Archive for the 'Environment' Category
How Food and Water Are Driving a 21st-Century African Land Grab
March 7th, 2010Via: Guardian: We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards and drove a mile across empty land before we found what will soon be Ethiopia’s largest greenhouse. Nestling below an escarpment of the Rift Valley, the development is far from finished, but the plastic and steel structure already stretches […]
Passenger and Cargo Ships Trapped in Ice Off Sweden
March 5th, 2010Via: AP: Dozens of ships including a passenger ferry with nearly 1,000 people on board were trapped Friday in heavy pack ice in the Baltic Sea off Sweden’s east coast, officials said. Ice breakers were trying to free the ferry Amorella and two cargo ships stuck at the edge of an archipelago northeast of Stockholm, […]
British Winter Was the Coldest for 31 Years
March 4th, 2010Via: Guardian: After suffering snow, sleet, rain and consistently freezing temperatures, the knowledge that the Met Office has officially recognised winter 2009-10 as the coldest in 31 years brings with it a certain grim satisfaction. Provisional figures from the forecaster show the UK winter ? which in forecasting terms lasts from the start of December […]
Common Weedkiller Turns Male Frogs Into Females
March 2nd, 2010Via: Reuters: Atrazine, one of the most commonly used and controversial weedkillers, can turn male frogs into females, researchers reported on Monday. The experiment is the first to show such complete effects of atrazine, which had been known to disrupt hormones and which is one of the chief suspects in the decline of amphibians such […]
Oil Spill Reaches Italy’s River Po After ‘Sabotage’
February 24th, 2010Via: BBC: An oil spill has reached Italy’s River Po after the suspected sabotage of a former refinery led to large amounts of oil pouring into a tributary. The spill began early on Tuesday when someone broke into the plant near Monza, now an oil depot, and opened the taps, Italian news reports said. They […]
Snow in 49 States
February 13th, 2010Via: AP: Forget red and blue — color America white. There was snow on the ground in 49 states Friday. Hawaii was the holdout. It was the United States of Snow, thanks to an unusual combination of weather patterns that dusted the U.S., including the skyscrapers of Dallas, the peach trees of Atlanta and the […]
PENNSYLVANIA: ARMY NATIONAL GUARD TAKES CONTROL OF INTERSTATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM; STATE USING SNOW PLOWS TO BLOCK ONRAMPS
February 11th, 2010WGAL: Video: PennDOT Plowing Interstate On Ramps Shut Via: Lebanon Daily News: The Pennsylvania National Guard is playing a key role in responding to snow-related emergencies across the state. More than 1,200 guardsmen were on duty Wednesday afternoon, but officials expected that number to rise as the snow piled up. “We’re going to go over […]
Australia’s Largest Ever Export Deal: Coal to China
February 8th, 2010Via: ABC: Queensland billionaire Clive Palmer has signed a deal to sell millions of tonnes of coal to China in what’s believed to be Australia’s largest export contract. Mr Palmer says the $69 billion, 20-year offtake deal was signed last Friday with China Power International. Another $8.6 billion agreement was signed with the Metallurgical Corporation […]
Audi 2010 Green Car Super Bowl Commercial
February 8th, 2010City of L.A. Wants Construction of New Buildings to Include Catchment Systems to Handle Toxic Runoff During Rain Storms
February 2nd, 2010What is happening to the millions of people who are breathing the air that’s carrying all the pollutants that are winding up in the toxic runoff? This is the Los Angeles Times from 2002: A report by a Washington, D.C., environmental group says that children in California are at greater risk of contracting cancer from […]
