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Over 100 ‘Clean Air Ambassadors’ Call On Congress To Clean Up Its Act
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17.5.2013 |
Think Progres |
| Over 100 ‘Clean Air Ambassadors’ Call On Congress To Clean Up Its Act |
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Climate change brings disease threat for polar bears
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15.5.2013 |
New Scientist: Health |
| Climate change brings disease threat for polar bears |
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'Green News Report' - May 9, 2013
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10.5.2013 |
BradBlog |
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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Senate GOP walks out, obstructs Obama's EPA nominee; OMB says EPA regulations pay off 10 to 1; Honeybee losses accelerate in US while feds stall on action; Another coal export terminal bites the dust in OR; PLUS: Shocker: Consumer Reports has a new all-time favorite car... ... |
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Insecticide spraying will be expanded to control pest caterpillar
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9.5.2013 |
The Guardian -- World Latest |
| A new £1.5m fund will be spent on a pilot project to increase pesticide spraying to control the oak processionary moth
Spraying of insecticide on oak trees will be increased to eradicate a pest moth that causes health problems and can strip the trees bare, under a new £1.5m government fund announced on Thursday.
The escalation of efforts to control the oak processionary moth ( Thaumetopoea processionea ) follows the Forestry Commission announcement this week that it will use a helicopter in May to blanket-spray a woodland in West Berkshire, the first time aerial spraying will have been used .
The extra funding will be spent on a pilot project to expand spraying in and around areas where the moth's caterpillars have been found around south and south-west London, and on trees where infestations are less obvious.
Lord de Mauley, parliamentary under secretary at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), said: "Tree health is a priority for us and this pest not ... |
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Drumbeat: May 8, 2013
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8.5.2013 |
The Oil Drum |
| Shale Oil and Gas: The Contrarian View
No one is questioning the fact that we have either reached or will soon reach “peak oil”; that existing fields are being depleted at the rapid rate of 7 percent a year, and that the search is on for “unconventional oil” as alternative forms of energy are slow to reach critical mass.
There are many kinds of “unconventional oil” – meaning hydrocarbons that are not found in fluid form, but that can be “fluidised” in a straightforward way (unlike coal, for instance). These resources include Venezuelan heavy oil and Canadian tar sands.
But the big change in the last two decades is shale gas and “tight oil” – a liquid, trapped in shale (rock), where it doesn’t flow naturally but can be extracted by horizontal drilling and “fracking”. Fracking uses high-pressure water to fracture the shale and then chemicals that reduce the viscosity of the oil trapped in the interstices of the rock and allow it to flow.
After working 37 years in the coal mines of West ... |
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Voyageurs Park moose population holding steady, bucking trend
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7.5.2013 |
Minnesota Public Radio: Science |
The moose population at Voyageurs National Park near International Falls is holding relatively steady, wildlife biologists announced Tuesday. |
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Voyageurs Moose Population Holding Steady
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7.5.2013 |
WCCO: National |
 Wildlife biologists say the moose population is holding relatively steady in Voyageurs National Park in north-central Minnesota. |
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Richard Haass: The second American Century? It's here
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4.5.2013 |
Twincities.com: Opinion |
| It was in 1941 that Henry Luce exhorted his countrymen to eschew isolationism, enter the war and make the 20th century the first great American century. Fulfilling his vision, the United States managed a historic trifecta, prevailing in two world wars and the subsequent Cold War. |
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The giants of the green world that profit from the planet's destruction | Naomi Klein
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3.5.2013 |
The Guardian -- World Latest |
| A new movement has erupted demanding divestment from fossil fuel polluters – and Big Green is in their sights
The movement demanding that public interest institutions divest their holdings from fossil fuels is on a serious roll. Chapters have opened up in more than 100 US cities and states as well as on more than 300 campuses, where students are holding protests, debates and sit-ins to pressure their to rid their endowments of oil, gas and coal holdings. And under the " Fossil Free UK " banner, the movement is now crossing the Atlantic, with a major push planned by People & Planet for this summer. Some schools, including University College London, have decided not to wait and already have active divestment campaigns.
Though officially launched just six months ago, the movement can already claim some provisional victories: four US colleges have announced their intention to divest their endowments from fossil fuel stocks and bonds and, in late April, 10 US cities made similar commitments, ... |
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America's Dumbest Congressman melting down before our eyes
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1.5.2013 |
NewsTrust Yahoo Pipes Feed |
| What does the Obama got in its pocketses?
Is it tiny Muslimses?
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX)—who has spent the weeks following the bombing arguing that Obama’s “political correctness” prevented the FBI from stopping the attacks—appeared on the Glenn Beck radio show to argue that Holder’s history of defending terrorists allowed the judge to Mirandize Tsarnaev:
GOHMERT: Think about it, when your attorney general spent more of his legal career helping terrorists than defending the country, then you know we all have certain biases and lean certain ways. Gohmert then went on to reiterate his belief that the Obama administration is guided by the Muslim Brotherhood. “[The administration] know who’s in there advising them,” Gohmert said, “either they lie under oath or they do know the extent of Muslim Brotherhood infiltration into our government.”
While addressing the FBI’s work in Boston, Gohmert said that it was “amazing” that the FBI was able to do any investigative work at all because, ... |
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EIA: Extending Current Energy Policies Would Keep U.S. Carbon Pollution Emissions Flat Through 2040
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30.4.2013 |
Think Progres |
| EIA: Extending Current Energy Policies Would Keep U.S. Carbon Pollution Emissions Flat Through 2040 |
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Climate change compounds rising threats to koala
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30.4.2013 |
The Guardian -- World Latest |
| Australia's iconic marsupial is at risk from shrinking habitats, road traffic and dog attacks – and increasingly, global warming
Australia's iconic marsupial is under threat. Formerly hunted almost to extinction for their woolly coats, koalas are now struggling to survive as habitat destruction caused by droughts and bushfires, land clearing for agriculture and logging, and mining and urban development conspire against this cuddly creature.
In the past 20 years, the koala population has significantly declined, dropping by 40 percent in the state of Queensland and by a third in New South Wales (NSW). The Australian Koala Foundation (AKF) estimates that there are between 45,000 and 90,000 koalas left in the wild.
Shrinking habitat and climate change is compounding the risk of disease, while attacks from feral and domestic dogs and road accidents add to a long list of risks that this arboreal mammal faces as it moves across the landscape in search of food.
It is estimated that around ... |
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Learning hunting techniques, if you are a humpback whale
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25.4.2013 |
The Earth Times Online Newspaper - Health News |
| New research has shown that humpback whales are able to pass on hunting techniques to each other. The research published in Science has shown that humpbacks learn different techniques to hunt from one another. |
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25th April - World Malaria Day
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25.4.2013 |
The Earth Times Online Newspaper - Environment News |
| World Malaria Day 2013: According to latest estimates, malaria kills between 2,000 and 3,000 people every day, with between 85% and 90% of deaths occurring in sub-Saharan Africa. It is spread by bites from mosquitoes but as has happened in Europe and North America, the disease could effectively be wiped out by clearing the areas where mosquitoes breed. Hence, malaria is completely preventable and it is a disgrace that more is not being done in the world to eliminate it. |
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Drumbeat: April 24, 2013
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24.4.2013 |
The Oil Drum |
| Egypt to issue schedule next month for gradual fuel subsidy cuts
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt aims next month to issue a schedule of gradual rises in the subsidised prices various industries pay for fuel, to bring them near to world levels in four years, its trade and industry minister said.
A reduction in energy subsidies is widely seen as an important step towards allowing Egypt to secure a $4.8 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to shore up its finances.
Egypt spends around a fifth of its budget on fuel subsidies, and the government is under pressure to reduce them to plug a deficit that has mushroomed since the popular uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak in early 2011.
A growing population and a falling currency are expected to push the energy subsidy bill to more than 120 billion Egyptian pounds ($17.4 billion) in the financial year that ends in June.
World energy demand will grow by 36 percent by 2030, senior economist at the British company BP Lev Freinkman told ... |
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Green diary rescue: Stopping Keystone XL with public comments
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21.4.2013 |
Daily Kos |
| Every week Daily Kos diarists write dozens of environmentally related posts. Many don't get the readership they deserve. Helping improve the odds is the motivation behind the Green Diary Rescue. In the past seven years, there have been 222 of these spotlighting more than 12,300 eco-diaries. Below are categorized links and excerpts to 84 more that appeared in the past seven days. That makes for lots of good reading during the spare moments of your weekend. [ Disclaimer: Inclusion of a diary in the rescue does not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of it.]
Instead of choosing a single exceptional Green diary this week, I picked instead the ongoing blogathon organized by Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse to get spur an outpouring of public comments regarding the Keystone XL pipeline. The comments are part of a mandated process that encourages citizens to respond to the State Department's Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on proposal to construct the northern leg ... |
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Historic human remains yield epigenetic tags
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18.4.2013 |
New Scientist: Sex and Cloning |
| Historic human remains yield epigenetic tags |
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Eureka: How the Pre-Penicillin Era Could Help Combat Antibiotic Resistance
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16.4.2013 |
NY Times: Magazine |
| Eureka: How the Pre-Penicillin Era Could Help Combat Antibiotic Resistance |
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Urban farming
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11.4.2013 |
Salt Lake Tribune |
| Published Apr 11, 2013 01:01AM MDT
In “Welcome to Tijuana!” (Forum, April 3), Mike Hughes portrays the smell of neighborhood farm animals as negative and incongruent with American life. However, nothing affects public health in America more than food. In heart disease, cancer, stroke and diabetes, diet is a primary cause. The root of this hazardous diet is our industrial agriculture system. It has been a major contributor to climate change, enabled the obesity epidemic, poisoned countless volumes of land and water, generated doze... ... |
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Midday open thread
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11.4.2013 |
Daily Kos |
| Today's comic by Jen Sorenson is Chain of fools :
Pro-Obama group Organizing for Action lost a bid to take over the domain name organizingforaction.net from a computer technician in Colorado, the LA Times reports.
The technician, Derek Bovard, registered the name in January and configured it so that all visitors were immediately redirected to the web site of the National Rifle Association.
Air pollution is an underestimated scourge that kills far more people than AIDS and malaria and a shift to cleaner energy could easily halve the toll by 2030, U.N. officials said on Tuesday.
Investments in solar, wind or hydropower would benefit both human health and a drive by almost 200 nations to slow climate change, blamed mainly on a build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from use of fossil fuels, they said.
"Air pollution is causing more deaths than HIV or malaria combined," Kandeh Yumkella, director general of the U.N. Industrial Development Organization, told a conference in Oslo ... |
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