CA officials say no radiation threat detected

March 19, 2011 by · Leave a Comment 



An employee weighs the last bottles of ground kelp at Nature Mart Inc. in Los Angeles, after a run on iodine cleaned out the store's supply and ran up hundreds of phone call requests Wednesday, March 16, 2011. Japan's nuclear crisis is spiking demand in the U.S. for potassium iodide that can protect against one type of radiation damage, even though the risk is only in Japan. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP – Air pollution regulators in Southern California say they have not detected increased levels of radiation from the damaged Japanese nuclear reactors.


Tea off: India’s farmers say climate changing brew

January 1, 2011 by · Leave a Comment 

An Indian laborer plucks tea leaves at a tea garden in Amchong tea estate, about 45 kilometers (28 miles) east of Gauhati, India, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. Tea growers in northeastern India say climate change has hurt the country's tea crop, leading not just to a drop in production but also subtly altering the flavor of their brew. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)AP – In this humid, lush region where an important part of the world’s breakfast is born, the evidence of climate change is — literally — a weak tea.


Transocean questions CSB’s power to probe oil spill: report

January 1, 2011 by · Leave a Comment 

Fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon, off Louisiana, in this handout photograph taken on April 21, 2010 and obtained on April 22. Eleven workers were missing and 17 injured in an explosion at the Transocean oil drilling rig. REUTERS/U.S. Coast Guard/HandoutReuters – Transocean Ltd has written to the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB), challenging the federal agency’s authority to investigate April’s deep-water drilling accident, Bloomberg said.


Trees planted for global climate campaign

October 10, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 



Volounteers paint a school's roof with a special white paint that reflects nearly 80% of sunlight, helping to keep the roof much cooler, while reducing energy use, air conditioning bills, and carbon emissions, as part of the worldwide 10/10/10 Global Work Party, in New York.(AFP/Emmanuel Dunand)AFP – Environmental campaigners planted trees, collected rubbish and rallied against pollution on Sunday for what organisers aimed to make the world’s biggest day of climate-change activism.




China and US blame each other in climate stand-off

October 10, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 



Smoke is seen rising from a chimney in the northern port city of Tianjin where the UN Climate Change Conference is being held. The United States and China clashed on the final day of climate change talks, accusing each other of blocking progress ahead of a major summit next month on global warming.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP – The United States and China clashed on the final day of climate change talks on Saturday, accusing each other of blocking progress ahead of a major summit next month on global warming.


Climate talks marred by bickering, progress on finance

October 10, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 



A worker stands at a coal dump site of Daba power plant in Qingtongxia, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region October 8, 2010. REUTERS/Tom YzReuters – China hit back on Saturday at U.S. claims it was shirking in the fight against climate change, likening the criticisms to a mythic pig preening itself.


Hungary sludge reservoir at risk of collapse

October 10, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 



Bus drivers wait beside their buses on a highway to pick up evacuees outside Kolontar, Hungary, Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. The Hungarian town of Kolontar near the toxic red sludge reservoir that flooded the area and killed at least seven people is under evacuation over fears of a new leak of the dangerous heavy metal waste, officials said. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)AP – The cracking wall of an industrial plant reservoir appeared on the verge of collapse late Saturday, and engineers were working to blunt a possible second wave of the caustic red sludge that has already deluged several towns in western Hungary and killed seven.




China highlights climate change efforts

October 10, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 



In this Wednesday Sept. 1, 2010 photo, a chimney of a coal-fired power plant emit smoke during the night in Changchun in northeast China's Jilin province. As the world's biggest greenhouse gas producer, China was widely seen as an obstacle in the Copenhagen climate summit last year. But while negotiations inched forward, Beijing poured $34.6 billion into clean energy in 2009, nearly double the U.S. investment. (AP Photo) CHINA OUTAP – As the world’s biggest greenhouse gas producer, China was widely seen as an obstacle in the Copenhagen climate summit last year. But while negotiations inched forward, Beijing poured $34.6 billion into clean energy in 2009, nearly double the U.S. investment.




China and US in stand-off at climate talks

October 10, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

Smoke is seen rising from a chimmny in the northern port city of Tianjin where the UN Climate Change Conference is being held. The talks were set to wrap up on Saturday with China and the United States locked in a stand-off, slowing down progress ahead of a major summit next month on global warming.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP – UN climate talks were set to wrap up on Saturday with China and the United States locked in a stand-off, slowing down progress ahead of a major summit next month on global warming.




Study Finds More Fresh Water Entering the Earth’s Oceans

October 10, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

A recent study from researchers at the University of California (UC) Irvine has found that since 1994, the overall amount of fresh water flowing into the world’s oceans has increased significantly. They found that 18 percent more fresh water has reached the oceans between 1994 and 2006, an average annual rise of 1.5 percent.



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