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Texas driller to pay $4.1M over tainted Pa. water
Posted by Associated P4ess: None Given on December 16th, 2010
Associated P4ess: The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has dropped its plan to force a Houston-based drilling company to pay nearly $12 million to extend a public water line to residents whose wells have been contaminated with methane gas.
Environmental regulators say Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. instead will pay residents a total of $4.1 million under a settlement announced late Wednesday. The company also has agreed to pay to install whole-house gas mitigation systems in each of the 19 affected...
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Heat shield for wheat, rice and fish
Posted by Calcutta Telegraph: G.S. Mudur on December 16th, 2010
Calcutta Telegraph: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs today approved a plan by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research to prepare the nation's crops, livestock and fisheries for rising temperatures and other impacts of climate change.
The National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture will receive Rs 350 crore for multiple projects -- from developing heat-tolerant rice and wheat to tracking the spawning behaviour of marine and freshwater fish amid rising temperatures.
The programme will also...
Ancient Forest Emerges Mummified from the Arctic: Clues to Future Warming Impact
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 16th, 2010
ScienceDaily: The northernmost mummified forest ever found in Canada is revealing how plants struggled to endure a long-ago global cooling.
Researchers believe the trees -- buried by a landslide and exquisitely preserved 2 to 8 million years ago -- will help them predict how today's Arctic will respond to global warming.
They also suspect that many more mummified forests could emerge across North America as Arctic ice continues to melt. As the wood is exposed and begins to rot, it could release significant...