Massive finback whale beached in New York City
• The RawStory.comA massive whale, some 60 feet (18 meters) long, beached itself on Wednesday morning in New York City, where, despite rescue efforts, it seemed to have little chance of survival.
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Russia’s brutal early winter claims 123 lives
• The RawStory.comA bitter cold spell in Russia has claimed 123 lives in the past 10 days, an official said Tuesday, with the unseasonably early freeze testing authorities in a country used to notoriously tough winters.
EPA allows uranium mining that pumps toxic waste into Wyoming drinking water
• RawstoryAs dry as this land may be, underground, vast reservoirs hold billions of gallons of water suitable for drinking. Yet every day injection wells pump 200,000 gallons of toxic and radioactive waste from uranium mining into Christensen’s aquifers.
Three years after the quake, Haitian refugees fight Christmas misery
• The RawStory.comWhile people around the world celebrate the arrival of Christmas, residents of a refugee camp in Haiti say hunger and want will mark the holiday, like every other day of the year.
Vegetable Waste to Zero Waste
• arcleinThe Chilean community of La Pintana has found that recycling the largest segment of their waste – fruits, vegetables, and yard clippings – can save them money, produce valuable compost, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The program cost very littl
Report: Ecosystems in Upheaval, Biodiversity in Collapse
• Common DreamsNew study documenting climate change shows sweeping changes happening faster than previously recorded and bringing 'cascading effects'
Lessons from the Maya prophecy – whether the world 'ends' or not
• Christian Science MonitorInstead of focusing on Maya predictions of the ‘end of the world,’ some are shifting attention to problems today that may have contributed to the Maya collapse – like environmental damage.
Suffocating The World – The Disastrous Effects of Plastic Bags
• http://wakeup-world.com, By Scott MorefieldThe 1980’s saw the gradual shift from paper to plastic shopping bags in grocery stores all across the developed world.
Carbon Tax Could Come After Fiscal Cliff Deal
• BreitbartAccording to one former member of the White House Climate Change Task Force under President Clinton, President Obama may have plans to implement a carbon tax as soon as the fiscal cliff negotiations are settled.
Hillary Clinton's Environmental Failures Could Become Obama's
• Common DreamsHillary isn't winning many friends among environmentalists with her support of the Keystone Pipeline--and it will be the purest test of whether Obama's second term will be greener than his first.
Synthetic fuel the answer to U.S. oil dependence
• http://chrisinmaryville.net/The U.S. can eliminate its dependency on crude oil if the country switched to production of synthetic fuel using a combination of non-food crops, natural gas and coal, according to researchers at Princeton University. In a paper produced by the Am
Ashtabula - A Sacrifice Zone to Greed
Melinda Pillsbury-fosterChildren struggle to breathe, elderly people die sooner, so the greedy can profit.
Happening Now: Tar Sands Activists Barricade Themselves Inside Keystone XL
• Common DreamsAnother act in Tar Sands Blockade's ceaseless fight against TransCanada's pipeline
Bella Gaia
• http://world.the-environmentalist.orgA new and unforgettable video by director and composer, Kenji Williams, compiling views from NASA and other sources of the Bella Gaia, the beautiful Earth.
Massive Sinkhole Still Growing – Ohio: 4 Football Fields Long, 30′ Deep Shuts Down 8 Mile Stre
• http://chrisinmaryville.net/Another massive sinkhole has emerged, this time outside of Dover, Ohio. According to WTOV9, emergency crews have been forced to close down an 8-mile stretch along a road in Tuscarawas County because of the rapidly growing monster. Officials said t
Persistence or Extinction Calculated
• arcleinAllee effect," the phenomenon by which a population's growth declines at low densities, is another key reason for perishing populations, and is an overriding feature of a paper published last month in the SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics.
Greenland and Antarctica 'have lost four trillion tonnes of ice' in 20 years
• guardian.co.uk• Landmark study by global team of scientists published • Finds melting polar ice has led to 11mm rise in sea level • Greenland losing ice five times faster than early 1990s
New Film 'Stand' Documents Risks of Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipeline
• Common DreamsBritish Columbian filmmakers Nicolas Teichrob and Anthony Bonello are leading a grassroots campaign to protect BC’s waters from Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline.
Burning All the Carbon Will Burn Us All
• Common DreamsOur Climate Future and the Doha Summit
Leave the Carbon in the Ground: An Open Letter to Governments and Their Negotiators
• Common DreamsTo really address climate change UNFCCC-COP18 should decide to leave under the soil more than 2/3 of the fossil reserves
U.S. bans BP from new government contracts after oil spill deal
• ReutersThe U.S. government banned BP Plc from new federal contracts on Wednesday over its "lack of business integrity" in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, a move that could imperil the British energy giant's U.S. footing.
Politicians urged to seize the moment on climate change after Sandy
• The Guardian via RawStory.comHurricane Sandy might be fresh in the American public’s memory, but for advocates seeking action on climate change time is running out.
Doubts as greenhouse gas leader hosts climate meet
• RawStory.comQatar has much to prove in the coming days as the fossil fuel producing nation with the world’s largest per capita carbon footprint hosts the 18th UN climate change conference.
Delhi government widens ban on plastic: ‘Plastic is an environmental disaster’
• RawStory.comThe Delhi government imposed a blanket ban on the use of all plastic bags on Friday in an attempt to tackle the city’s mounting rubbish problems, an official said.
Anti-consumerist ‘Reverend’: Black Friday boosts global warming
• Arturo Garcia via RawStory.comIn an interview with MSNBC host Alex Witt, Reverend Billy Talen of the Church of Stop Shopping linked the journey of millions to storefronts on Black Friday to the global warming that ultimately fueled Superstorm Sandy.
Artists stage exhibit of trash found on Mount Everest
• RawStory.comA group of artists is staging an exhibition of sculptures made from tonnes of trash collected on Mount Everest, highlighting the toll that decades of mountaineering have taken on the world’s highest peak.
Greenhouse gases rose to record levels in 2011: UN
• RawStory.comThe volume of greenhouse gases causing global warming rose to a new high last year, the UN World Meteorological Organization said Tuesday, warning it is becoming increasingly unlikely the world can limit rising temperatures to UN-backed targets.
UN: Goals on curbing greenhouse gases even further out of reach
• RawStory.comThe gap has widened between countries’ pledges for reducing climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and what is needed to keep planet warming in check, the UN warned.
More eruptions expected as N. Zealand ‘Lord of the Rings’ volcano disrupts flights
• RawStory.comLingering ash from a volcanic eruption in New Zealand disrupted flights across parts of the North Island on Thursday, as scientists warned the mountain could blow again at any time.
An Annotated Guide To Mining The Seafloor
• Elbert Chu via PopSci.comRemotely operated excavators for mining in the abyss
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