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Problems plague cleanup at Hanford nuclear waste site

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

USA Today - By Peter Eisler - Jan. 18 (Special Report) - Seven decades after scientists came here during World War II to create plutonium for the first atomic bomb, a new generation is struggling with an even more daunting task: cleaning up the radioactive mess.

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Planet Likely to Become Increasingly Hostile to Agriculture

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Scientific American - By Douglas Fischer - Dec. 07 (News Report) - YTo get a glimpse of the future, look to East Africa today. The Horn of Africa is in the midst of its worst drought in 60 years: Crop failures have left up to 10 million at risk of famine; social order has broken down in Somalia, with thousands of refugees streaming into Kenya; British Aid alone is feeding 2.4 million people across the region. That's a taste of what's to come, say scientists mapping the impact of a warming planet on agriculture and civilization.

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Canada kept detection of salmon virus secret

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Craig Welch - Nov. 30 (News Report) - A decade before this fall's salmon-virus scare, a Canadian government researcher said she found a similar virus in more than 100 wild fish from Alaska to Vancouver Island. But Canadian officials never told the public or scientists in the United States about those tests.

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Ethiopia plans ambitious resettlement of people buffeted by East Africa drought

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By William Davison - Aug. 02 (Special Report) - In Ethiopia's rain-starved eastern badlands, livestock is the sole asset for most. Swaddled in robes, pastoralist families traverse huge tracts searching for water and pasture for their herds, uprooting camps as they go. When seasonal rains fail, life becomes a battle for survival.

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Quest for renewable power turns back to water

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - Jul. 18 (News Report) - The powerful flow of the Mississippi River, which brought destruction to scores living near its flooded banks this spring, is viewed by a new generation of energy entrepreneurs as a reliable alternative way of generating electricity.

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Somalia crisis one of 'largest in decades'

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - Jul. 16 (News Report) - East Africa's worsening famine is one of the largest humanitarian crises in decades, a US official said, pledging "significant" aid. The US already pledged $5m on Friday to help Somali refugees on top of a previously budgeted $63m. Reuben Brigety, the de

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Former Interior secretary calls out Obama on the environment

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Neela Banerjee - Jun. 08 (News Report) - Babbitt, who served under President Clinton, said in an interview that he would lay out his concerns about the Republican environmental agenda and the Obama administration's response in a speech in Washington on Wednesday.

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Environmental groups challenge Shell drilling plan

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Harry R. Weber - May. 31 (News Report) - Environmental groups asked a federal appeals court Thursday to throw out a U.S. government decision to approve a Shell oil exploration plan that involves five proposed wells under more than 7,000 feet (2,133 meters) of water in the Gulf of Mexico. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Regulation and Enforcement approved the plan in May. The plan also includes three previously approved wells 72 miles (115 kilometers) off Louisiana. Defenders of Wildlife, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Natural Resources Defense Council claim in a petition filed in the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta that the decision violates the law and that the environment would be harmed if it stands.

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Bubbling sea signals coral threat

Sun, 29 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - By Richard Black - May. 29 (News) - Findings from a "natural laboratory" in seas off Papua New Guinea suggest that acidifying oceans will severely hit coral reefs by the end of the century.

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Growth promoters: If you can’t convince them, sue them

Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Maryn McKenna - May. 25 (News Report) - Several environmental groups filed a lawsuit today that alleges the FDA has acted unlawfully, ignoring its own statutory authority, by failing to curb growth-promoting antibiotic dosing despite decades of evidence that it stimulates the emergence of antibiotic resistance, undermining medical treatment and harming human health.

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The Fight Over Fracking: Josh Fox vs. Big Gas

Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Rolling Stone - By Alexander Zaitchik - May. 17 (News Report) - One afternoon in early April, Josh Fox sits in a caf near his Brooklyn home and unfurls a peculiar map of the United States.

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Artifical Floating Islands Revive Aquatic Dead Zones

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Dan Ferber - Apr. 26 (Special Report) - Sometimes, all a polluted lake needs is a little love from an island—a “floating treatment wetland.” Load soil or sod onto a loofah-like mesh of plastic (made from recycled carpet and water bottles, of course), float it, add seeds, and let the plants take over. Their roots become home to biofilms that gobble nitrates and phosphates, denying those nutrients to algal blooms. Small critters eat the biofilms, fish eat the critters, and the water gradually gets cleaner

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A City Built on Oil Discovers How Precious Its Water Can Be

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Kate Galbraith - Apr. 22 (News Report) - All of Texas is extremely dry, and the parched vegetation is fueling huge wildfires across the state ...the situation in the Permian Basin is particularly serious. Without significant rain, all three reservoirs may be dry by January 2013...The region’s groundwater, in fact, has its own problems.

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Pennsylvania: 'ground zero' of the US boom

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Suzanne Goldenberg - Apr. 21 (News Report) - Last June, Tony Zaffuto arrived at his fieldstone cabin in the forested hills of Pennsylvania's SB Elliott state park, to find a notice pinned on the front door: "Danger. Do not occupy dwelling." A blow-out at a gas well in another popular camping spot, in the woods of the Punxsutawney hunt club, also in Clearfield County, had shot a 75-foot combustible gusher of tas and toxic waste water into the air. It took the gas company, EOG, 16 hours to control the well, and authorities had to carry out an evacuation. It was not Zaffuto's first encounter with the dangers of natural gas drilling. In 2009, the spring that was the cabin's only source of water was contaminated by toxic waste from a pond serving the gas wells.

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Japan expands nuclear evacuation, stops radiated water

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Yoko Kubota, Yoko Nishikawa - Apr. 11 (News) - Japan expanded the evacuation zone around a crippled nuclear plant to avoid exposing residents to high levels of accumulated radiation, as the struggle to contain the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl entered its second month.

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Reactor Core At Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Plant May Have Been Breached

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Mar. 25 (News Report) - Japan's Self-Defense Force's members and others in protective gear help to transfer workers who stepped into contaminated water on Thursday during their operation at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, at a hospital in Fukushima, northern Japan Friday,

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Radiation from Fukushima exceeds Three Mile Island

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Asahi - Mar. 25 (News Report) - Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, crippled by the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, has discharged more radiation than the infamous Three Mile Island nuclear plant in the United States, according to calculations by the central government.

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Beaked whales 'scared' by sonar

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - By Ella Davies - Mar. 15 (News Report) - Beaked whales are disturbed by military sonar, according to real-time data collected by scientists.

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EPA reverses Bush-era water safety standards, will regulate contaminants

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Brian Vastag - Feb. 03 (News Report) - The Environmental Protection Agency reversed Bush administration drinking water policies Wednesday, announcing that it will regulate perchlorate, a component of rocket fuel, and 16 other chemicals - called volatile organic compounds - that can cause cancer at high enough doses.

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Agency Revokes Permit for Major Coal Mining Project

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By John M. Broder - Jan. 13 (News Report) - The Environmental Protection Agency revoked the permit for one of the nation’s largest mountaintop-removal coal mining projects on Thursday, saying the mine would have done unacceptable damage to rivers, wildlife and communities in West Virginia.

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Few mountaintop mines redeveloped

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Dylan Lovan - Jan. 01 (News Report) - Of the more than 345,700 acres of mining lands in eastern Kentucky that have been approved for a specific post-mining purpose, just over 6,300 acres, or about 1.8 percent, have been designated for "commercial," "industrial" or "residential" developments, according to data provided by the state Department of Natural Resources.

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Fixes: Clean Water at No Cost? Just Add Carbon Credits

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By TINA ROSENBERG - Nov. 16 (News Report) - The villages of Africa and South Asia are littered with the ghosts of water projects past. …Water systems need to function all day, every day, forever. Now there’s a new way to save water projects from an early death: make clean water a for-profit business, charging people an unusual price: zero.

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Earth Is Parched Where Syrian Farms Thrived

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Robert F. Worth - Oct. 14 (News) - The farmlands spreading north and east of this Euphrates River town were once the breadbasket of the region, a vast expanse of golden wheat fields and bucolic sheep herds. Now, after four consecutive years of drought, this heartland of the Fertile Crescent — including much of neighboring Iraq — appears to be turning barren, climate scientists say.

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How toxic is Hungary's red sludge?

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - By Olivia Lang - Oct. 07 (News Report) - The sludge, which contains a mix of metal oxides, is now making its way towards the Danube, Europe's second-longest river. But what exactly is the sludge, and how hazardous is it to humans? The sludge is a by-product from the early stage of aluminium production, which leaked from storage reservoirs. As part of the process, bauxite, the raw material, is taken out of the ground and washed with sodium hydroxide. This produces alumina, which is processed further, and waste, which is composed of solid impurities, heavy metals, and the chemicals used as processing agents.

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NewsTrust - Water - Most Recent Stories: News (Mainstream)

Problems plague cleanup at Hanford nuclear waste site

Planet Likely to Become Increasingly Hostile to Agriculture

Canada kept detection of salmon virus secret

Ethiopia plans ambitious resettlement of people buffeted by East Africa drought

Quest for renewable power turns back to water

Somalia crisis one of 'largest in decades'

Former Interior secretary calls out Obama on the environment

Environmental groups challenge Shell drilling plan

Bubbling sea signals coral threat

Growth promoters: If you can’t convince them, sue them

The Fight Over Fracking: Josh Fox vs. Big Gas

Artifical Floating Islands Revive Aquatic Dead Zones

A City Built on Oil Discovers How Precious Its Water Can Be

Pennsylvania: 'ground zero' of the US boom

Japan expands nuclear evacuation, stops radiated water

More questions than answers about Japan nuclear crisis

Reactor Core At Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Plant May Have Been Breached

Radiation from Fukushima exceeds Three Mile Island

Beaked whales 'scared' by sonar

EPA reverses Bush-era water safety standards, will regulate contaminants

Agency Revokes Permit for Major Coal Mining Project

Few mountaintop mines redeveloped

Fixes: Clean Water at No Cost? Just Add Carbon Credits

Earth Is Parched Where Syrian Farms Thrived

How toxic is Hungary's red sludge?