"Navy Funds A Small Robot Army To Study The Arctic"
"Earlier this month the U.S. Navy's research office rented out a conference center in Washington, D.C., to show off some of its hottest new technology."
Source: NPR, 02/16/2015
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"Commercial Drone Rules To Limit Their Weight, Speed And Altitude"
Small pilotless remote-controlled "drones," which have promise for many kinds of environmental journalism, are finally coming under tentative regulation from the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA released proposed rules Sunday.
Source: NPR, 02/16/2015
Starving Sea Lions Dying Off in Alarming Numbers on California Coast
"For the past five weeks, volunteers have been desperately trying to nurse back to health more than a hundred sea lions found stranded along the state's beaches in a mystery that's threatening one of California's most lovable sea creatures."
Source: San Jose Mercury News, 02/16/2015
"U.S. Wildlife Managers Mark Population Rise for Rare Wolf"
"The number of imperiled wolves found only in the American Southwest climbed to 109 in 2014, marking the fourth consecutive year that the population of Mexican gray wolves has risen by at least 10 percent, federal wildlife managers said Friday."
Source: Reuters, 02/16/2015
"Gene-Altered Apples Get U.S. Approval"
"The government on Friday approved the commercial planting of genetically engineered apples that are resistant to turning brown when sliced or bruised."
Source: NY Times, 02/16/2015
Judge Dismissses Wetlands Damage Suit Against Oil, Gas Companies
"A federal judge on Friday (Feb. 13) dismissed a controversial wetlands damage lawsuit filed by the east bank levee authority against more than 80 oil, gas and pipeline companies, ruling that the authority failed to make a valid claim against the energy firms."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 02/16/2015
"Draft Treaty Aims for Fossil-Free Future With Many Pages, Few Answers"
"During a week of United Nations climate negotiations in Geneva, the draft of a new treaty got longer and more complex, rather than shorter and simpler as leaders had planned. That may nonetheless represent progress, according to participants and environmentalists."
Source: InsideClimate News, 02/16/2015
"The Cost of Clean Coal"
Mississippi Power, a subsidiary of the Southern Company, is building a so-called "clean coal" plant in Mississippi. The cost has ballooned from the original estimate of $1.8 billion to the current $6.17 billion (and counting). As the residents of rural Kemper County can tell you, that is just the beginning. It will strip mine lignite from 48 square miles of timber and pasture land.
Source: Grist, 02/13/2015
"Wild Horse Advocates Win Halt to Thinning of Famous Herd"
"A federal judge has granted two animal protection groups a unusual preliminary injunction to stop the Bureau of Land Management’s roundup of more than 330 wild horses in northern Nevada, saying the government cannot rely on a five-year-old environmental analysis that ignores claims the herd would be harmed by a pesticide given as a form of birth control."
Source: ENS, 02/13/2015
"A Forest’s Family Roots Stand in a Pipeline’s Path"
An ecological treasure, a forest maintained by the Kernan Family in upstate New York for seven decades, is now "threatened by the construction of the Constitution Pipeline, a $700 million, 124-mile conduit designed to transport natural gas from the Marcellus Shale fields of northeast Pennsylvania" to pipelines serving markets in New York and New England.
Source: NY Times, 02/13/2015
