Canada: This is the dirtiest oil in the world
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008The Guardian: What happens when the world's biggest oil companies target a northern wilderness?Read the full story
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The Guardian: What happens when the world's biggest oil companies target a northern wilderness?Read the full story
Weyerhauser: Logging and landslides - What went wrong?
Sunday, July 13th, 2008Those fears came true last December when a monster storm barreled in from the Pacific, drenching the mountains around the Chehalis River basin and touching off hundreds of landslides. Little Mill Creek, filled with mud and debris, turned dark like chocolate syrup. More than three months passed before nearly ...
Local Nestlé water plant? Not in our town, Enumclaw says
Thursday, July 10th, 2008For now, Nestle has taken its show down the road to Orting. There, Mayor Cheryl Temple is keeping an open mind. In her humble opinion, Enumclaw jumped the gun. "I always believe that if someone comes to town to do business, we should at least give them the respect of ...
Boeing, SkyHook to build ‘blimp on steroids’ - for remote resource extraction
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008Under the plan announced Tuesday by Boeing, based in Chicago, and Skyhook, a privately held business in Calgary, the Jess Heavy Lifter, or JHL-40, a helium-filled dirigible powered by four large helicopter-style rotors, would be designed to carry up to 40 metric tons of steel, trucks and other goods nearly ...
Ecuador Constitutional Assembly Votes to Approve Rights of Nature In New Constitution
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008On July 7, 2008, the Ecuador Constitutional Assembly - composed of one hundred and thirty (130) delegates elected countrywide to rewrite the country's Constitution - voted to approve articles for the new constitution recognizing rights for nature and ecosystems. "If adopted in the final constitution by the people, Ecuador would ...
New satellite photos show Amazon deforestation exploding
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008Brazil's DETER real-time monitoring system found that more than 430 square miles of forest, an area a bit smaller than the city of Los Angeles, vanished in the month of April, while about 2,300 square miles, larger than the state of Delaware, were destroyed between last August and April.Read the ...
Shark attacks have Mexico resort area in panic
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008The article doesn't seem to mention overfishing of shark prey as a possibility but I suspect this is involved as well.Read the full story
Subway cars find new life on ocean floor
Saturday, May 17th, 2008Jeff Tinsman, Delaware's reef program coordinator, said a 600-car reef in that state's waters had increased the local fish population by 400 times, and boosted the number of angling trips to 13,000 a year from 300 before the reef was created.Read the full story
Polar Bear to Be Designated As Threatened Species
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008The Bush Administration Wednesday handed environmentalists a major victory, determining there was sufficient scientific evidence to declare the polar bear a threatened animal under the Endangered Species Act, the Interior Department said.Read the full story
Pollution a lifesaver for Midwest storm victims?
Sunday, May 11th, 2008Ah yes, stupid media headlines: environmental degradation saving lives ... some say!Read the full story