed, armed partisans from the mostly Afro-Arab herding tribes in the north, upon the non-Muslim Fur, Zaghawa and Masalit farmers, the fighting in Darfur is about scarcity as much as ethnicity. As U.N. Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon told The Washington Post, the conflict in Darfur "grew at least in part from desertification, ecological degradation and a scarcity of resources, foremost among them water."

We sit down with Green Party leader Elizabeth May to discuss the Green Movement, its core concerns, and its place with the Canadian context.

"This weather does not belong to us. It belongs to someone else. If we don't have ice, we are going to die." With this prediction, an Inuit hunter sums up the dire situation for the indigenous peoples who live in northern and eastern Greenland. Nowhere on Earth, perhaps, is the evidence of climate change more apparent. The ice that covers 80 percent of the world's largest island is disappearing at the rate of 7 percent a year, a rate that has accelerated substantially in recent years. In some places, the ice shelf is already too thin to permit the Inuit to travel to traditional hunting grounds. The permafrost is also melting, producing a land that is boggy, unstable for buildings and difficult to cross by the traditional sleds. Worst-case scenarios predict that the carbon released by the melting permafrost could equal all the carbon already in the Earth's atmosphere. The Inuit, who survived for centuries by hunting seals and whales, are watching their way of life disappear before their very eyes.

Diagnosed with PTSD, CIA case officer Lucy Donovan jumps at the chance to get back into the field. Her main gripe is having to work with Navy SEAL Lieutenant Gus Atwater, her college sweetheart. Posing as husband and wife on a peace-keeping mission, she and Gus are sent deep into the jungles of Colombia. As the rebels grow suspect and danger builds, Lucy discovers her biggest fear isnt captivity - it's falling in love again. WWW.MARLISSMELTON.COM

Can the United States and China transcend their differences and come together in Peace? Written by sharee anne gorman 5/2/08

Douglas Rickard shares how President Ahmadinejad is mirroring Adolf Hitler, how history will record whether you take a stand or not and what to do next http://www.douglasrickard.com http://www.cufi.org

Learn how a humanitarian aid worker can help alleviate any suffering that may have been caused by a crisis.

Learn how a humanitarian aid worker can help alleviate any suffering that may have been caused by a crisis.