Wind farms get pass on eagle deaths
CONVERSE COUNTY, Wyo. — It happens about once a month here, on the barren foothills of one of America’s green-energy boomtowns: A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind...
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Saturday, October 27th, 2012
Japan quake-hit nuclear plant "may still be leaking radiation" into sea
TOKYO (Reuters) - The operator of Japan's quake-struck Fukushima nuclear power plant said on Friday it could not rule out the possibility that it may still be leaking...
Sunday, August 5th, 2012
Greenpeace: Coal mining poses threat to India's tigers
BHUBANESWAR, India, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Coal mining for electricity generation is the biggest threat to India's tigers, a report by environmental activists Greenpeace...
Friday, June 29th, 2012
Kardashians get 40 times more news coverage than ocean acidification
American news outlets covered the Kardashians over 40 times more often than ocean acidification over the past year and a half.
Saturday, June 16th, 2012
Rio+20 organisers struggle to untangle new world disorder
A new world disorder is increasingly evident at the Rio+20 conference as traditional blocs of international alliances break and reform, making an overarching deal...
Australia to create biggest marine reserve
Australia will create the largest network of marine parks in the world, protecting waters covering an area as large as India while banning oil and gas exploration and...
Sunday, April 15th, 2012
Study links ocean acidification to oyster die-offs
Oyster hatcheries along the Washington and Oregon coastlines began experiencing calamitous die-offs beginning in 2006. Scientists suspected they were because of increased...
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
Mining boom threatens Great Barrier Reef
Environmental team is assessing the reef amid concerns over rapid escalation in coal exports and gas explorationA UN environmental team has arrived in Australia for a...
Friday, March 2nd, 2012
Oceans' acidic shift may be fastest in 300 million years
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The world's oceans are turning acidic at what could be the fastest pace of any time in the past 300 million years, even more rapidly than...
Sunday, January 1st, 2012
China proceeds with plan for disputed Xiaonanhai Dam
BEIJING — The Chinese State Council has removed a crucial roadblock to building one of the nation’s most contentious hydroelectric dams, dealing a decisive defeat to...
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
W. Pa. windmills stopped at night after bat death
LILLY, Pa. (AP) — Thirty-five windmills at a western Pennsylvania wind farm have been silenced at night since a bat that belongs to an endangered species was found dead...
Monday, August 22nd, 2011
Xstrata coal mine challenged in court as threat to Barrier Reef
Xstrata Inc., the world’s largest exporter of power station coal, began its court defense of the A$6 billion ($6.2 billion) Wandoan coal mine in Australia that the...
Monday, June 6th, 2011
China faces ‘very grave’ environmental situation, officials say
BEIJING — China’s three decades of rapid economic growth have left it with a “very grave” environmental situation even as it tries to move away from a...
Friday, June 3rd, 2011
Chinese official says Three Gorges Dam is hurting downstream water bodies, criticizes planners
CHONGQING, China — A Chinese official says the planners of the Three Gorges Dam failed to properly gauge its effects on lakes and other bodies of water downstream,...
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
UN: Destruction of world's biggest rainforests down 25 percent
(Reuters) - The rate of destruction of the world's three largest forests fell 25 percent this decade compared with the previous one, but remains alarmingly high in...
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
Smart-REDD plan targets causes of deforestation
A scheme to pay people in developing countries to curb carbon emissions from deforestation is plagued by 'leakage' — trees that aren't cut down in one...
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
Massive, controversial dams approved in Chile
Officials in Chile have approved a controversial US$3.2-billion project to construct five hydropower dams in Patagonia.The HidroAysén project — a collaboration between the...
Thursday, April 28th, 2011
Scientists urge greater protection for Arctic as ice recedes
A group of scientists and representatives of indigenous Arctic communities has identified areas around the Arctic Ocean that they consider especially worthy of...
Monday, April 25th, 2011
Desert tortoises lead to halt of part of BrightSource’s Ivanpah solar project
BrightSource Energy has stopped working on phase 2 and 3 of the Ivanpah solar project – which includes investors such as Google and NRG Energy – after finding more desert...
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
Mekong dam delay a reprieve for giant fish
The world's largest freshwater fish, the Mekong giant catfish, can breathe a sigh of relief, at least for now. A decision has been shelved to build a huge dam in Laos
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