"Contaminated Soil Lingers Where Apples Once Grew"
"At homes and day care centers throughout Central Washington, children play in yards contaminated with lead and arsenic."
Source: EarthFix/OPB, 10/13/2015
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Turkey Plans 80 Coal-Fired Power Plants -- What About Climate Change?
"ISTANBUL -- Driving along the E5 highway, this ancient city's jumble of concrete block high-rises and Ottoman-domed mosques recedes into the distance. The future gleams."
Source: ClimateWire, 10/13/2015
"The V20: Climate Change's Vulnerable Call for Financial Help"
"A new group of 20 countries, home to 700 million people, face hundreds of billions of dollars in climate-related losses."
Source: InsideClimate News, 10/13/2015
"Evidence Mounts for El Nino That Could Ease Calif. Drought"
"Evidence is mounting that the El Nino ocean-warming phenomenon in the Pacific will spawn a rainy winter in California, potentially easing the state's punishing drought but also bringing the risk of chaotic storms like those that battered the region in the late 1990s."
Source: AP, 10/13/2015
"Children Suffer as World Bank’s Borrowers Upend Their Lives"
"In the disappearing rainforests of Indonesia, a 9-year-old boy copes with the trauma of eviction"
Source: ICIJ, 10/12/2015
"Climate-Change Threat for Tea Estates"
"Increasing incidences of pest outbreaks, prolonged periods of drought, change in the pattern of rain distribution, and rising number of hailstorms are harbingers of climate change for the already struggling tea industry sector."
Source: The Hindu, 10/12/2015
"What Exxon Knew About the Earth's Melting Arctic"
"Back in 1990, as the debate over climate change was heating up, a dissident shareholder petitioned the board of Exxon, one of the world’s largest oil companies, imploring it to develop a plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from its production plants and facilities."
Source: LA Times, 10/12/2015
"Deal Approved To Protect Grizzly Bear Habitat in Montana"
"A U.S. judge on Friday approved a deal between conservationists and Montana officials to restrict road-building and logging in roughly 22,000 acres (8,900 hectares) of state forest lands that make up core habitat for federally protected grizzlies."
Source: Reuters, 10/12/2015
"Appeals Court Puts the Brakes On EPA's Clean Water Rule"
"The US Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit granted a temporary stay against the Water of the United States rule on Friday."
Source: Christian Science Monitor, 10/12/2015
"Calif. Oversight of Oil Well Injection Sites Inadequate: State Review"
"California's oversight of wells where oil companies dispose of wastewater brought to the surface is hindered by inadequate staffing and poorly organized paper records, a state review of the program said Thursday."
Source: Reuters, 10/12/2015
