December 8, 2007 – 1:56 am
Earth Justice
Aviation sector must join efforts to fight climate change
December 5, 2007
Aircraft account for 12 percent of carbon dioxide emissions from U.S. transportation sources.
Washington, DC — A coalition of environmental groups, states and regional governments filed petitions with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today urging the agency to address the effects of vast amounts of […]
November 29, 2007 – 2:03 am
EarthJustice
New rule would allow over 100,000 tons of hazardous waste to be burned without proper safeguards
November 26, 2007
Washington, D.C. — A plan by the Environmental Protection Agency would reclassify over 100,000 tons of hazardous waste, allowing many companies to use this waste as fuel rather than handle it as dangerous hazardous waste. The result is […]
November 13, 2007 – 4:03 am
ScienceDaily (Nov. 8, 2007) — Emissions from coal-fired power plants may be an important source of water pollution and fish contamination, say researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.
A new study found higher-than-Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-recommended levels of mercury and elevated levels of selenium in channel catfish caught in a rural […]
November 10, 2007 – 8:23 am
ScienceDaily (Nov. 5, 2007) — Far removed from streams of gas-thirsty cars and pollution-belching factories lies another key player in global climate change. Circling the northern hemisphere, the conifer-dominated boreal forests - one of the largest ecosystems on earth - act as a vast natural regulator of atmospheric carbon levels.
Forest ecologists at the University of […]
October 27, 2007 – 5:50 am
NOAA photo
Oceana
Despite their impact on the global climate, greenhouse gases and other global warming pollution from ships remain unregulated by the U.S. Government. These emissions also have not been limited by the Kyoto Protocol or any other international treaty. However, ships are a major source of global warming pollutants, including carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and […]
October 14, 2007 – 7:43 am
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
Date:
October 14, 2007
More on:
Water, Ecosystems, Oceanography, Geography, Ecology, Atmosphere
Why Is The Ocean Salty?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071012104955.htm
Science Daily — The saltiness of the sea comes from dissolved minerals, especially sodium, chlorine, sulfur, calcium, magnesium, and potassium, says Galen McKinley, a UW-Madison professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Pacific Ocean at dawn. Today’s ocean salt has ancient origins. As […]
October 13, 2007 – 6:31 pm
TreeHugger
US Steel, Gary Indiana
The questionably named Indiana Department of Environmental Management, which should be still smarting from its BP Whiting Refinery scandal (TreeHugger here and here) is handing out permits to pollute again, this time to US Steel’s mill in Gary, Indiana. According to the Chicago Tribune, Indiana is moving to scrap, relax or omit […]
October 9, 2007 – 12:47 pm
EarthJustice
We need your help! Please tell Congress to send the President an energy bill that puts America on a path to a cleaner, renewable energy future and starts to turn us away from our long addiction to dirty fossil fuels –- because our future depends on reducing global warming pollution every chance we get!
Even […]
October 5, 2007 – 5:30 am
Friends of The Earth
This is not Kool-Aid. It’s a river that provides drinking water to tens of thousands of people in Greece who are dying of cancer, and whose government has left them to fend for themselves.
Write our ambassador to Greece urging that the US to ratchet up pressure on the Greek government to […]
September 27, 2007 – 3:56 am
TreeHugger
As a sombre reminder that the oceans too are suffering the grave effects of over-exploitation and widespread pollution, a new report released by the Worldwatch Institute indicates that 76 percent of world fish stocks are either fully or over-exploited. The report suggests that in order to protect marine biodiversity and human livelihoods, marine reserves or […]
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