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South Africa Relocates Rhinos After Record Number Were Poached in 2014
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 23rd, 2015
Yale Environment 360: Unable to curb poaching of rhinos within its borders, the South African government has relocated 100 rhinos to neighboring countries in an effort to stem the illegal slaughter of the animals, Reuters reports. For security reasons, officials did not reveal to which countries the rhinos had been relocated. An additional 56 rhinos were moved from poaching hotspots within South Africa's Kruger National Park — where two-thirds of the killings happen — to an "intensive protection zone" within Kruger, officials...
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15 Health Problems Linked to Monsanto’s Roundup
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on January 23rd, 2015
EcoWatch: Monsanto invented the herbicide glyphosate and brought it to market under the trade name Roundup in 1974, after DDT was banned. But it wasn’t until the late 1990s that the use of Roundup surged, thanks to Monsanto’s ingenious marketing strategy. The strategy? Genetically engineer seeds to grow food crops that could tolerate high doses of Roundup. With the introduction of these new GE seeds, farmers could now easily control weeds on their corn, soy, cotton, canola, sugar beets and alfalfa crops—crops...
Why Is It Legal to Cause Fracking Earthquakes In Colorado?
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on January 23rd, 2015
EcoWatch: You people are crazy. Idiots and morons who have no responsibility for anything they do to our Earth. They some how get a free pass to destroy our planet. The wildlife is dying quickly. The Ocean is so sick. HUMANS have done this. America get out of the greed Machine. It won`t help your children when there is no food or water. Please everyone wake up and get out of your bubble. Try to find real information not stupid science. Rigged science. You will destroy us all. The few are destroying what we...
Worst Fracking Wastewater Spill North Dakota Leaks 3 Million Gallons Into River
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on January 23rd, 2015
EcoWatch: Three million gallons of brine, a salty, toxic byproduct of oil and natural gas production—also known as fracking wastewater—spilled from a leaking pipe in western North Dakota. State officials say it’s the worst spill of its kind since the fracking boom began in the state. The spill was reported 17 days ago when Operator Summit Midstream Partners found a toxic leak of salty drilling waste from a pipeline in the heart of the Bakken oil boom. Officials say there’s no immediate threat to human health...
Anti-Drilling Group Settles Surveillance Litigation with Pennsyvania
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 23rd, 2015
National Public Radio: "We believe that collecting and disseminating information about groups engaged in lawful activities can and does have a chilling effect upon freedom of speech," says Gas Drilling Awareness Coalition vice president Diane Dreier.
An anti-gas drilling group from northeastern Pennsylvania has reached a settlement agreement with state law enforcement officials, after it accused them of conducting unconstitutional surveillance on its members.
The litigation stems from 2011 when the Pennsylvania Emergency...
Barriers Set Up, Water Being Testing at North Dakota Site of 3M Gallon Saltwater Spill
Posted by Associated Press: Regina Garcia Cano and James Macpherson on January 23rd, 2015
Associated Press: Earthen barriers have been set up across a creek and water was being tested Thursday around the site of a nearly 3 million-gallon leak of saltwater generated by oil drilling, the largest spill of its kind during North Dakota's current oil rush.
The berms were built at Blacktail Creek to prevent potentially contaminated water from flowing out of the creek and into a bigger body of water that eventually leads into the Missouri River.
"So when the ice starts to melt if there's any oil or contaminated...
Fukushima Operator to Miss Deadline on Decontaminating Water
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 23rd, 2015
Reuters: The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co, said it would not be able to meet a self-imposed deadline to decontaminate water containing highly radioactive substances by the end of March.
The admission by the utility known as Tepco is another setback in its struggle to cope with the contaminated water, which is mostly contained in hastily constructed tanks.
Tepco President Naomi Hirose visited officials at the Nuclear Regulation Authority on Friday to report...
Three Minutes Away from Doomsday
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 23rd, 2015
Inter Press Service: Unchecked climate change and the nuclear arms race have propelled the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock forward two minutes closer to midnight, from its 2012 placement of five minutes to midnight.
The decision was announced in Washington DC by members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS), the body behind the calculations and creation of the 1947 Clock of Doom."The simple truth on nuclear weapons is that they are inconsistent with civilisation." -- Alyn Ware
The last time the clock...