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- (NPR) It has been a deadly year for the people who fight wildfires. In total, 32 people have lost their lives fighting fires in 2013; the highest number in nearly 20 years, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. Just...
- (AP) Efforts to buy and sell homes in Mayflower have been not been easy since an ExxonMobil Pegasus Pipeline ruptured in March and spilled thousands of barrels of oil in the town near Lake Conway, a local real estate...
- (Lincoln Journal Star) Nebraska landowners fighting TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline and a crowd of their supporters packed a Lincoln courtroom Friday as their attorney took jabs at the state law that handed the power of approval...
- (Bloomberg) Oil-sands deals are getting done at the slowest pace in nine years as the Canadian government's heightened scrutiny of investments by foreign state-owned companies hinders transactions. Industry Canada officials...
- (Bloomberg) Tax credits for the production of wind power and other renewable energy sources face expiration at year's end amid few signs Congress will decide to continue them, tax lobbyists and other analysts say. Failure to extend...
- (New York Times) With billions of dollars in penalties at stake, the civil trial of the British oil company BP begins its second phase on Monday, which will set the amount of oil that spilled into the Gulf of Mexico from the 2010...
- (AP) A new system to capture one of the main gases linked to global warming will be tested at a Nebraska coal plant over nearly four years. The U.S. Department of Energy chose a Nebraska Public Power District plant near Sutherland...
- (Globe and Mail) Major energy companies led by Imperial Oil Ltd. have applied to drill for crude in the Beaufort Sea, targeting an area that could require operations in the deepest water yet for the industry in the...
- (Charlotte Observer) North Carolina's fracking commissioners said Friday that fracking is so inherently safe that they will recommend relaxing the standard by which operators will have to test local well water before they begin...
- (BusinessWeek) The current plan to address one of China's pressing environmental crises—polluted urban air—could have the unintended effect of creating other ecological catastrophes in China and beyond. Northern China's reliance on...
- (The Tennessean) Environmental activists chalked it up as a victory when the University of Tennessee failed this month to receive any bids for a natural gas drilling project on an 8,600-acre publicly owned research forest. The...
- Guess who’s coming for a visit. Or, more precisely, what. Here’s a hint: It has six skinny legs, never knocks and kind of stinks. As the fall air turns cold, swarms of brown marmorated stink bugs are ready to crawl from woods and fields —...
- A tiny chip used in smart phones to adjust the orientation of the screen could serve to create a real-time urban seismic network, easily increasing the amount of strong motion data collected during a large earthquake.
- The Yarnell Hill fire in Arizona was deadly in part because of how close a highly flammable forest was to a community. The U.S. once faced a crisis with structural fires, but managed to change regulations to turn the trend around. Experts say it...
- The fines against BP hang in the balance, and depend on the level of negligence that is determined and how much oil was spilled.
- MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A church under construction in the northern Mexican city of Juarez collapsed on Sunday, killing a 10-year-old boy and injuring at least 28 people, a senior Juarez official said.
- MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court has ordered eight remaining Greenpeace activists be held in custody for two months over a protest against Arctic offshore drilling, the environment advocacy group said on Sunday, dashing any hope some might be...
- Israel’s southern Red Sea resort of Eilat, one of whose prime attractions is its colorful and multi-shaped underwater coral reefs, may have a clear advantage in the future over rival coral-viewing sites around the world, scientists have found.
- Scientists have reported, for the first time, the development of a novel strategy for microbial gasoline production through metabolic engineering of E. coli.
- Friday's IPCC announcement capped four days of lock-down in a Stockholm conference centre debating almost every word of a 33-page summary document for policymakers. In theory, these wranglings are aimed at turning scientific prose into a language...
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