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Colorado’s Historic Flooding Claims Four Lives
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on September 14th, 2013
Environment News Service: Four people have died and at least 80 others are unaccounted for today as heavy rain adds to the flood waters that have forced the evacuation of some areas of Boulder and several nearby towns. The National Weather Service said Boulder has had 13.55 inches of rain since the storm began. Torrential rain and flooding is affecting a 150-mile stretch of the state`s Front Range.
Boulder officials today found the body of a woman who was washed away; Thursday they recovered the body of her male companion....
One-Third of World’s Food Goes to Waste
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on September 13th, 2013
Environment News Service: One-third of all the world's food is wasted every year at enormous economic and environmental cost, finds a United Nations report released Wednesday.
The report, "Food Wastage Footprint: Impacts on Natural Resources," is the first study to analyze the impacts of global food wastage from an environmental perspective, looking at its consequences for the climate, water and land use, and biodiversity.
The waste of 1.3 billion tons of food each year is damaging to the environment and causes economic...
Rim Fire Suppression Costs Exceed $100 million
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on September 10th, 2013
Environment News Service: The cost for battling a three-week old wildfire both within and outside Yosemite National Park has reached $100.4 million. Although fire officials say the Rim Fire is 80 percent contained, the fire has burned 254,000 acres, or 398 square miles, and is still intensifing within the containment area.
Hot and extremely dry conditions combined with shifting winds and low humidity continue to plague firefighters. U.S. Forest Service officials say more than 3,500 personnel continue to patrol, mop-up,...
Groups Battle Pesticides, GE Crops on U.S. Wildlife Refuges
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on September 3rd, 2013
Environment News Service: The use of pesticides and the planting of genetically engineered crops on U.S. national wildlife refuges are illegal and damaging to the environment, say four advocacy groups who have filed a federal lawsuit to halt these practices on national wildlife refuges across the Midwest.
The Center for Food Safety, Beyond Pesticides, Sierra Club and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, filed the lawsuit August 27 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California....
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Comments Off on Groups Battle Pesticides, GE Crops on U.S. Wildlife RefugesDeep Ice Canyon Found Far Below Greenland Surface
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on August 30th, 2013
Environment News Service: Using ice-penetrating radar, scientists have discovered a long, deep canyon that exists a mile beneath the Greenland ice sheet, data from a NASA airborne science mission and an international research team reveals.
The scientific team identified a continuous bedrock canyon that extends from almost the center of the island and ends at its northern extremity in a deep fjord connecting to the Arctic ocean.
The canyon looks like a winding river channel at least 460 miles (750 kilometers) long, making...
Keystone XL Pipeline “Flunks Climate Test,” New Report
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on August 29th, 2013
Environment News Service: Environmental advocates delivered a report on the climate effects of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline to President Barack Obama today, with the intention of giving the President all the information he needs to reject the pipeline.
Sierra Club and Oil Change International compiled the report, which finds that the bitumen produced from the oil sands of northern Alberta would push climate change into overdrive. The report concludes that the Keystone XL pipeline is the "linchpin" of further tar...
Entergy to Close Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on August 27th, 2013
Environment News Service: Entergy Corporation today said it plans to close and decommission its Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station in Vernon, Vermont. The station is expected to cease power production after its current fuel cycle and move to safe shutdown in the fourth quarter of 2014.
Anti-nuclear activists greeted the news with delight. After years of protests, conferences and lawsuits, the nuclear plant that has worried them will be shuttered.
The nonprofit group Beyond Nuclear commented, "The State of the Vermont,...
San Francisco Emergency Called as Rim Fire Burns Power Lines
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on August 24th, 2013
Environment News Service: A raging wildfire spreading into Yosemite National Park has damaged electricity infrastructure serving the city of San Francisco 200 miles to the west, forcing California Governor Jerry Brown to declare a State of Emergency in the city.
In his emergency proclamation, Governor Brown said, "The wildfires that started in Tuolumne County have caused damage electric infrastructure serving San Francisco and now threaten damage to property, equipment and resources of the San Francisco Public Utility...
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Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on August 21st, 2013
Environment News Service: Japan`s Nuclear Regulation Authority now says a leak of radioactive water from a tank at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant Monday is a "serious incident" not just an "anomaly" as it was originally classified on an international scale.
On Monday morning, an employee of the plant`s owner/operator Tokyo Electric Power Company on patrol found water leaking from a drain valve of a tank dike on a hillside near reactor No 4 at the power station, which has been shut down and is being decommissioned....
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Japan: New Fukushima Radioactive Leak Worst Since Original AccidentCourt Forces Yucca Mtn. Decision on U.S. Nuclear Regulators
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on August 13th, 2013
Environment News Service: A federal appeals court ruled today that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission can no longer delay a decision on whether or not to grant a permit to the stalled nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.
In a 2-1 decision, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ordered the NRC to make up its mind promptly. "The Nuclear Regulatory Commission must promptly continue with the legally mandated licensing process," wrote Judge Brett Kavanaugh for the...
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