Environment
Respect urged for Japan's tsunami flotsam landing on U.S. coastlines
A floating black 55-gallon drum was found by a cleaning crew on a beach at the northwest tip of Washington state recently. What's interesting about
Japan Earthquake Update (12 March 2011 2110 CET)
by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Saturday, March 12, 2011 at 12:07pm Japanese authorities have informed the IAEA that the explosion at Unit 1 ...
Japan awaits word on possible nuclear reactor leak
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has issued an emergency decree regarding the possibility of leaking radiation from the damaged Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCo) multi-reactor ...Dangerous High-Level Nuclear Waste with Nowhere to Go
The Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future is meeting January 26-28 in Atlanta, Georgia By Celia Sampol, DC Bureau Many nuclear power advocates appeared in front ...
Who Owns Wild Rice?
by Jeff Nygaard, Nygaard Notes Whenever we look at the world from an indigenous perspective the issues of ownership and wealth come up almost immediately. In ...
The test behind our water pollution program failures
by Peter Maier, PhD, PE Sewage contains carbonaceous (fecal) waste and nitrogenous (urine and protein) waste, which both are used by two different types of bacteria. ...
World going nuts over California almonds
Bakersfield, Calif. -- California almond growers announced a record 1.65- billion-pound production of almonds for local consumption and export in a recent harvest. Reflecting a ...
Grain importers pestered by beetle larvae arriving in rice shipments
Port of Los Angeles, Calif. -- For the fourth time since November 2010 U. S. Customs and Border Protection Agency (CBP) agriculture specialists have seized ...
Federal Protection of Wilderness Study Areas Reinstated
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today restored a policy allowing the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which he oversees, to recommend undeveloped lands for federal protection ...
Kimberly-Clark on a roll to eliminate toilet paper tubes
Kimberly-Clark plans to help save the environment by introducing tubeless toilet paper rolls, therefore reducing landfill use by eliminating billions of paper tubes from being ...
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- UK scientists combine old and new technology to measure volcanic dust cloud
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