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- Two House Democrats are urging Congress to investigate oil and gas spills caused by massive flooding in Colorado – a state where the number of oil and gas wells has doubled since 2006, when horizontal drilling and fracking were introduced.
- A new plan to determine how much of the world’s largest chromium-6 contamination site is the result of Pacific Gas & Electric Co. operations and what part comes from nature has circulated among water regulators, the utility, Hinkley residents...
- Girls go for men with "green" cars rather than those with gas-guzzlers, according to a British survey. More than half of women reckon drivers of expensive sports cars are arrogant, the poll from Motors.co.uk found.
- Mosquito control officials are worried that dengue has established a foothold in Florida. The last outbreak — and the first in the state in about 70 years — was in 2009 and 2010, when dengue fever hit Key West.
- Early results from government tests on dead bees this spring and summer show levels of controversial pesticides are comparable with those detected last year, when Health Canada declared a link between the seed-coating chemicals and “unusually high”...
- Thousands of people marched Sunday against a Canadian company's plans to open Europe's largest gold mine at Rosia Montana, in what has become one of the longest-running protests in post-communist Romania.
- Honey bees are incredibly important to the U.S. food supply, of which about one-third relies on bees for pollination. This week's TechKnow explores the phenomenon known as “colony collapse” and the devastating effects that the loss of honey bees...
- The standard of living of many Russians improves every year, which leads to an increase in the number of cars on the roads. This in turn causes deterioration of the environmental situation. The Russians are breathing harmful air, which can lead to...
- The second phase of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill trial begins today in New Orleans, restarting a legal juggernaut that could saddle the energy giant with the largest environmental penalty in U.S. history.
- Smartphones, which have already revolutionized world communications, are now on track to save the whales.
- B.C. Premier Christy Clark says her province is moving closer to an agreement with Alberta that would lay a path for oil sands bitumen to reach B.C. ports.
- In a place where population growth is moving incredibly fast, added pressure on farmers in India in the wake of crushing debt and failed crops calls for a new agricultural approach. Genetic modification and organic farming present promising...
- For those of us fortunate enough to be born into the right circumstances, life is good, with antibiotics, modern dentistry, vaccines, climate-controlled homes, big-screen TV’s, smart phones. The sum of this, however, is worrying to some: What is the...
- Is the IPCC’s self-imposed task of producing massive consensual documents about every aspect of climate science — and then resisting politicians' efforts to change them — worth it?
- The Central Pollution Control Board's report on the state of the centrally-funded sewage treatment plants explains why gastro diseases are on the rise in India. The state of a country’s public health and hygiene is one of the strongest indicators of...
- To those homeowners defiantly holding out just so they can look out their windows at the ocean we say: Enough. Be solid citizens and good neighbors and allow the state to build a dune. There's 127 miles of shore to protect.
- Seventy-four Chinese fishermen were missing on Monday after a typhoon sunk three fishing boats in the South China Sea as Thailand and Vietnam braced for torrential rain and flooding.
- New data visualizations from the NASA Center for Climate Simulation and NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., show how climate models used in the new report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental...
- NASA and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are collaborating on a first-of-its-kind portable radar device to detect the heartbeats and breathing patterns of victims trapped in large piles of rubble resulting from a disaster. The prototype...
- The water budget of the troposphere, the bottom layer of the Earth’s atmosphere, determines the weather and plays a central role in climate change. The isotope composition of water vapor, i.e. the ratio of light and heavy water molecules, provides...
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