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Oil Spill Should Be A Wake-up Call

Posted by Wolf on Sunday, 17 July 2011 in Earth Violators

We’re now two weeks into the cleanup of the ExxonMobil oil spill in the Yellowstone River near Billings, and while we still don’t have all the answers — among them, exactly why the spill strarted, how much oil it actually involved and how much more effort the cleanup will take — a few things have be...

Locals Survey The Yellowstone Oil Spill

Posted by Wolf on Sunday, 17 July 2011 in Earth Violators

While ExxonMobil and government officials worked Saturday to clear a ruptured pipeline underneath the Yellowstone River of any residual oil, a small group of boaters began their own weeks-long survey of the river in an effort to document areas affected by the spill. Called the Oily River Rendezvous...

Antarctic Again to Be Whaling Battleground

Posted by grant on Saturday, 16 July 2011 in Wildlife Conservation

ST. HELIER, Jersey, UK, July 12, 2011 (ENS) - The seas around Antarctica will be the scene of confrontations over whaling again this year. Japan will send its whaling fleet to the Antarctic again, a senior Japanese official has told BBC News, and the Sea Shepherd's anti-whaling vessels will be ther...

Why The Colorado River Stopped Flowing

Posted by lillianbarbeito on Saturday, 16 July 2011 in Water Conservation

Known by some as "America's Nile," the Colorado River stretches about 1,450 miles across seven states and two countries — and photographer Peter McBride has traveled the entire thing, shooting photos for his new book, The Colorado River: Flowing Through Conflict. McBride explains the conflict in an...

Pete McBride next to an abandoned fishing boat on the dried up Colorado River delta in Mexico.

BP Oil Still Washing Ashore One Year After Spill

Posted by bchristo on Friday, 15 July 2011 in Earth Violators

Crude oil continues to wash ashore along the Gulf of Mexico coast a year after BP Plc (BP/) stopped the flow from its damaged Macondo well, which caused the worst U.S. offshore spill, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. About 491 miles (790 kilometers) of coastline in Louisian...

Loss of large predators disrupting multiple plant, animal and human ecosystems

Posted by grant on Friday, 15 July 2011 in Wildlife Conservation

The enormous decline of large, apex predators and "consumers" ranging from wolves to lions, sharks and sea otters may represent the most powerful impacts humans have ever had on Earth's ecosystems, a group of 24 researchers concluded today in a new report in the journal Science. The decline of such...

Elusive Snow Leopards Thrive in Surprising Spot

Posted by Wolf on Friday, 15 July 2011 in Animals

Thanks to the vigilant eye of camera traps stationed high in Afghanistan's remote northeast mountains, researchers have uncovered exciting news: A population of endangered snow leopards, one of the most elusive big cats on the planet, is thriving in the region. The big cats live among the dramatic ...

Nike, Adidas, Puma 'using suppliers pouring toxic chemicals into China's rivers'

Posted by grant on Thursday, 14 July 2011 in Earth Violators

Some of the world's most famous clothing brands, including Nike, Adidas Puma, and H&M are using suppliers that pour toxic chemicals into China's rivers, the environmental pressure group Greenpeace has claimed. By Peter Foster, Beijing In a year-long investigation, undercover activists collecte...

Amazon Dammed

Posted by henryfool on Thursday, 14 July 2011 in Earth Violators

Sixty Minutes story on the damming of the Amazon Amazon dammed - Images by Cristina Mittermeier Reporter: Allison LangdonProducers: Stephen Rice, Julia Timms, Jo Townsend link to Sixty Minutes video There are few places on Earth quite as isolated or as spectacular as the Amazon. Venture deep i...

Global Warming is a Global Problem

Posted by EarthDude on Wednesday, 13 July 2011 in Climate Change

Citizens of developed economies are used to being shielded from the environmental or human impacts of the products and services they use every day. We have "clever" marketing people to thank for this ignorance. We don't think about a coalmine or gas plant when we flick a light switch. All we s...

To Curb Driving, Cities Cut Down on Car Parking

Posted by henryfool on Wednesday, 13 July 2011 in Transportation

Despite downtown business fears, some urban centers embrace “mini-parks.” Josie GarthwaiteFor National Geographic News Bit by bit, for the past 40 years, the city of Copenhagen has done something revolutionary: The Danish capital has reduced its parking supply. Cutting the total number of parking ...

Radioactive meat in Japan

Posted by grant on Wednesday, 13 July 2011 in Food

A Japanese health official downplayed the dangers Tuesday after cesium contaminated meat from six Fukushima cows was delivered to Japanese markets and probably ingested. Goshi Hosono, state minister in charge of consumer affairs and food-safety, said he hoped to head off any overreactions. "If we ...

Big Coal Claims that Inbreeding, Not Mining, is to Blame for Birth Defects

Posted by henryfool on Wednesday, 13 July 2011 in Mining

Last month, when coal execs read the report linking birth defects to mountaintop removal mining, they weren't exactly thrilled. One rebuttal, penned by four attorneys with the firm Crowell & Moring, which represents the National Mining Association, accused the study's authors of using cherry-pic...

A Newbies Guide To Renewable Energy

Posted by Wolf on Wednesday, 13 July 2011 in Energy Efficiency

from: Carrington College

Woman Faces Jail Time For Growing Vegetable Garden

Posted by henryfool on Tuesday, 12 July 2011 in Food

Julie Bass faces the prospect of going to jail for what she's growing in her front yard. The illegal growth is tomatoes. And zucchinis, peppers and other edible and what normally would be legal plants. The officials in Bass' hometown of Oak Park, Mich., have charged her with growing "vegetable gar...

Japan, Sea Shepherd trade blows at whaling meet

Posted by grant on Tuesday, 12 July 2011 in Wildlife Conservation

SAINT HELIER, Jersey (AFP) – Japan and the anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd on Tuesday swapped angry words at the world whaling conference here over the hunting of cetaceans around Antarctica. In a plenary session of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), Japanese delegation chief Kenji Kagawa ...

Spaniards Trade Cars For Lifetime Trolley Pass

Posted by lillianbarbeito on Tuesday, 12 July 2011 in Transportation

To get citizens out of their cars and onto a newly-opened public trolley system, the city of Murcia, Spain recently embarked on a rather radical campaign: it offered people lifetime trolley passes in exchange for permanently relinquishing their cars. Despite the growing popularity of hybrid and ele...

EPA Update on Yellowstone River Oil Spill

Posted by EarthDude on Monday, 11 July 2011 in Earth Violators

On July 6th EPA issued ExxonMobil an administrative order instructing them to provide information on the circumstances of the spill, conduct appropriate recovery and remediation actions, and perform ongoing environmental sampling. The order also requires ExxonMobil to provide a work pla...

What Will Be Your Legacy?

Posted by CindyJennings on Monday, 11 July 2011 in Newsletter Archive

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Is ocean garbage killing whales?

Posted by grant on Sunday, 10 July 2011 in Earth Violators

Body of a dead humpback whale is seen in Omonville-la-Rogue, north-west France, a rare species to the Channel. A French fishermen brought the whale back in his nets, saying that it was already dead when it was caught in the nets. Entanglement in plastic bags and fishing gear have long been identifie...