The River of News is an aggregation of news feeds about environment-related topics from a wide variety of sources. While SEJ selects the individual feeds, SEJ does not select the stories that the feeds provide. SEJ neither endorses nor bears responsibility for their content. They are provided as a service to SEJ members who many want to glean story ideas from them. SEJ urges all users to check the accuracy of assertions made in these feeds.
The feeds in the River of News span many content types — from professional news services and newspaper blogs to government agency press releases and public relations or activist group releases. Some are grouped topically. You can see a list of feed categories in the dark grey box to the right.
- (Washington Post) Bechtel, which is building a $12.2 billion waste-treatment plant at the federal government's decommissioned Hanford nuclear weapons site in Washington state, has been buying critically important parts without...
- (Grist) Quebec isn't entirely sure about this whole fracking thing. Amid reports from across the continent of groundwater pollution, air pollution, deforestation, and other environmental side effects of hydraulic fracturing,...
- (Guardian) Fracking in America generated 280 billion US gallons of toxic waste water last year – enough to flood all of Washington DC beneath a 22 feet deep toxic lagoon, a new report out on Thursday found. The report...
- (AP) FirstEnergy says it will close two coal-fired power plants in southwestern Pennsylvania as scheduled next week with no expectations that they will be sold or reopened under stricter environmental regulations.
- (BusinessWeek) In October 2010, the Obama administration lifted its five-month ban on deepwater drilling in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico following BP's disastrous oil spill. Three years later, global oil companies are flocking back to...
- (New York Times) Political instability and violent protests in North Africa are taking their toll on the region's energy sector. In Libya, which has the largest proven oil reserves in Africa, heavily armed militias and...
- (Christian Science Monitor) The threat of a government shutdown sent oil prices down near a three-month low Monday. Investors fear even the temporary furloughing of hundreds of thousands of government employees will crimp a weak...
- (AP) Environmental regulators worked Thursday to determine the cause of a significant spill of a clay lubricant during construction of an underground pipeline in eastern Ohio. Southeast Directional Drilling Co. reported Tuesday it...
- (Climate Central) Europe has been warming faster than the global average over the past 30 years, the UN's new climate report reveals. Last week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released part one of its ...
- (Yale Environment 360) Amid clouds of steam spewing from magma-heated pockets beneath Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula, a start-up company is tapping volcanic forces to transform the climate change agent carbon dioxide from a problem...
- BP has been complaining for most of the past year that its fund for compensating economic victims of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill was out of control, and that a New Orleans court official was approving payments to people who had not been...
- The European Union's two-year investigation into the company's practices has already created tensions with Russia's president, Vladimir V. Putin.
- roger.williamsPark visitors gaze at what remains of the Lyell Glacier. Hasta la vista, glacier. The world’s glaciers are withering quickly — researchers say they are contributing to nearly one-third of sea-level rise, despite holding...
- Michael L. How long do you have to live in a city before you find out about its secret underground library? In my case, I guess it’s 10 months, because I just heard about the tiny New York Public Library branch (the Terence Cardinal Cooke-...
- When you shine UV through water polluted with certain organic chemicals and bacteria, the contaminants measurably absorb the UV light and then re-emit it as visible light. Many of today's more advanced devices for testing water are built to make use...
- New England's Native tribes, whose sustainable ways of farming, forestry, hunting and land and water management were devastated by European colonists four centuries ago, can help modern America adapt to climate change.
- Scientists have developed a global electric circuit model by adding an additional layer to a climate model.
- Rising ocean surface temperatures caused by climate change could make fish accumulate more mercury, increasing the health risk to people who eat seafood, researchers report.
- An exploration of the challenges and benefits that come as environmental communication moves to social networks and the Web.
- If you're like me, you're looking for some positive news as the government shutdown and stalemate continues to affect millions of Americans. Let me help - check out the inspiring students of the University of North Carolina Beyond Coal team...
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