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Man Runs For Life As Polar Bear Chases Him Round Car (PICS)
dailymail.co.uk — These pictures show how close one man came to being a polar bear's dinner as he returned to his car in a remote Alaskan town.More… (Environment)
Breaking Video: 500 mil. gallon toxic coal waste spill in TN
youtube.com — Watch aerial footage of the 500 million gallons of toxic coal waste spill in the Tennessee River. On Sunday night, 4 to 6 feet of ice cold toxic coal ash and slurry burst out of a Tennessee Valley Authority holding pond for power plant waste and buried 12 homes, 400 acres, and wrecked a train. Coal ash is more radioactive than nuclear waste.More… (Environment)
Scientists Warn Large Earth Collider May Destroy Earth
theonion.com — In October, Fermilab scientists joined a growing number of physicists around the world in warning that the Very Large Earth Collider—a $117 billion...More… (Environment)
US Becomes Largest Wind Power Producer in the World
cleantechnica.com — The United States has overtaken Germany to become the largest producer of wind energy in the world, generating enough capacity to eliminate the burning of 91 million barrels of oil per year.More… (Environment)
Global Warming: Reasons Why It Might Not Actually Exist
[Reported by Diggers as Possibly Inaccurate]telegraph.co.uk — 2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved, according to the Telegraph's Christopher Booker. Sceptics have long argued that there are other explanations for climate change other than man-made CO2 and here we look at some of the arguments put forward by those who believe that global warming is all a hoax.More… (Environment)
Bush Administration Eviscerates Endangered Species Act
blogs.nwf.org — The Bush administration today issued a final rule eliminating the Endangered Species Act requirement that federal agencies consult with independent scientists.More… (Environment)
Gore: World cares more about Paris Hilton than saving planet
telegraph.co.uk — "The political systems of the developed world have become sclerotic. We have to overcome the paralysis that has prevented us from acting and focus clearly and unblinkingly on this crisis rather than spending so much time on OJ Simpson, Paris Hilton and Anna Nicole Smith." More… (Environment)
Remember all that "NONTOXIC" coal ash sludge?
cnn.com — When it comes to big money industry disaster spills, the media takes a "safe until proven toxic" attitude contrary to common sense. The coal ash sludge which has devastated the Tennessee River now shows to have elevated levels of arsenic. EPA says water safe, but arsenic at levels "considered harmful to humans"... so the H2O is safe but harmfulMore… (Environment)
Canada's forests now add to, not subtract from, climate woes
chicagotribune.com — The country's 1.2 million square miles of trees -- dubbed the "lungs of the planet" by ecologists because they account for more than 7 percent of Earth's total forest lands -- could always be depended upon to suck in vast quantities of carbon dioxide, cleansing the world of much of the harmful heat-trapping gas. Not anymore.More… (Environment)
Drillers break into magma chamber
news.bbc.co.uk — It has been described as a geologist's dream - a unique opportunity to study up close the volcanic processes that built the Earth's continents. More… (Environment)
New York City to Roll Out LED Street Lighting
redgreenandblue.org — New York City’s Department of Transportation has tapped the Office for Visual Interaction for testing LED street lighting around the Big Apple. If successful, all of the city’s 300,000 street lamps could one day be made up of LEDs.More… (Environment)
Times Square bash left about 40 tons of trash
usatoday.com — One million revelers packed into Times Square plus a ton of confetti and countless noisemakers equals a whole lot of garbage about 40 tons, according to the city Department of Sanitation. Cleanup crews hit the streets shortly after midnight Thursday following the 2009 ball drop. Sanitation spokesman Keith Mellis said 163 people worked until 8 a.m. More… (Environment)
PHOTOS: Cyanide Millipede, Huge Spider Among New Species
news.nationalgeographic.com — Gumprecht's green pit viper is among at least 1,068 new species that have been discovered in Southeast Asia's Greater Mekong River region in the last ten years--an average of two a week, the international conservation group WWF announced.More… (Environment)
Scientists eye unusual swarm of Yellowstone quakes
google.com — Yellowstone National Park was jostled by a host of small earthquakes for a third straight day Monday, and scientists watched closely to see whether the more than 250 tremors were a sign of something bigger to come.More… (Environment)
We are talking about wind farms, China builds them
tgdaily.com — Well, at least we have Exxon and Pickens commercials on the air telling us how green they are. We have had an election campaign talking about alternative power. But China is actually building a huge wind power farm. Somehow I feel this is the next race the U.S. will lose. At least we are good at talking, right? More… (Environment)
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