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.
- Pirate’s Cove CruisesNow let’s get Cosmos! A humpback whale named Foggy was caught in a tangle of ropes, fishing line, and lobster traps off the coast of Long Island recently, but she got help from human rescuers — and from a whale...
- (Reuters) - Schneider Electric IT Corp is recalling 15 million APC-branded surge protectors sold in the United States after 13 reports of injuries and at least $1.7 million in fire damage, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Thursday.
- Saving the whales often means knowing -- sometimes genetically -- one group of whales from another, say researchers attempting to define populations of a medium-sized and poorly understood baleen whale that is sometimes targeted by Japan's...
- SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile has declared a state of emergency after a late frost caused an estimated $1 billion worth of damage to fruit crops, potentially hitting wine production and impacting trade from one of South America's top fruit exporters.
- MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has pressed piracy charges against all 30 people arrested after the environmental group Greenpeace staged a protest at an offshore oil platform in the Arctic, investigators said on Thursday.
- Martin Cathrae Bikes are not just for kids. Bikes are not just for urban commuters. Bikes are not just for bike snobs. Bikes can be for families. They can be for pregnant ladies. And they can even be for octogenarians. Like Noel Newton. Noel lives...
- pollyalidaThe St. Lawrence River. 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...
- Bill SelakIs this a flower? As a species, we are not doing right by bees. They work so, so hard to pollinate the plants that form the basis for human existence, and, at every junction, we try to thwart them. A new study, for instance, has found that...
- A life cycle impact analyses on three products, an orange juicer, a children's building block and a water spout, showed that making the items on a basic 3-D printer took from 41 percent to 64 percent less energy than making them in an overseas...
- As you may know, jellyfish shut down a Swedish nuclear plant last weekend. This, uh … this is probably not how it happened. But it may well be how it happens next time, as our roundup shows jellyfish getting progressively more organized and...
- BEIJING (Reuters) - Swarms of giant hornets have killed 42 people and injured 1,640 in China's northwestern province of Shaanxi in recent weeks, the official Xinhua news agency said on Thursday.
- Oil and natural gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico have already been evacuated in anticipation of the storm, which is expected to make landfall as early as Saturday.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
- Poetry is a nicer, decidedly more British version of “DUDE, quit blocking the f*cking subway doors; I’m late for work!” And you can thank London’s mayor for that — he’s the one who decided to paper the London Underground with poems gently...
- Where a stream ends is clear, but where it begins can be more difficult to discern. Researchers have now developed a new method to solve this problem, resulting in a new map of the Potomac River watershed stream network that significantly improves...
- With limited water and an increasing number of people depending on it, water security is tenuous. But integrated water management plans using “blue,” “green,” and “gray” water can increase water security.
- False killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens) are one of the least studied species of ocean dolphin, but new light has been cast on their behavior by a team of marine scientists from New Zealand. The research reveals how a population off the coast of...
- Results of survey of University of Florida students gauging perceptions, level of fear re: climate change.
- Gary BeckWho’s watching the weather for the farmers? Congressional paralysis is freezing or slashing national spending on weather forecasting and monitoring. Plans to deploy a next-generation array of satellites known as COSMIC-2 could be cut...
- Empower Playgrounds If only we could use kids to fuel our homes and cars so they’d be useful for something. Wait, that came out wrong. But for Empower Playgrounds, it came out RIGHT: A non-profit called Empower Playgrounds has developed a way...
- 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 subjecting them to the required quality...
Advertisements 
