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Cabinet to consider conservation land mining
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 18th, 2010
TV New Zealand: Cabinet will today consider and possibly make decisions on proposals to mine on conservation land, Prime Minister John Key said. The government has proposed removing 7000 hectares of conservation land in the Coromandel, Great Barrier Island and Paparoa National Park from schedule four of the Crown Minerals Act, which protects it from mining, so valuable minerals can be extracted. However Labour has previously said that figure has been reduced to 3500ha. More than 30,000 ...
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Philippines: NGO promotes ducks as solution to global warming, rice insufficiency
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 18th, 2010
Business Mirror: While the world's leaders are scratching their heads and expensive think tanks wrack their brains trying to find answers to global warming and food security, a nongovernment organization here is propagating a solution that hit these two problems at one go, but has not talked much about its successes. Instead, the Philippine Agrarian Reform Foundation for National Development (Parfund) Inc. is letting its ducks do all the "quacking." Through its Rice-Ducks Integrated Farming ...
Drought is bad news for anglers in Scotland
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 18th, 2010
Scotsman: THE worst summer drought in more than 30 years has dried up some of Scotland's top salmon rivers, leading to unusually low catches and fish found with bellies rubbed raw by gravel. Anglers on major fishing beats say water levels are at their lowest since the long hot summers of the mid-1970s, stopping wild salmon and sea trout from getting up rivers. The water is so shallow in places on the North and South Esks that midstrADVERTISEMENTeam gravel banks are clearly visible and anglers ...
N.J. firms pouring billions into wind, solar ventures
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 18th, 2010
New Jersey: Investors chasing high returns like to get in early on the next big thing. For some pioneering firms in New Jersey, that means multimillion dollar bets on clean energy. From Short Hills to Princeton, public and private companies are committing their own capital, or that of large investors, to building wind and solar farms and developing other types of renewable power, as well as smart-grid and energy-storage technologies. Despite the worldwide recession, total venture capital ...
Canada: Clayoquot Under Siege
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 18th, 2010
Pacific Free Press: Those who fought to save the trees at Clayoquot and the tens of thousands of their fellow citizens – indeed environmental defenders from all over the globe - would, if they knew the truth, be appalled and ashamed and fighting mad at what has happened since 1994 when then Premier Mike Harcourt thought he had protected much of the Clayoquot old growth timber. The battle known as the "War In The Woods" solved little if anything when all's said and done. [For complete article reference ...
BP cleanup wages to be deducted from spill claims
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 18th, 2010
Associated Press: The federal administrator of a $20 billion Gulf oil spill compensation fund says the wages earned by people working on BP's cleanup will be deducted from their claims against the company. Kenneth Feinberg told The Associated Press on Sunday the fund is designed to compensate fishermen and others for their lost income. If BP PLC is already paying someone to help skim oil and perform other cleanup work, those wages will be subtracted from the amount they're eligible to claim from the ...
A Spill Into the Psyche, and a Respite
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 18th, 2010
New York Times: Out on the Gulf of Mexico, where the surface has come to resemble a floating intensive-care unit – all those hulking ships laden with specialized machinery, bobbing in wait for the next emergency – something good finally happened last week. If only provisionally, oil stopped spewing into the sea. As BP ended its string of futility and affixed a cap to the wellhead, the news comforted a battered American psyche, a counterpoint to a ceaseless narrative of plans going spectacularly ...
United States: Museum exhibit explores impact of shifting climate
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 18th, 2010
Chicago Daily Herald: The "Climate Change" exhibition features a collage portraying technological advances since the Industrial Revolution. An illuminated LED line runs through this timeline, portraying the corresponding rise in CO2 in the earth's atmosphere. What: "Climate Change" Where: Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, (312) 922-9410, fieldmuseum.org Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily through Nov. 28 Admission: $22, $18 seniors and students, $15 kids ages ...
Himalayan ice shrivels in global warming: exhibit
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 18th, 2010
Agence France-Presse: When British climbing legend George Mallory took his iconic 1921 photo of Mount Everest's north face, the mighty, river-shaped glacier snaking under his feet seemed eternal. Decades of pollution and global warming later, modern mountaineer David Breashears has reshot the picture at the same spot - and proved an alarming reality. Instead of the powerful, white, S-shaped sweep of ice witnessed by Mallory before he died on his conquest of Everest, the Main Rongbuk Glacier today is ...
The forgotten footprint: Nitrogen
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 18th, 2010
Times Argus: You may know your carbon footprint, but do you know your nitrogen footprint? Nitrous oxide is 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Nitrogen has been pegged as an over-looked cause of climate change and as a culprit in some of the most insidious forms of environmental pollution. "Nitrogen's role as a greenhouse gas is mostly as nitrous oxide," said Jeff Merrell, environmental analyst for the Vermont Agency of Natural Resource's Air Pollution Control Division. Nitrous oxide ...