"After a 20-year ban, Florida may bring back bear hunts to control a growing population of black bears that is increasingly seen as a menace in suburban neighborhoods."
"HOUSTON -- It was DuPont's third deadly U.S. accident in five years and the deadliest of them all. On November 15th, a chemical leak in LaPorte took the lives of four workers, including two brothers."
"Wastewater is arguably worse for the environment than oil, killing vegetation and leaving farmland sterile for generations. Some say the state isn't doing enough to get its spill problem controlled."
"Regulators in California, the country's third-largest oil-producing state, have authorized oil companies to inject production fluids and waste into what are now federally protected aquifers more than 2,500 times, risking contamination of underground water supplies that could be used for drinking water or irrigation, state records show."
"Brussels set to be first bloc to reveal contribution to global emissions cutting deal as next set of UN talks draw close."
Many writers already realize that their work is not merely an indoor, sedentary pursuit but that the best ideas come in a flash while we are doing other things that have nothing to do with writing. SEJ member Chris Woodside will teach you how to tap this energy productively, and regularly — immersing in the natural world, with no agenda — in beautiful Squam Lake, NH. Keynote speaker is Mark Kramer (pictured), director of Boston University's The Power of Narrative writing conference.
"WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will help Fresno, Calif., plan a bike-share system to improve air quality and offer an inexpensive method of transportation as part of the Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities program."
"Colorado could see more infectious disease, negative impacts on the elderly and people living in poverty, as well as stresses to water, cattle and crops as byproducts of future climate change, according to a comprehensive new report commissioned by the Colorado Energy Office."
"Jessica Vyvyan-Robinson was diving off Borneo when she was struck without warning by shock waves."
"The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society says one of its ships has chased an illegal toothfish-poaching vessel out of its hunting grounds in Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone onto the high seas of the Southern Ocean."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/florida-considers-bear-hunting-after-spate-suburban-attacks
[2] http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/72786
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/safety-flaws-led-deadly-dupont-leak
[4] http://www.khou.com/story/money/business/2015/02/05/investigators-safety-flaws-contributed-to-deadly-dupont-plant-explosion/22924557/
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/hard-clean-wastewater-spills-oil-wells-nd-stream
[6] http://www.npr.org/2015/02/04/383724502/hard-to-clean-up-wastewater-spills-from-oil-wells-into-n-d-stream
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/california-permitted-oilfield-discharge-protected-water
[8] http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CALIFORNIA_OIL_IMPERILED_AQUIFERS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/europe-reveal-un-climate-deal-pledge-february-25
[10] http://www.rtcc.org/2015/02/04/europe-to-reveal-un-climate-deal-pledge-on-february-25/
[11] https://www.sej.org/calendar/chris-woodsides-writing-nature-workshop
[12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/fresno-hopes-bikes-will-save-students-money-and-clean-air
[13] http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article9287768.html
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/co-study-climate-change-could-bring-more-disease-crop-damage-fires
[15] http://www.dailycamera.com/science_environment/ci_27455092/study-climate-change-could-bring-more-disease-crop
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/horrors-fishing-dynamite
[17] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/05/business/energy-environment/the-horrors-of-fishing-with-dynamite.html?ref=energy-environment&_r=0
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/sea-shepherd-chases-toothfish-poachers-australian-waters
[19] http://ens-newswire.com/2015/02/04/sea-shepherd-chases-toothfish-poachers-from-australian-waters/
[20] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3161
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3158
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3159
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3160
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3163
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3164
[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3165
[28] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3166
[29] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4966