"China's High-Speed-Rail Revolution"
"China has begun operating what is, by several measures, the world's fastest rail line."
Source: Technology Review, 01/12/2010
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"The Unintended Ripples From the Biomass Subsidy Program"
"It sounded like a good idea: Provide a little government money to convert wood shavings and plant waste into renewable energy. But as laudable as that goal sounds, it could end up causing more economic damage than good."
Source: Wash Post, 01/12/2010
"Will Drilling More Wells in California Help or Hurt?"
"A $40 million federal stimulus project to drill up to 50 new wells in California moves forward despite drying aquifers and community complaints."
Source: AP, 01/12/2010
"Despite Icy Weather, Overall Trend Is Warmer: Experts"
"Frigid weather that has gripped swathes of the northern hemisphere this winter is unusual but does not undermine an overall global trend of warming, experts said on Monday."
Source: AFP, 01/12/2010
"Yucca Haunts Admin's Lagging Efforts on Nuclear Waste Study Panel"
"While President Obama's fiscal 2011 budget proposal is expected to sound a death knell for the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, the administration has so far failed to launch the blue-ribbon commission it promised almost a year ago to decide on a waste-disposal alternative."
Source: Greenwire, 01/12/2010
Farm Bureau Declares War on Climate Bill
After getting major concessions in return for bare acquiescence on the House climate bill, the nation's main agribusiness lobby declared it will try to kill climate legislation altogether in the Senate, using conservative rhetoric about a federal "power grab" and expressing doubt about whether human activities are causing global warming.
Source: Reuters, 01/12/2010
"Behind Mass Die-Offs, Pesticides Lurk as Culprit"
"In the past dozen years, three new diseases have decimated populations of amphibians, honeybees, and — most recently — bats. Increasingly, scientists suspect that low-level exposure to pesticides could be contributing to this rash of epidemics."
Source: YaleE360, 01/11/2010
"Australia Presses Japan on Whaling Safety"
"The futuristic anti-whaling protest boat struck by a Japanese harpoon vessel near Antarctica finally sank on Friday, prompting Australia to voice official concern about safety in the remote Southern Ocean."
Source: Reuters, 01/11/2010
"Stashing Carbon Dioxide In Rocks"
"Basalt formations off the East Coast of the U.S. could suck up a billion tons of carbon dioxide, according to a new study. Paleontologist Paul Olsen, of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, explains how to get the CO2 into the rocks, and why scientists believe it won't leak out."
Source: NPR, 01/11/2010
Do Polar Bears Face Warming 'Death Watch'
Scientists seeing signs of global warming-related stress in western Hudson Bay polar bears ask whether the hungry bears are turning to cannibalism.
Source: Edmonton Journal, 01/11/2010
