Search results

Huge AZ Wildfire Enters New Mexico as It Spews Unhealthy Air Eastward [1]

Firefighters working dangerous night shifts were barely beginning to get a handle on some 6 wildfires in Arizona that were spreading to New Mexico, the largest of which, the Wallow fire, was barely more than 10 percent contained. Regional smoke continued to be a serious health threat. Authorities looked for a human cause to blame the fire on, even though the tinder-dry conditions had been causing the Wallow fire to spread at nearly 1,000 acres per hour. Evacuations began in New Mexico even as some Arizona evacuees were being allowed to return home.

Source: AP [2], 06/13/2011

DEADLINE: NSF Media Fellowships for Arctic/Greenland Trip [3]

The National Science Foundation is accepting proposals from media professionals to visit research sites in Greenland and Alaska to report on science supported by NSF's Office of Polar Programs (OPP) between June and August 2018. Some expenses covered. Apply by Apr 20.

Communities in 40 States Get EPA Grants To Redevelop Brownfields [4]

On June 6, EPA announced a new round of grants going to nearly 200 communities in some 40 states and 3 tribal areas. Most of them go to poor and minority areas with high unemployment rates.

41 New Trails Span About 650 Miles [5]

Just in time for summer, 41 new segments of the US National Recreation Trails system in AL, AR, CT, FL, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, MI, MN, NJ, NM, OK, PA, TN, and WV, covering about 650 land and water miles in 17 states, are open for business. These are part of a much larger system of about 1,100 trails spanning 13,000 miles.

Several Tools Available To Check Drinking Water Quality [6]

EPA has updated its Enforcement and Compliance History Online database so that federal standards violations through 2009 can be quickly identified. For example, pick a county and quickly get a customized listing of systems that fall into categories such as serial violators, or occasional violators of things such as health-based standards or monitoring requirements.

Major Update of Local U.S. Climate Data Due by June 30 [7]

Each decade, NOAA's National Climatic Data Center updates its data for 30-year averages for a range of climate indicators. The most widely used "normals" for the period 1981-2010 (including temperature, precipitation, snowfall, snow depth, and heating and cooling degree days) are scheduled to be released at the end of June 2011, with the rest by year end.

"Americans Still Split on Global Warming, Poll Shows" [8]

"Judging from an annual survey by researchers at Yale and George Mason universities, the American public is roughly as fractured in its attitudes toward climate change today as it was last year."

Source: Green (NYT) [9], 06/10/2011

"Thinning Snows In Rockies Tied To Global Warming" [10]

"The snowpack in the Rocky Mountains has been gradually thinning over much of the past century, and a new study attributes much of that to global warming."

Source: NPR [11], 06/10/2011

NRC Head Accused of Withholding Info in Yucca Scuttling Decision [12]

"A report says the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was “not forthcoming” with other commissioners in his decision to have the agency’s staff wind down the review of an application for a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada."

Source: NY Times [13], 06/10/2011

"Judges OK Delay of Diablo Canyon's License Renewal" [14]

"A panel of three federal administrative law judges has announced it is delaying Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant’s license renewal until at least December 2015." The renewal will await further seismic studies.

Source: San Luis Obispo Tribune [15], 06/10/2011

DEADLINE: NSF Media Fellowships for Arctic/Greenland Trip [3]

Pages