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- Just as the weather warms in the northern hemisphere, easing annual worries of an influenza pandemic, a new strain of avian influenza called H7N9 has begun to claim lives in China. What is new this time is the level of scrutiny the Chinese...
- Tens of thousands of gallons of radioactive water leaked from a large underground storage pool at Japan’s crippled nuclear plant, and thousands more gallons could seep out before the faulty pool can be emptied, the plant’s operator said Saturday.
- Concerns about a deadly new strain of bird flu intensified Friday as the disease claimed a sixth life in eastern China and agricultural authorities in Shanghai ordered a wide-scale slaughter of poultry in an effort to stem its spread.
- The Canadian government has barred scientists from entering the Experimental Lakes Area in Ontario and has begun dismantling some of its buildings. As funding for the freshwater research station dried up this week, scientists with on-going projects...
- With a decision pending on a controversial new pipeline for a heavy crude...
- Shutterstock In 2007, a financial firestorm ravaged Wall Street and the rest of the country. In 2012, Hurricane Sandy obliterated a substantial chunk of the Atlantic seaboard. We think of the first as a human-made calamity, the second as the...
- TOKYO (Reuters) - Radioactive water has apparently leaked from another underground storage tank at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Sunday.
- A peer-reviewed analysis finds the killing method used on dolphins in a Japanese town is far from humane.
- A Fukushima Daiichi storage pool appeared to have lost almost 32,000 gallons, and thousands more could seep out before it can be pumped dry.
- Behind solar power’s poor stock market performance is an enigma: Although solar sells, it’s tough to turn a profit.
- Federal accident investigators urged a complete overhaul of California's "patchwork" of oil industry regulations Friday at a state legislative hearing into the fire last year at Chevron's Richmond refinery.
- Since ExxonMobil’s Pegasus pipeline ruptured and leaked Canadian oil across an Arkansas suburb a week ago, the company has maintained that only "a few thousand barrels" spilled at the site, but it changed that to 5,000 barrels on Friday after a news...
- What if, instead of giving Marie Curie and Alexander Fleming Nobel prizes for their life-saving work on radiation and penicillin, they'd been thrown in jail? It would be perverse to reward great, public works by depriving people of their freedom.
- The persistence of the drought in Texas has forced ranchers to use all the creative techniques they can muster to survive. The situation is so dire that several times during a drive around one ranch, tears sprang to the owner's eyes as he spoke...
- ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline break, spilling at least 12,000 barrels of heavy Canadian crude oil and water into an Arkansas neighborhood, may provide a real-world test of a hotly contested issue: Is tar sands oil more corrosive and damaging than...
- Although the Obama administration seems to be leaning toward approving the Keystone XL pipeline, according to experts, navigating the political climate surrounding the issue promises to be difficult, especially with the president's comments about...
- Europe's cap-and-trade system for reducing the release of greenhouse gases is broken, but not everybody wants to fix it. Industry has profited immensely from the plummeting prices of CO2 emissions certificates, and from lax checks on questionable...
- Smoldering embers beneath pots and skillets around the world spew greenhouse gases and aerosols, polluting lungs and warming the planet. Aid and development groups have tackled the issue, but one of the most popular solutions, improved cookstoves,...
- Forecourts in the UK have seen the volume of fuel they sell fall significantly over the past five years with sales of petrol dropping more than 20 per cent as oil prices have climbed and motorists have switched to more efficient vehicles.
- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar voiced optimism Friday that the nation's first offshore wind farm will soon break ground after more than a decade of delays and be followed by more off the Atlantic coast.
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