"2 Fisheries Collapsed Unnoticed, Study Says"
"Two popular Southern California fisheries have collapsed right under the noses of management agencies that had inadequate data, a new study suggests."
Source: Green/NYT, 10/26/2011
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"A Photographic Call to Action"
Clyde Butcher, a photographer who lives in the Everglades, uses his nature photographs to support calls for conservation. He's a member of the International League of Conservation Photographers, who address issues ranging from poaching to global warming.
Source: Green/NYT, 10/26/2011
"Rina Strengthens, Aims at Mexico Coastal Resorts"
"CANCUN, Mexico -- Authorities evacuated fishing communities on Mexico's resort-studded Caribbean coast and some tourists began to leave, as Hurricane Rina took aim at Cancun and the island of Cozumel on Wednesday."
Source: AP, 10/26/2011
NASA To Launch Earth-Observing Satellite Friday After Delay
"LOS ANGELES — After a five-year delay, an Earth-observing satellite will be launched to test new technologies aimed at improving weather forecasts and monitoring climate change."
Source: AP, 10/26/2011
"Eighth Brazilian Farmer Since May Killed in Amazon"
"An agricultural leader protesting illegal deforestation was shot to death in northern Brazil, the eighth environmentalist farmer to be killed since May in the Amazon, activists said Tuesday."
Source: AFP, 10/26/2011
"Green Groups Sue U.S. Over Keystone Pipeline Project"
"Three environmental groups sued the U.S. government on Tuesday, challenging claims in a State Department report that said a proposed Canada-to-Texas oil sands pipeline poses little risk to endangered species because spills on the line were unlikely."
Source: Reuters, 10/26/2011
7 Billion: "Water Use Rising Faster Than World Population"
"Like oil in the 20th century, water could well be the essential commodity on which the 21st century will turn."
Source: Reuters, 10/26/2011
"Nigerians Seek $1 Billion From Shell Over Oil Spills"
"ABUJA -- A Nigerian community from the oil-rich Niger Delta has filed a lawsuit in the United States seeking $1 billion in compensation from Anglo-Dutch oil major Shell for decades of pollution caused by oil spills."
Source: Reuters, 10/25/2011
"On Edge of Paradise, Coachella Workers Live in Grim Conditions"
"THERMAL – At one end of Avenue 54, a road slicing through some of the most fertile land in the United States, resides the California of the popular imagination: a place of Bermuda shorts, putting greens and picture-window champagne dinners overlooking the infinity pool.
Source: California Watch, 10/25/2011
"Nebraska Legislature Plans Special Session on Keystone XL Project"
"Nebraska Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman has called the Legislature into special session next week to address growing concerns over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The pipeline would carry tar sands oil across one of the Midwest's most important aquifers.
The action throws a potentially significant new stumbling block into a Canadian company's hope of winning approval before the end of the year for the 1,700-mile pipeline, which would move diluted bitumen -- often heavy in sulfur, nickel and lead -- from Alberta to the Texas coast.
Source: LA Times, 10/25/2011
