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Report: Climate Change Could Wipe Historic Jamestown Off the Map
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 1st, 2010
AOL News: Jamestown, Va., the site of the first permanent English colony in what became the United States, could be wiped off the map by climate change, researchers warned today. As the polar ice caps melt, rising sea levels could completely swamp the historical location that has stood as an icon of American history for the past 400 years, according to a new study by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization. Adrin Snider, Newport News Daily ...
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Floods swamp south Sudan region
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 1st, 2010
BBC: Some 57,000 people have been forced from their homes because of dramatic floods in south-western Sudan over the past month, health officials say. Heavy rains have left Aweil, the main town of Northern Bahr al-Ghazal province, largely under water. A BBC correspondent says the floods pose another challenge to the already delayed voter registration. Southern Sudan is voting on whether to secede from the north in a referendum in January. Challenge The BBC's ...
U.S. test shows water problem near natgas drill site
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 1st, 2010
Reuters: U.S. government officials urged residents of a Wyoming farming community near natural gas drilling sites not to use private well water for drinking or cooking because of chemical contamination. "Sample results indicate that the presence of petroleum hydrocarbons and other chemical compounds in groundwater represents a drinking water concern," the Environmental Protection Agency said in a statement about tests of 19 water wells around the town of Pavillion. The Wyoming ...
Enbridge wants to work on Lake Michigan pipeline
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 1st, 2010
AP: Enbridge Energy Partners, the company whose pipeline caused a major oil spill in the Kalamazoo River five weeks ago, said Wednesday its plan to reinforce its oil pipelines under Lake Michigan is part of a routine maintenance program. Enbridge has filed for a state permit that would allow the company to add more anchoring braces to two pipelines along the lake bottom in the Straits of Mackinac between Mackinac County in the Upper Peninsula and Emmet County in the Lower Peninsula. The ...
Feds fail to use land for solar power
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 1st, 2010
AP: Not a light bulb's worth of solar electricity has been produced on the millions of acres of public desert set aside for it. Not one project to build glimmering solar farms has even broken ground. Instead, five years after federal land managers opened up stretches of the Southwest to developers, vast tracts still sit idle. An Associated Press examination of U.S. Bureau of Land Management records and interviews with agency officials shows that the BLM operated a first-come, ...
Hurricanes Could Carry Gulf “Oil” Inland
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 1st, 2010
National Geographic: Could pollutants from the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico end up as far north as New England? That could happen if a hurricane or tropical storm hits the Gulf region and moves northward. Siddhartha Mitra, Geochemist, East Carolina University "On land, no one's really though about the effect of material coming over from the ocean, marine areas onto land." Geochemist Sid Mitra, from East Carolina University, is studying how far hydrocarbons, released as the oil ...