EPA Loopholes Allow Biomass To Pollute More Than Coal, Study Says
"Study finds air emissions from biomass facilities could be dramatically improved if so-called loopholes are closed in power plant regulations."
Source: InsideClimate News, 04/11/2014
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"Pollution Fears Crush Home Prices Near Fracking Wells"
"Whether or not fracking causes groundwater pollution, people fear the risk enough that property values have dropped for homes with drinking-water wells near shale-gas pads, according to new research."
Source: Forbes, 04/11/2014
Powerful Cyclone Nears Australia's Northeast, Evacuations Ordered
"Tourists and coastal residents were evacuating parts of the Great Barrier Reef on Thursday as a powerful cyclone intensified in the Coral Sea and made its way towards Australia's northeast."
Source: Reuters, 04/11/2014
"El Nino More Than 50 Percent Likely By Summer: US Weather Forecaster"
"The chances have increased over the past month that the much-feared El Nino phenomenon, which has the potential to wreak havoc on global crops, would strike by summer in the Northern Hemisphere, the federal U.S. weather forecaster said Thursday."
Source: Reuters, 04/11/2014
"Hollywood Heavyweights Put Climate Change Manifesto on TV"
"As temperatures continue to rise and habitats come under threat, a group of Hollywood heavyweights is seeking to bring the spotlight back on climate change with a new documentary."
Source: Reuters, 04/11/2014
"Poachers Attack Beloved Elders of California, Its Redwoods"
"It was an unlikely crime scene: a steep trail used by bears leading to a still, ancient redwood grove. There, a rare old-growth coast redwood had been brutally hacked about 15 times by poachers, a chain saw massacre that had exposed the tree’s deep red heartwood."
Source: NY Times, 04/10/2014
"Bill Seeks To Block Mandatory GMO Food Labeling By States"
"A Republican congressman from Kansas introduced legislation on Wednesday that would nullify efforts in multiple states to require labeling of genetically modified foods."
Source: Reuters, 04/10/2014
"Autism Triggered in the Womb by 'Environmental Factors'"
"Autism can be triggered by abnormal levels of lipid molecules in the brain that affect the interaction between two key neural pathways in early brain development in the womb, researchers at York University have learned."
Source: ENS, 04/10/2014
"Climate Changes To Result in Bird, Reptile Shifts"
"ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As temperatures climb across the Southwest, researchers have found some species will win, but others stand to lose — and lose big."
Source: AP, 04/10/2014
"Colorado Tumbleweeds Overrun Drought Areas"
"Mini-storms of tumbleweed have invaded the drought-stricken prairie of southern Colorado, blocking rural roads and irrigation canals, and briefly barricading homes and an elementary school."
Source: AP, 04/10/2014
