Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility Climate Staff Urge EPA to Come Clean Before Congress

progressive newswire - Monday 20th May, 2013

"Professional Staff at EPA Has Nothing to Hide" Says Joint Letter to Johnson WASHINGTON - August 5 - The professional staff charged with developing greenhouse gas regulations at the Environmental Protection Agency want Administrator Stephen Johnson to come clean on how decisions were reached on key climate change issues, according to a joint letter released today by Public Employees ...

Greenpeace Documents Chemical Contamination In Ghana

progressive newswire - Monday 20th May, 2013

Research Confirms Microsoft and Dell Electronic Waste in Africa INTERNATIONAL - August 5 - A Greenpeace science team visiting two scrap yards in the capital city Accra and the city of Korforidua, Ghana, has confirmed that soil and sediment taken from two electronic waste (e-waste) scrap yards are severely contaminated with hazardous chemicals. This information was released today in a report ...

Discovery Channels North America – in pictures

The Guardian - Monday 20th May, 2013

North America's diverse climate, geography and wildlife are the subject of an impressive new series on the Discovery Channel. It is narrated by Chiwetel Ejiofor and spans the continent from the Canadian Rockies to the jungles of ...

We can let fission fizzle out in a renewable world

New Scientist - Monday 20th May, 2013

Why would anyone choose to reinvest in a form of power that seems not to have been harnessed properly? At Chernobyl and Fukushima the world had two very close shaves. Not a very impressive safety record for a technology that has been pampered with billions of dollars of investment over 60 ...

China to continue improvement of investment environment official

People's Daily - Monday 20th May, 2013

China will continue to facilitate foreign investment and enhance the protection of intellectual property rights in efforts to improve the investment environment, a senior official said Wednesday. "Improving investment environment and protecting the legal rights of foreign investors are not only the government's promises but also what the government is doing," Yu Jianhua, assistant ...

Rare UK crane egg given 24-hour guard

SBS - Monday 20th May, 2013

The common crane has been driven to extinction in Britain, so the first egg laid for more than 400 years is being closely guarded by ...

PGA partners with local groups to plant trees

News Channel 5 - Sunday 19th May, 2013

BALLWIN, Mo. (KSDK) - Bellerive Country Club will host the 2013 Senior PGA Championship later this week, but Sunday the PGA of America teamed up with local organizations and volunteers to plant 200 trees in Queeny Park. The PGA says the new trees will help offset the paper that will be used for the 74th Senior PGA event. The area where they will be planted was once covered by brush ...

EU judgement Ruling on assessment of costs in legal challenges on environment

Irish Times - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Where a national court is assessing costs against such a person, the cost of the proceedings "must neither exceed the financial resources of the person concerned nor appear, in any event, to be objectively ...

Mother wasps do the work Country diary 100 years ago

The Guardian - Sunday 19th May, 2013

The mother wasps, founders of the future colonies, are now busily house-hunting, town-planning, wood-pulp paper-making, or hunting for food for their first hungry infants. These wasps, large if compared with their children of later in the summer, work along the banks, creeping into possible holes, fly along the hedgerows in search of flies or to find suitable wood or fibres for conversion into ...

US Virgin Islands environment head arrested for drug trafficking

CBC News - Sunday 19th May, 2013

A seaside view from St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where the head of the three-island U.S. Caribbean territory's environment agency was arrested on drug trafficking charges. (Martinne ...

Drug charge for Virgin Islands environment officer

San Diego Union-Tribune - Sunday 19th May, 2013

KINGSTON, Jamaica -; Federal agents have arrested the top enforcement officer for the U.S. Virgin Islands environment agency on drug trafficking charges after he was allegedly caught with a cache of cocaine on a government patrol ...

Weatherwatch Keeping warm under a snowy blanket

The Guardian - Sunday 19th May, 2013

insects , reptiles, amphibians and mammals all take advantage of warmer temperatures, near constant humidity and an absence of biting winds. However, Jonathan Pauli, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his colleagues are concerned about signs that the subnivium is retreating.Writing in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, they say that since 1970 snow cover across the ...

Country diary Lake District A climb around natures Notre Dame

The Guardian - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Esk Buttress has been likened to Notre Dame, resplendent above the Great Moss, and reached from the south by a trod starting below Hardknott Pass. Up soggy Mosedale it goes, past Lincove Beck and under Long and Gait Crags. The buttress finally appears as depicted in William Heaton Cooper's most magnetic ...

Caribbean Scientist Warns of Climate Change Disaster

Common Dreams - Sunday 19th May, 2013

The Caribbean does not have the luxury of time for decisive action on climate change and global warming. In fact, it is on the brink of calamity, according to a prominent ...

Climate change meltdown unlikely but human disaster looms claims new research

The Guardian - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Some of the most extreme predictions of global warming are unlikely to materialise, new scientific research has suggested, but the world is still likely to be in for a temperature rise of double that regarded as safe.The researchers said that warming was most likely to reach about 4C above pre-industrial levels if the past decade's readings were taken into account.That would still lead to ...