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Last chance to save Bangladeshi forest: 90 percent of the Sal ecosystem is gone
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 29th, 2010
Mongabay: Considered the most threatened ecosystem in Bangladesh, the moist deciduous Sal forest (Shorea robusta) is on the verge of vanishing. In 1990 only 10 percent of the forest cover remained, down from 36 percent in 1985 according to statistics from the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). A new study in the online open-access journal Tropical Conservation Science looks at the threats posed to the Shal forest and ways in which it may still be saved. The Sal forest in central and ...
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US proposes to veto mountaintop removal coal mine
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 29th, 2010
Agence France-Presse: The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed an unprecedented veto to restrict or prohibit mining at a major proposed US mountaintop removal coal mining site. If the veto is finalized, it would invalidate a permit first issued in 2007 for the Army Corps of Engineers at the Spruce No. 1 surface mine in southern West Virginia. In explaining its decision, the EPA said Friday the Arch Coal Inc. mine would pollute surrounding water, fill over seven miles (11 kilometers) of ...
EPA to investigate environmental impact of BPA
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 29th, 2010
Associated Press: The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday it will investigate the impact of the chemical Bisphenol-A on the U.S. water supply and other parts of the environment. Federal regulators have been ramping up their scrutiny of the controversial plastic-hardener at the behest of scientists and activists who say it can interfere with infant growth and development. The EPA said in a statement it will begin measuring levels of BPA in drinking and ground water. More than 1 million ...
United States: Poplar project takes aim at waste, power
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 29th, 2010
Missoulian: Heath Carey planted some 300 poplar trees last year on a couple of acres at Missoula's wastewater treatment plant. Carey, a University of Montana graduate student in resource conservation, said he poured just about everything he had into the impoverished soil besides tears, and maybe some of those, too. "I ran a stake through my face when I was planting trees," Carey said. The trees drink a small gulp of the effluent flowing from the treatment plant into the Clark Fork ...
China’s drought-stricken south may get rain in next two days
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 29th, 2010
Bloomberg: China's drought-stricken south may get relief from rain over the next few days as a lingering dry spell, blamed on climate change, leaves more than 18 million people facing water shortages. The drought is likely to continue despite efforts to seed clouds and showers that will accompany an east-moving cold front, the China Meteorological Administration said yesterday in an e-mailed statement. Drizzle and sporadic rain may fall in parts of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi in the next two ...