"Japan Accident Renews Focus On Spent Fuel In U.S."
The Japanese nuclear disaster is a reminder that the storage of spent fuel in temporary facilities across the United States may be a disaster waiting to happen.
Source: NPR, 04/07/2011
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"Where Will 'Amber Waves of Grain' Grow in a Climate-Changed World?"
"Giving new meaning to toasted wheat, a team of agricultural researchers has spent the past three years and almost a million dollars installing electric heaters over wheat fields in the desert of Maricopa, Ariz."
Source: ClimateWire, 03/30/2011
"Heat Damages Colombia Coffee, Raising Prices"
Coffee yields from Columbia are declining and prices are rising, because of warmer, wetter weather. Many scientists think global warming is responsible.
Source: NY Times, 03/10/2011
Maine Gov on BPA: 'Worst Case Is Some Women May Have Little Beards'
The debate in Maine and the US at large over BPA, an estrogen-disrupting chemical common in plastics, may be shaped by a comment of Maine's newly elected, Tea Party-backed GOP governor, Paul LePage. "The worst case is some women may have little beards," he said.
Source: Bangor Daily News, 02/24/2011
EPA Compromises on Industrial Boiler Toxic Pollution Rule
"The Obama administration scaled back toxic air rules on heavy industrial boilers, a sign it may be willing to compromise with businesses and Republicans on future air pollution rules."
Source: Reuters, 02/24/2011
"Green Roof Collapses in Illinois"
"Green roofs have become increasingly popular in the United States as a way to beautify and insulate buildings and reduce heat pollution in urban areas, but last week one drew attention for a far different reason: it collapsed."
Source: Green (NYT), 02/21/2011
Regulators Won't Disclose Spill-Response Info on Oil-Sands Pipeline
"Federal regulators have declined to release emergency response details and worst-case spill estimates for a pipeline system that carries Canadian oil-sands crude to the United States, drawing charges of excessive secrecy from the advocacy group that sought the data."
Source: Greenwire, 02/07/2011
"Thaw of Earth's Icy Sunshade May Stoke Warming"
"Shrinking ice and snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere is reflecting ever less sunshine back into space in a previously underestimated mechanism that could add to global warming, a study showed."
Source: Reuters, 01/18/2011
"Spread of Deadly Virus Tied to Forest Decline"
The mysterious "sudden aspen decline" that is decimating many western forests also seems responsible for a spike in deer mouse populations that is hastening spread of the sin nombre virus, a still-rare hantavirus that kills some 40 % of the humans it infects.
Source: NY Times, 01/13/2011
"2010's World Gone Wild: Quakes, Floods, Blizzards"
"This was the year the Earth struck back. Earthquakes, heat waves, floods, volcanoes, super typhoons, blizzards, landslides and droughts killed at least a quarter million people in 2010 — the deadliest year in more than a generation. More people were killed worldwide by natural disasters this year than have been killed in terrorism attacks in the past 40 years combined."
Source: AP, 12/20/2010
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