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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)
notanidiot
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)
Anim8tor
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)
dirkdiggler1337We 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)
PeterNorton
Chinese Planning World's Largest Solar Project
ecogeek.org — Planned solar projects in the U.S. seemed to be one-upping each other throughout 2008, ending with the enormous planned 500 MW facility in San Luis Obispo CA. But now the Chinese are in on the game and, surprise, they're even bigger...planning a solar project twice as large as any currently planned, with a capacity of a full gigawatt.More… (Environment)
imbanksyPresident Bush to protect ocean reefs, fish and volcanoes
telegraph.co.uk — George W. Bush is planning to create the world's largest oceanic protected area in the Pacific as part of a bid to improve his record on the environment before leaving office.More… (Environment)
Jenocide312Vatican Blames Mens Infertility On Female Urine
theage.com.au — The contraceptive pill is polluting the environment and is in part responsible for male infertility, according to a report in a Vatican newspaper. The pill has had devastating effects on the environment by releasing tonnes of the female hormone oestrogen into nature through female urine.More… (Environment)
BullHunter
Brazil Sending 30,000 Troops to Protect Rainforest
ecoworldly.com — Brazil’s government has announced plans to increase their soldiers in the Amazon Rainforest from 17,000 to 30,000 over the next 9 years, as well as build new forts and improve others. Why have they chosen to invest $488.6 million in this plan?More… (Environment)
SilicoSurfer
Coffee Beans As The Next Great Auto Fuel?
consumerenergyreport.com — Scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno, researching the prospect of extracting oil from used coffee grounds report that the process is not that difficult.More… (Environment)
jboitnott
Lead for car batteries poisons an African town
msnbc.msn.com — First, it took the animals. Goats fell silent and refused to stand up. Chickens died in handfuls, then en masse. Street dogs disappeared. Then it took the children.More… (Environment)
gnomeyJay Leno's Wind Turbine (Video)
boingboing.net — This video is from Ed Begley and from Jay Leno about a new wind turbine called the MagWind from Enviro-Energies that they will be installing soon. As many of you have asked about "vertical axis wind turbines," I thought you'd like to see the latest in this technology. More… (Environment)
Surferess
Coral growth in decline at Great Barrier Reef
msnbc.msn.com — The rate at which corals absorb calcium from seawater to calcify their hard skeletons — and thus grow — has declined dramatically in the last two decades and signs point to manmade greenhouse gas emissions as the culprit, according to a study of samples from Australia's Great Barrier Reef.More… (Environment)
emily543
Inventor: Geo-Engineer a Worldwide Refrigerator Using Oceans
cleantechnica.com — Bailing out the entire human race might turn out to be cheaper than bailing out Wall Street: Spray gigatons of seawater into the air, mainly in the Northern Hemisphere, and let Mother Nature do the rest, suggests inventor Ron Acer in a patent petition for “a colossal refrigeration system with a 100,000-fold performance multiplier.”More… (Environment)
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The Carbon Footprint of Nuclear War
guardian.co.uk — A recent US study that compares the environmental costs of developing various power sources found that almost 700m tonnes of CO2 would be released into the Earth's atmosphere by even the smallest nuclear conflict.More… (Environment)
tbhurst
Dungeness Crabs: California's Deadliest Catch
npr.org — Dungeness crabs are not only a winter treat; they are also the most valuable catch on the West Coast. More than 400 boats ply the waves in the early winter and lay their crab pots off the coast of California, Oregon and Washington.More… (Environment)
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