Another Earth Summit in Disarray?
• http://www.motherjones.com, By John VidalOn June 20, the UN commences a long-awaited follow-up to the 1992 Conference on Environment and Development in Rio. Here's a guide to what could happen.
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SunEdison Turns to Big New Markets for Solar Power
• Kevin Bullis via TechnologyReview.comThe solar-panel installer is replacing diesel engines in villages in India and other Asian countries.
A sea of broken promises
• http://www.bio-medicine.org, Smita ChandraWorld leaders have made pitiful progress on their guarantee to protect global oceans from overfishing and other threats.
Infowars Exclusive: Massive Nuclear Secret Uncovered Inside Austin, Tx
• http://www.prisonplanet.comThe Infowars crew investigates a massive secret inside austin, texas that should raise the hair on the back of your head!
Battery Maker A123 Announces New Tech to Jump-Start Its Business
• Kevin Bullis .technologyreview.comA123 Systems says it has developed an improved version of its lithium-ion battery cells that could open up new applications for lithium-ion batteries and lower the cost of electric vehicles.
SunEdison Turns to Big New Markets for Solar Power
• Kevin Bullis .technologyreview.comThe solar-panel installer is replacing diesel engines in villages in India and other Asian countries.
Environmentalism 101– Issues We Need to Face if We Are to Save the World
• http://wakeup-world.com, By Jack CunninghamEnvironmentalism is the movement of the 21st century, or at least the movement of the modern world.
Green Police: Miami Beach To Make Recycling Compulsory
• http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph WatsonAudi’s infamous ‘Green Police’ Superbowl commercial may not be far off coming to fruition.
Earth Facing Imminent Environmental 'Tipping Point': Report
• http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staffBiosphere reaching an environmental 'state shift', says scientists
Interactive: New York's Roofscape Gets Climate Makeover
• http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/06/newWitness the evolution of NYC's billion-square-foot roofscape in the face of climate change.
New understanding of terrestrial formation has significant and far reaching future implications
• http://www.bio-medicine.org,The current theory of continental drift provides a good model for understanding terrestrial processes through history. However, while plate tectonics is able to successfully shed light on processes up to 3 billion years ago...
In tree rings, Japanese scientists find 8th-century mystery
• http://phys.org, AFPIn the late eighth century, Earth was hit by a mystery blast of cosmic rays, according to a Japanese study that found a relic of the powerful event in cedar trees.
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DEATH BY ENVIRONMENTALISM
Program Date:How long will Americans allow misguided environmentalism and bureaucratic complacency to endanger the lives of our citizens?
Time is ticking for some crop's wild relatives
• http://www.bio-medicine.org, Teri BarrA botanist brings a species of alfalfa from Siberia, to the United States. His hope? The plant survives, and leads to a new winter-hardy alfalfa. But what also happened during this time in the late 1800's, isn't just a story of legend and lore.
New report examines effects of trees killed by bark beetles on wildfire
• http://www.bio-medicine.org, Sherri EngA recent report analyzing a range of published studies on the impact of bark beetles on trees in the U.S. and Canada provides a more complete picture of the effect of this destructive insect on wildfires.
Landslides linked to plate tectonics create the steepest mountain terrain
• http://phys.org, byUniversity of WashingtonSome of the steepest mountain slopes in the world got that way because of the interplay between terrain uplift associated with plate tectonics and powerful streams cutting into hillsides, leading to erosion in the form of large landslides, new resear
40 Institutional Investors Demand Chevron Settle Ecuador Environmental Case
• http://www.marketwatch.comOnly days before its annual shareholder meeting, forty Chevron investors with $580 billion in assets under management have demanded the oil giant settle the $18 billion environmental lawsuit brought by impoverished indigenous groups in the Ecuadorian
Japan's Toxic Tsunami Debris Heads Towards North America
• http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staffChris Pallister of the Gulf of Alaska Keeper Organization: "This is more hazardous than oil"
Bluefin tuna caught off California contains radiation from Japan's Fukushima plant
• http://www.telegraph.co.ukBluefin tuna has carried radioactive contamination that leaked from Japan's crippled nuclear plant to the shores of the United States 6,000 miles away.
Going nuclear-free: Germany smashes solar power world record
• http://www.rt.comGermany’s solar power plants produced a record 22 gigawatts of energy on Friday, equivalent to the output of 20 nuclear plants.
Video: Paratrooping Roomba-Style Drone Concept Could Help Clean Oil Spills
• http://www.popsci.com, By Colin LecherClearing the muck from an oil spill is tough enough without having to worry about collateral damage, but designer Hsu Sean is looking to create a Roomba-like Bio-Cleaner drone that degrades oil while keeping animals out of harm’s way.
Australians Face Huge Fines For Speaking Ill Of New Carbon Tax
• http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph WatsonThe tax whose name cannot be spoken
Seagrasses can store as much carbon as forests
• http://phys.org, By Cheryl DybasSeagrasses are a vital part of the solution to climate change and, per unit area, seagrass meadows can store up to twice as much carbon as the world's temperate and tropical forests.
Illinois illegally seizes bees resistant to Roundup; kills remaining queens
• brianbrown.netA man who was researching the effects of Monsanto's Roundup on bees has had his bees confiscated by the Illinois Department of Agriculture and the remaining queens killed when officials illegally entered his property. Terrence Ingram, known for his s
Shell Oil in Nigeria: A Social and Environmental Disaster
• by Friends of the Earth InternationalSEVENTY THOUSAND PEOPLE ASK OIL GIANT SHELL TO CLEAN UP ITS MESS IN NIGERIA
The Canadian Oil Sand Mines Refused Us Access, So We Rented This Plane To See What They Were Up To
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Robert JohnsonWhen reaching out to Alberta oil sands companies before a trip to Canada last month, I thought all of them mined oil the same way — they don't.
Deadly air
• http://lapress.org,Some 14,000 people die each year from country´s air pollution.
Deep In Canada, This Facility Is Unlocking Earth's Biggest New Oil Supply
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Robert JohnsonWhen Business Insider decided to follow up a series of stories I wrote about Williston, North Dakota by sending me to the Alberta oil sands, I had no idea what I was getting myself into.
Why Arizona Gets Scorched by Severe Wildfires
• http://www.livescience.com, Wynne ParryA lightning strike and a house fire that ignited a propane tank are among the immediate causes of the wildfires torching thousands of Arizona acres, media reports say.
Island Imperiled by Rising Seas Battles Nature and Humans
• http://www.livescience.com, Charles ChoiThe island nation of Kiribati is one of the countries most threatened by rising sea levels. However, many of the floods it has seen may be due to a mix of natural variability and human activities, complicating the picture of how rising sea levels are
