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Study: Birds are migrating earlier
BOSTON, June 24 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say many birds are migrating earlier because of global warming, but some might not be able to keep pace with changing...
Supreme Court weighs whales vs war preparation
(AP) -- The Supreme Court will have the final say on whether war preparation trumps whale protection.Acting at the Bush administration's urging, the court agreed Monday to review a...
Jay Rayner: The future of food is not on the farm
Jay Rayner: Thanet Earth will be the largest greenhouse development ever seen in Britain, covering an area equivalent to 80 football pitches
Opposition mounts to clean air change affecting parks
(AP) -- Critics fear the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will adopt a rule in the waning days of the Bush administration that will make it easier to build coal-fired...
German university town's green plans raise a storm
A plan making solar panels mandatory in the German university town of Marburg sparked a furore Saturday with critics accusing municipal authorities of being Green "dictators."
Q & A: Peril in a Pot
Is it dangerous or unhealthy to eat fish or meat that has been frozen, cooked, refrozen, then cooked again?
Dot Earth: Acting in an Uncertain Climate
A call for action amid uncertainty on climate disruption.
Tons of PCBs May Come Calling at a Down-at-the-Heels Texas City
If a French-owned waste management company has its way, the Port Arthur, Tex., area will be the final destination for 40 million pounds of toxins from Mexico.
Dot Earth: Seas Rising Faster Than Realized
A new study indicates that heat held in by a building greenhouse blanket has largely accumulated in the oceans.
Protected Royal Bengal tiger killed by villagers
(AP) -- A news report says villagers and forest guards have beaten to death a protected Royal Bengal tiger after it killed three people near the world's largest mangrove...
EU CO2 emissions drop 7.7 percent from 1990 levels: EAA
Greenhouse gas emissions from the European Union dropped 7.7 percent from 1990 to 2006, even as the use of carbon dioxide-intensive coal increased, the European Environment Agency said Friday.
Mayfly-Mimicking Sensor Could be High Tech 'Canary in the Coal Mine'
Security, health and safety sensors in coal mines, buildings or underground public transit areas where air or water does not readily flow may one day be improved by research on...
Mexico recovers 929 pre-Columbian pieces
(AP) -- Mexico recovered more than 900 pre-Columbian artifacts seized from smugglers in the U.S. and Canada, including 800-year-old fiber sandals, spears and hunting bows looted from nomadic caves,...
Floodwaters to widen 'dead zone' in Gulf of Mexico
(AP) -- Floodwaters loaded with farm runoff are heading down the Mississippi River, and scientists fear the deluge will dramatically increase this summer's dead zone in the Gulf of...
Digital Water Pavilion Makes A Splash In Spain
An MIT-designed building with walls made entirely of water is being unveiled Thursday at the opening of the Zaragoza World Expo in Spain. This is the first of its kind...
EPA creates strategies to save ecosystems
WASHINGTON, June 20 (UPI) -- Strategies to protect sensitive ecosystems in the Unites States from the impact of climate change are the basis of a new federal report.
Clean Coal - Pipe Dream Or Next Big Thing?
The coal industry has launched an ad campaign to sell the public on the idea of clean coal as a viable energy alternative, but some say that the technology doesn't...
Scientific reasons for Earth’s seasons
It’s time for a change of seasons — but what determines when spring ends and summer begins? Get the scientific reasons.
Beijing Olympic car ban targets pollution, gridlock
Beijing will ban more than one million cars from the streets during the Olympics in an effort to curb pollution and ease traffic gridlock, the government confirmed Friday.
Virginia man sheds 80 pounds eating at McDonald's
QUINTON, Va. (AP) -- A Virginia man lost about 80 pounds in six months by eating nearly every meal at McDonald's....
Business leaders call for global warming action
(AP) -- The world's developed countries should take the lead in the battle against global warming and push for halving global emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, a group...
Earth from Space: Arctic Ocean swirls
This Envisat image captures the marginal ice zone, a region that forms at the boundary of open and frozen oceans, of the Greenland Sea during the onset of spring melting.
Officials suspend Calif. aerial spraying program
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- Officials on Thursday abruptly canceled a state program to spray chemicals to combat crop-eating moth in urban areas after months of public uproar over its unclear...
When the Levee Breaks: Is the Culprit Rain--Or Overdevelopment? [News]
At least 19 levees in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri have failed over the past week after heavy rains, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers--and workers swarmed to shore...
New E-Waste Standards: Junking Electronic Gadgets without Trashing the Planet [News]
Last Sunday, six Greenpeace activists boarded a ship named the Yang Ming Success in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor. Their mission: to prevent workers from unloading so-called e-waste, the toxic remnants...
World population may top 7B in 2012
WASHINGTON, June 19 (UPI) -- More than 7 billion people may be alive on Earth in 2012, the U.S. Census Bureau predicted Thursday.
Study provides a first look at ammonia volatilized from surface applied urea
The question of how much nitrogen is lost from fertilizer urea when it is applied to the soil surface comes up with growers and fertilizer dealers every season and is...
VIDEO: Mozambique's Better Biofuels
Jatropha, a hardy biofuel plant grown in salty soils near the Indian Ocean, may reduce biofuels' competition with food-producing crops, industry officials say.