Warming could push sea levels up six meters by 2100

Polar ice sheets are melting faster than expected and could push sea levels up as much as six meters by 2100, scientists warn in two new studies.


Polar ice sheets are melting faster than expected and could push sea levels up as much as six meters by 2100, scientists warn in two new studies.

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Compton's Cafeteria Riots Commemoration kick-off tonight


A Commemoration of the 40th Year Anniversary of the Compton Cafeteria Riots will be celebrated throughout the Bay Area in 2006. Three years before the famous rioting at New York's Stonewall Inn, a group of transgender women and gay street-hustlers fought back for the first time in history against everyday police harassment. This was known as the Riot at Gene

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Human Rights Groups Condemn Nigeria Anti-Gay Measure
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff

(New York City) In advance of a planned state visit to the US next week 16 human rights groups are telling Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo to withdraw legislation that would allow for the imprisonment of people in same-sex relationships and leaders of LGBT advocacy groups.