Western states rebuff plan for Italian nuclear waste in Utah 4 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Eight Western states on Thursday rejected a company's plan to ship tons of radioactive waste from Italy for disposal in Utah, saying importing foreign loads would violate the group's rules. | |
 Chilean troops force volcano evacuations 16 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Police and soldiers cleared the last remaining people from the shadow of a Chilean volcano on Thursday after a strong, overnight explosion spewed glowing-hot rocks from its crater. | |
 Amazon under threat from cleaner air May 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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The Amazon rainforest, so crucial to the Earth’s climate system, is coming under threat from cleaner air say prominent UK and Brazilian climate scientists in the leading scientific journal Nature. | |
 EU still far from agreeing biofuel standards: diplomats May 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
The European Union remains far from agreeing on how to tighten its rules for using biofuels, diplomats said Wednesday amid growing opposition towards such forms of energy. | |
 First-of-its-kind 14-country study ranks consumers according to environmental behavior May 07, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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The National Geographic Society and the international polling firm GlobeScan today unveiled a new mechanism for measuring and comparing individual consumer behavior as it relates to the environment. “Greendex™ ... | |
 Web tool puts wildlife diseases on the map 17 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A new online map makes it possible, for the first time, to track news of disease outbreaks around the world that threaten the health of wildlife, domestic animals, and people. | |
Feedstock makes a difference in feeding distiller's grains 18 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
When it comes to using distiller’s grains in finishing rations of High Plains cattle, a Texas AgriLife Research scientist says the type of grain used makes all the difference. | |
 Reservoir larger than Manhattan planned to help Everglades May 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Around South Florida's vast sugar cane fields, where turtles grow to the size of basketballs and alligators own the marsh, the silence of the swamp is broken by the sound of rumbling trucks and explosions. | |
Ponds found to take up carbon like world's oceans May 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Research led by Iowa State University limnologist, or lake scientist, John Downing finds that ponds around the globe could absorb as much carbon as the world's oceans. | |
Keeping yields, profits and water quality high 22 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
One of the key questions facing agriculturalists in the 21st century is how to produce adequate amounts of food and farm income while protecting environmental quality. Diversified, low-external-input (LEI) farming systems ... | |
 Palm oil wiping out key orangutan habitat: activists May 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
One of the biggest populations of wild orangutans on Borneo will be extinct in three years without drastic measures to stop the expansion of palm oil plantations, conservationists said Wednesday. | |
 Fighting global warming — at the dinner table May 05, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Substituting chicken, fish, or vegetables for red meat just once a week can help combat climate change — even more dramatically than buying locally sourced food, according to scientists in Pennsylvania who ... | |
Study shows mercury levels from products decreasing, though still at dangerous levels May 06, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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A recent study shows that mercury releases from products in the U.S. declined dramatically between 1990 and 2005, but that they continue to be a significant source of environmental contamination. Mercury released from products ... | |
Sounding out Congo Red May 06, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Brightly colored dyes such as the shimmering Congo Red commonly used in silk clothing manufacture are notoriously difficult to dispose of in an environmentally benign way. | |
 IT gurus launch software cleanup of Estonia May 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Skype guru Ahti Heinla and Microlink and Delfi founder Rainer Nolvak put cutting-edge IT technology and 40,000 volunteers to work Saturday to clean-up the tiny Baltic Sea state of Estonia. | |
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