Suzanne Goldenberg 11 August 2013 Barnhart, Texas (The Guardian) – Beverly McGuire saw the warning signs before the town well went dry: sand in the toilet bowl, the sputter of air in the tap, a pump working overtime to no effect. But it still did not prepare her for the night last month when she […]
By Lisa Graves8 August 2013 (PR Watch) – This morning in Chicago, hundreds of primarily Republican state legislators are getting more indoctrination against doing anything about climate change from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). This year, ALEC has chosen its long-time partner, the Heartland Institute, to help host the session. Heartland is so extreme […]
By Nathan Layne3 August 2013 TOKYO (Reuters) – Radioactive groundwater at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has risen to levels above a barrier being built to contain it, highlighting the risk of an increasing amount of contaminated water reaching the sea, Japanese media reported on Saturday. The Asahi newspaper, citing data from a Friday meeting […]
By Lindsay Fendt and Zachary Dyer 31 July 2013 Two months after the 26-year-old turtle conservationist was murdered on a Caribbean beach, police conduct several raids on the Caribbean coast and have at least 6 suspects in custody. More arrests are expected, police say. MOÍN, Limón (Tico Times) – Shortly after 5 a.m. on Wednesday, […]
By Jillian Rayfield July 27, 2013 (AlterNet) – As scientists agree that the problem of man-made climate change is getting more and more urgent, a review of their records reveals that all eight Republican senators on the Environment and Public Works Committee do not believe the phenomenon even exists. This sentiment was on full display […]
TOKYO, 27 July 2013 (Kyodo) – Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Saturday it has detected 2.35 billion becquerels of cesium per liter from water in an underground passage at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that is seeping into the sea, roughly the same level as seen in a contaminated water leak into the […]
By Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent 24 July 2013 (The Guardian) – Republicans in Congress who reject the science behind climate change could soon be reduced to political fossils, with new polling on Wednesday suggesting three-quarters of young voters find such views “ignorant, out of touch, or crazy”. The bipartisan poll conducted for the League […]
By CLIFFORD KRAUSS25 July 2013 HOUSTON (The New York Times) – Halliburton has agreed to plead guilty to destruction of critical evidence after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010, the Justice Department announced on Thursday. The oil services company said it would pay the maximum allowable fine of $200,000 and will be subject […]
By David Atkins 23 July 2013 (AlterNet) – David Leonhardt has a fantastic piece about social mobility in the United States. It turns out that the American Dream, while getting more and more distant across the board, is still much more possible in some places than in others. What places? Well, surprise surprise: Climbing the […]
By Aaron Huertas9 July 2013 (The Mercury) – The Mercury has published two opinion pieces in recent months that attack Pennsylvania State University climate researcher Michael Mann. Columnist Gil Spencer and contributor Steve Goreham both conveyed misinformation about climate science, but I find their personal attacks directed at Dr. Mann most troubling. I refer to […]
