"EPA: Toxic Chemicals in Freshwater Fish Widespread"
"Nearly half of lakes and reservoirs nationwide contain fish with potentially harmful levels of the toxic metal mercury, according to a federal study released Tuesday."
Source: AP, 11/11/2009
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"Koalas Could Be Extinct in 30 Years: Conservationists"
"Australia's koalas could be extinct in 30 years, conservationists warned Tuesday, calling for the iconic creatures to be declared an endangered species."
Source: AFP, 11/11/2009
"Panel Backs No-Fishing Zones off Southern California Coast"
"At an emotional meeting, a state panel imposes the landmark restrictions to help restore species, catches of which have dropped up to 95%. The plan was forged out of contentious negotiations."
Source: LA Times, 11/11/2009
"New Models for Environmental Communication"
An interesting new experiment in journalism "surfaced today in a Science Times article by Lindsey Hoshaw, known on Twitter as @thegarbagegirl. The feature is an up-close examination of the Pacific Ocean's vast patch of plastic flotsam, reported with travel funds provided by readers of Spot.us."
Source: Dot Earth, 11/11/2009
"Gloomy Energy Report Sets the Stage for Climate Talks"
"As the world heads for tough negotiations over a global climate deal next month, an influential forecasting agency said on Tuesday that current energy policies were not sustainable, and that a vast transformation of energy use was required to fend off the worst consequences of global warming."
Source: NYTimes, 11/11/2009
EPA Warns 2 Staff Lawyers on Videos Criticizing Climate Policy
"The Environmental Protection Agency has directed two of its lawyers to makes changes to a YouTube video they posted that is critical of the Obama administration's climate change policy."
Source: NYTimes, 11/11/2009
"High BPA Levels Linked To Male Sexual Problems"
"Exposure to high levels of a controversial chemical found in thousands of everyday plastic products appears to cause erectile dysfunction and other sexual problems in men, according to a new study published Wednesday."
Source: Wash Post, 11/11/2009
"Brazil Restores Power After Outage Hits Capital, Ten States"
"Power was restored in Brazil after an outage at a dam providing 20 percent of the country's energy thrust about half of the nation's 190 million people into darkness for at least two hours."
Source: Bloomberg, 11/11/2009
Special Report: The Consequences of Copenhagen
"This is the consequence of failure at Copenhagen: A marked shift in scientific effort from solving global warming to adapting to its consequences, a hodge-podge of uncoordinated local efforts to trim emissions – none of which deliver the necessary cuts – and an altered climate."
Source: Daily Climate, 11/10/2009
"Big Growing Pains and Potential for $5B Weatherization Program"
"Next month, a new class of a dozen or more men and women will begin training in Long Island City, N.Y., to become home weatherization technicians. They are early recruits in a small army of workers being deployed in places around the country where there were only skeleton crews before."
Source: ClimateWire, 11/10/2009
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