"High in Yellowstone, a Foundational Tree Falters"
"YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK – If you've hiked in the Northern Rockies above 9,000 feet, you've hiked among a whitebark pine forest."
Source: Daily Climate, 10/08/2014
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"The Long Bright Path to the Nobel Prize for LED Lighting"
"Here’s to the continual intellectual tussles that produce technological leaps like the super-efficient and durable LED light bulbs that are increasingly displacing incandescent and fluorescent bulbs (and sooty kerosene lamps) and garnered a Nobel Prize for three physicists on Tuesday."
Source: Dot Earth, 10/08/2014
"Anti-ALEC Activists Pressure eBay to Drop Conservative Group"
"More than 80 organizations are asking the e-commerce company to follow the lead of Google and other tech giants and divorce itself from the American Legislative Exchange Council."
Source: National Journal, 10/08/2014
"EPA Increases Public Access To Chemical Data"
"The Environmental Protection Agency moved on Tuesday to increase the amount of data made available to the public on regulated chemicals."
Source: The Hill, 10/08/2014
"Who Are the Big Ten in the Carbon Pollution Business?"
"What ties America's second-biggest energy company, ConocoPhillips Co., to a small Houston-based shale driller, Halcón Resources Corp.? They had some of the worst carbon pollution rates among their peers in 2012."
Source: ClimateWire, 10/08/2014
"US East Coast Cities Face Frequent Flooding Due To Climate Change"
"From Miami to Washington DC, towns and cities on America’s east coast could see triple the number of tidal floods by 2030 as sea levels rise, say researchers."
Source: Guardian, 10/08/2014
"Judge Dismisses Suit Against EPA Climate Rule"
"A federal judge in Nebraska has dismissed a challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed carbon limits for new power plants."
Source: The Hill, 10/08/2014
FWS Proposes Protecting Mink-like Fishers from Pot Farm Poisons
"PORTLAND — New threats and a legal settlement prompted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposal today to list West Coast populations of fisher as threatened under the Endangered Species Act."
Source: EarthFix/OPB, 10/07/2014
Chesapeake Cleanup Would Bring Economic Benefit Of $22.5 Billion: Study
The Chesapeake Bay region would reap an additional $22.5 billion a year from improved hurricane protection, crab and fish production and climate stability if the Obama administration's contested plan to clean up the watershed proceeds, an environmental group says."
Source: AP, 10/07/2014
"World Falling Behind 2020 Plan for Nature Protection: UN"
"OSLO -- Governments are failing to meet goals to protect animals and plants set out in a biodiversity plan for 2020 that also aims to increase food supplies and slow climate change, a U.N. report showed on Monday."
Source: Reuters, 10/07/2014
