"Scientists Warn Against China's Plan To Flatten Over 700 Mountains"
"Scientists have criticised China's bulldozing of hundreds of mountains to provide more building land for cities."
Source: Guardian, 06/05/2014
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"U.S. Sets New Import Duties on Chinese Solar Products"
"The United States slapped new import duties on solar panels and other related products from China on Tuesday after the Commerce department ruled they were produced using Chinese government subsidies, potentially inflaming trade tensions between the two countries."
Source: Reuters, 06/05/2014
TransCanada Shuts Down Southern Leg of KXL Pipeline, Raising Suspicions
"TransCanada shut down the southern leg of the Keystone XL (now called the Gulf Coast Pipeline Project) on June 2 for 'routine work,' according to Reuters. "
Source: DeSmogBlog, 06/05/2014
Special Edition TipSheet: Gulf Coast Restoration
Amy Wold, a reporter with The Advocate in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, writes about coastal challenges facing the state, including coastal loss, restoration, economics, diversion, the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, BP settlements and the RESTORE Act, fisheries impacts — and why protecting and stabilizing Louisiana’s coastline is not just a local issue, but a national one. Image: Heavy machinery moves around sediment that has been piped in from the Mississippi River at a coastal restoration project in Plaquemines Parish in November 2013. © Amy Wold, The (Baton Rouge) Advocate.
"Vanishing Island"
"This short documentary profiles residents of the Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana, as they confront a future threatened by sinking shorelines and rising seas.""
Source: NY Times, 06/04/2014
"When Global Warming Kills Your God"
"Twenty-three Alaskan tribesmen broke the law when they overfished king salmon, but they claim their faith gave them no other choice."
Source: Atlantic, 06/04/2014
"Survey Finds Brown Pelicans Aren't Breeding"
"California's brown pelicans, nearly driven to extinction by poisons a half century ago, are in trouble again, and no one knows why."
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 06/04/2014
"Kaiser Permanente Pledges To Stop Buying Flame-Retardant Furniture"
"The push to rid our bodies and the environment of toxic flame retardants just got a powerful boost from a major health care system, according to experts."
Source: Huffington Post, 06/04/2014
"Buffett’s $26 Billion Power Bet in West Seen Paying Off"
"Warren Buffett’s $26 billion bet on western U.S. power plants, transmission lines and wind farms is poised to pay off."
Source: Bloomberg, 06/04/2014
"Fall of the Wild: the Trapped Wolves of Isle Royale"
"Global warming is putting wildlife at risk, leading to hard questions about wilderness ethics."
Source: Aljazeera America, 06/04/2014
