2008-08-29 The Sun News
List of what to read this fall
Notable books coming out this fall: Fiction ''Divine Justice,'' David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing), the latest thriller from the author of ''Absolute...
2008-08-29 WTHR.com
Subaru Announces Pricing on New 2009 Impreza and Tribeca Models
- 2009 Impreza Includes Rear Disc Brakes, Brake Assist and Vehicle Dynamics Control (VDC) CHERRY HILL, N.J., Aug. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Subaru of America,...
2008-08-29 Honolulu Advertiser
Coral reefs in dire straits, experts say
KAILUA, KONA, Hawai'i By absorbing increasing amounts of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, the oceans are becoming increasingly acidic, weakening the world's coral reefs and threatening to unsettle the balance of entire ecosystems, experts...
2008-08-29 PR Newswire
Shocking Choice by John McCain, Says Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Senator John McCain just announced his choice for running mate: Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska. To follow is a statement by Rodger Schlickeisen, president of Defenders of Wildlife Action...
2008-08-29 Penn Energy
IPAMS to Democrats: Quit promoting dishonest energy claims
Oil & Gas Journal Nick Snow Washington Editor WASHINGTON, DC, Aug. 29 -- The Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States on Aug. 28 charged that governmental red tape and environmentalist hindrances are the primary causes of lease development delays, and it urged Democrats to cease the...
2008-08-29 Planetizen
Lasers May Make Nuclear Power More Efficient (and Bombs Easier to Make)
G.E. is currently experimenting with a new lased-based technology that could make nuclear enrichment much easier. This would be a boon to nuclear power, but would also make nuclear-based weapons easier to...
2008-08-29 Seacoast Online
Readings and Signings
Send readings & signings to features@seacoastonline.com. ALAN WEISMAN WILL SPEAK IN PORTSMOUTH on "The World Without Us," a tour of a post-human earth, as part of Seacoast Local's "Making the Connection" speaker series, Friday,...
2008-08-29 Oil & Gas Journal Exchange
IPAMS TO DEMOCRATS: QUIT PROMOTING DISHONEST ENERGY CLAIMS
IPAMS to Democrats: Quit promoting dishonest energy claims Aug-29-2008 Nick Snow Washington Editor WASHINGTON, DC, Aug. 29 -- The Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States on...
2008-08-29 Fargo Forum
Hunters, anglers advocate for wildlife in election
The nation's hunters and anglers, a big chunk of them Republicans or independents, are up for grabs this November because they want to hear what the candidates will do about climate change, open lands and water quality, says Larry Schweiger of the National Wildlife Federation.
2008-08-29 KLFY
Developing World 'Poorer Than We Thought,' Report Reveals
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New data released by the World Bank estimates that the number of poor people around the world is far higher than originally...
2008-08-29 PR Newswire
Subaru Announces Pricing on New 2009 Impreza and Tribeca Models
- 2009 Impreza Includes Rear Disc Brakes, Brake Assist and Vehicle Dynamics Control (VDC) - 2009 Impreza WRX Boasts an increase of 41 horsepower, new suspension tuning and an Aero Package - Newly introduced Impreza...
2008-08-29 STLtoday
Unsupervised outdoor play may soon be extinct
Bryant Whalen, 9, plays in the Matisse Creek near his grandmother's home. Whalen spends most of his summer days playing in the creek with other neighborhood...
2008-08-29 Calibre Macro World
Tsvangirai - Mugabe 'A Human Being After All'
(Zimbabwe Independent/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX News Network) -- ZIMBABWE'S opposition leader and President Robert Mugabe set aside years of bitter rivalry and talked like a father and son when they met for a private dinner last...
2008-08-29 Vallejo Times-Herald
Water board to sue over mothball fleet
The Bay Area's regional water board intends to sue the federal government over continuing contamination by the aging Suisun Bay mothball fleet, the agency said...
2008-08-29 Providence Business News
Fisherville refuge gains nearly 74 acres
BESIDES FORESTS, the 1,011-acre refuge off off Pardon Joslin Road in Exeter includes fields, streams, a pond and a historic cemetery. The new parcel includes the headlands of the pristine Queen...
2008-08-29 KITV 4
Sharks Found Trapped In Illegal Gill Net
Patrolling Nature Conservancy Members Find Net UPDATED: 5:01 am HST August 29, 2008 HONOLULU -- A Nature Conservancy team on patrol around Kaneohe Bay found an illegal gill with more than a dozen dead hammerhead...
2008-08-29 Minn Post
Another name for VP spot surfaces: Rob Portman of Ohio
Is John McCain preparing to pull off a surprise to slow Barack Obama's post-convention bounce by naming a low profile former congressman-turned Washington lobbyist who worked in both Bush White Houses as his running mate? That's what some McCain advisers and GOP insiders think might happen as they discussed.
2008-08-29 Macro World Investor
Cibola National Forest; New Mexico; McKinley County Easement for Forest Roads 191 and 191D
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (USDA) Forest Service Notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement. Citation: '73 FR 50929' Page Number: '50929' 'Notices' SUMMARY: The Department of Agriculture, Forest Service has initiated the process to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for a road..
2008-08-29 The State
Greener pastures can lead to 'greener' clothing
In the quest for a greener lifestyle, getting outfitted in eco-friendly clothes is one of the more ambitious aspirations as depicted in this photo...
2008-08-29 Union of Concerned Scientists
Advanced Vehicles and Fuels
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2008-08-29 Union of Concerned Scientists
What You Can Do
You can take both personal and policy steps toward reducing oil use and emissions from the transportation sector: How you drive and take care of your vehicle affects its fuel economy and emissions...
2008-08-29 Star Bulletin
Marine team sounds alarm for reefs
Fourteen scientists warn of the necessity of reducing carbon dioxide to save coral By Helen Altonn haltonn@starbulletin.com Recommendations to prevent what one scientist calls "osteoporosis of the reef" have been presented to the...
2008-08-29 US News
Changes to Endangered Species Act Called Bad Science
Changes that the Bush administration is proposing to make to Endangered Species Act regulations just aren't sound science, various scientists and conservation groups...
2008-08-29 The Wall Street Journal
McCain Taps Gov. Sarah Palin As Presidential Running Mate
Sen. John McCain picked first-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate Friday, adding a little-known but reform-minded woman to his ticket. At a rally in Dayton, Ohio, he said she has "strong principles, a fighting spirit and deep compassion," and praised her record of fighting...
2008-08-29 KMVT
Fire near Picabo
SHOSHONE- Bureau of Land Management Twin Falls District Fire and Aviation crews, along with Sawtooth National Forest and Rural Fire Department resources, are working to suppress the Nature Fire this...
2008-08-29 Clarion-Ledger
Mailboxes, signs put taste police in a tizzy
When I was a youngster in the Delta, my horticulturist and avid naturalist great-grandmother Pearl displayed a metal sign in her front yard that simply said 'Bird...
2008-08-29 Las Vegas Review Journal
EDITORIAL: Liquefied coal? Not so far-fetched
Gibbons plan not so crazy, after all Harken back to Nevada's 2006 gubernatorial campaign, when Jim Gibbons was roundly ridiculed by the Democratic establishment and its media enablers for suggesting the state develop a liquefied coal industry as part of its alternative energy...
2008-08-29 GW Hatchet
GW sustainability earns failing grade
Media Credit: Photo illustration by Viktors Dindzans/assistant photo editor A leading environmental group named GW one of the least eco-friendly campuses in the nation last week, a year after University President Steven Knapp made sustainability a top priority of his...
2008-08-29 Las Vegas Review Journal
EDITORIAL: Liquefied coal? Not so far-fetched
Gibbons plan not so crazy, after all Harken back to Nevada's 2006 gubernatorial campaign, when Jim Gibbons was roundly ridiculed by the Democratic establishment and its media enablers for suggesting the state develop a liquefied coal industry as part of its alternative energy...
2008-08-29 All About Jazz
Mosby Concert Raises More Than $5,000 for Nature Conservancy
The final tallies are in, and the results show that the benefit concert staged by St. Louis guitarist and composer Todd Mosby last month at Lucas School House raised more than $5,000 for the Nature Conservancy.
2008-08-29 Oprah.com
Tea Leoni's Books That Made
Life is too short to read bad books. On the actress's don't-miss list: stories of a girl standing up to her teacher, an immigrant family almost swallowed up by their new country, evilâ and the possibility of redemptionâ lurking in the next cubicle, and a pair of patriots led tragically...
2008-08-29 Honolulu Advertiser
12 SHARK PUPS DIE IN ILLEGAL GILL NET
The bodies of 12 dead hammerhead shark pups were found yesterday in Kane'ohe Bay near the Waikalua Fish Pond, reported the Nature Conservancy. They were caught in a gill net that was three times as wide as the legal limit and that had been left in place at least overnight and possibly for several...
2008-08-29 Port Huron Times-Herald
Eckert: State's failure to act will cost hunters dearly
Officials have killed the deer at that Kent County farm where Michigan's first case of chronic wasting disease was confirmed Tuesday. And they've killed off deer hunting in...
2008-08-29 Aspen Times
Hunters, anglers advocate for wildlife in election
DENVER â The nation's hunters and anglers, a big chunk of them Republicans or independents, are up for grabs this November because they want to hear what the candidates will do about climate change, open lands and water quality, says Larry Schweiger of the National Wildlife Federation.
2008-08-29 Care2 News Network
Sad News for Alaska's Wolves - Care2 News Network
have some sad news. Unfortunately, Alaska voters defeated a ballot initiative yesterday that would have ended the state's brutal aerial hunting...
2008-08-29 Gadsden Times
California Moves on Bill to Curb Sprawl and Emissions
SAN FRANCISCO â California, known for its far-ranging suburbs and jam-packed traffic, is close to adopting a law intended to slow the increase in emissions of heat-trapping gases by encouraging housing close to job sites, rail lines and bus stops to shorten the time people spend in their...
2008-08-29 Greentechmedia
Prop. 7: A Bad Idea for Renewable Energy?
Opponents of the renewable-energy proposition have launched attack ads on TV, saying the California measure would present an obstacle to achieving the state's clean-energy...
2008-08-29 Honolulu Star Bulletin
Marine team sounds alarm for reefs
Fourteen leading climate and marine scientists and coral reef managers from the U.S. and Australia developed the 'Honolulu Declaration on Ocean Acidification and Reef Management' during a workshop convened here by the Nature Conservancy two weeks...
2008-08-29 Mooresville Tribune
They'll be island hopping
Nearly one ton of debris. Thats how much trash the Save Our Lake Organization collected in and around Lake Norman last year during the NC Big Sweep. And the group expects to haul in much more this year with the help of the...
2008-08-29 Reno Gazette-Journal
Fish & Wildlife Service takes two-pronged approach to Walker Project
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has taken a two-pronged approach in its participation in the Walker River Basin Project: (1) A restoration program for the river itself; and(2) An improvement program for the Walker Lake...
2008-08-29 Huffington Post
Green Edge 7 - Bottled Water and the Fiji Flap
The Fiji flap is a surreal poster-child for the global trafficking in bottled water. Ten local bottlers (#1 is Fiji Water) fill Chinese-manufactured bottles with Fijian well-water and ship them to the United States, which has an abundance of clean...
2008-08-29 Mount Desert Islander
The magic of Mushrooms
This summerâ s long stretches of rain might have put a damper on many outdoor activities, but for wild mushroom fans, the wet weather has created an endlessly entertaining...
2008-08-29 Mount Desert Islander
Abbe hosts river program
The Penobscot River as seen through the camera lens of Penobscot Joe Dana.â PHOTO COURTESY OF ABBE MUSEUM BAR HARBOR â Two leading Penobscot Nation representatives, John Banks and Maria Girouard, will discuss the essential connection the Penobscot tribe has with the river that shares its name at a program.
2008-08-29 Los Angeles Chronicle
Assembly approves plan to invest in urgent water needs
California Political Desk SACRAMENTOâ Today, during a special legislative session on water, the State Assembly approved a proposal to spend prior voter approved bonds on urgently-needed water storage, reliability, and conservation...
2008-08-29 Honolulu Advertiser
16 hammerhead shark pups found dead in gill net
Nature Conservancy officials said they recovered the bodies of 16 dead hammerhead shark pups today in Kane'ohe Bay near the Waikalua Fish Pond. 'They were all dead,' Eric Conklin, marine science adviser for the Nature Conservancy...
2008-08-29 Chicago Tribune
Advised many investors
For many years, Chicago investment counselor James Kennan Hotchkiss made the daily commute by train to his office in the Loop, where loved ones say he took great pride in caring for his...
2008-08-29 Berkeley Daily Planet
Enviros Launch All-Out Campaign for Obama
DENVERNext to the Big Tent housing bloggers and policy forums here in Denver is an unmarked suite where some of the nations leading environmental activists are at...
2008-08-29 Greeley Tribune
Mailbox for Aug. 29
Americans demand more power to feed flat-screen TVs, video games, surround-sound systems, appliances and vehicles. Yet environmental groups including The Nature Conservancy, Sierra Club, Earthfirst, Earthjustice are active obstructionists to infrastructures experts verify as...
2008-08-29 Santa Barbara News
State news of national interest
12:32 AM EAST SUMMIT, Del. (AP) - The Army Corps of Engineers announced that the Summit Bridge over the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal will get an estimated $1 million in...
2008-08-29 Yale Daily News
Computers and the Law prof. Dunne dies
Your Name Your Email Friend's Name Friend's Email Message Submit Close Robert Dunne, the fiction writer who loved sailing, Christmas and E. B. White and the Yale lecturer who successfully merged law and computer science in the classroom, enticing hundreds of students to study piracy and cyberspace was...
2008-08-29 New Yorker
John Updike: New Yorker book covers.
Book covers and jackets might seem to hover beneath serious critical notice, but nothing human is alien to the academic discipline called cultural studies, be it baseball cards or vampire movies or female...
2008-08-29 Denver Post
UNC prof steering away from corn for biodiesel
His research focuses on plant species that are now...
2008-08-29 Los Angeles Times
Orange County judge keeps storm-drain runoff standards in place for now
An earlier ruling against the rules had frozen them, preventing builders from getting necessary California state permits. A Los Angeles regional board must review the...
2008-08-29 The Miami Herald
Ensuring an ocean legacy
TERRY GARCIAtgarcia@ngs.orgTwo years ago, President Bush set a new standard for global ocean protection when he created the world's largest no-take marine protected area in the Northwestern Hawaiian...
2008-08-29 Dallas Voice
Activist legend Del Martin dies at age 87
Martin and wife Phyllis Lyon shared 55-year relationship, were first same-sex couple to be legally married in California Del Martin Legendary lesbian activist Del Martin died Wednesday,...
2008-08-29 Wichita Eagle
Defining Ecotourism, Costa Rica 411
DEFINING ECOTOURISM What does ecotourism really mean and how do you know if you're getting a true 'green' experience or just buying into the latest marketing term? The Nature Conservancy and the World Conservation Union (IUCN) adopted this definition of ecotourism: 'Environmentally responsible travel..
2008-08-29 KHNL News 8
Experts offer plan to combat ocean acidification
KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) - Experts meeting on the Big Island say that by absorbing increasing amounts of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, the oceans are becoming increasingly...
2008-08-29 KHNL News 8
Hammerhead shark pups found dead on Windward Oahu
HONOLULU (AP) - More than a dozen hammerhead shark pups were found dead Thursday along Windward Oahu. Eric Conklin, marine science adviser for the Nature Conservancy, says the 16 shark pups were recovered from a gill net in Kaneohe Bay near the Waikalua Fish...
2008-08-29 Glenwood Independent
Drilling boom effects shown to thousands at DNC
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado â Thousands of people at the Democratic National Convention are getting an up-close look at Denver as well as the Rocky Mountain...
2008-08-29 Earth Justice
California Energy Commission Must Address Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Climate impacts of proposed plant in Carlsbad, California at issue Sacramento, CA -- On behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity, Earthjustice moved today to intervene in a power plant licensing proceeding before the California Energy...
2008-08-29 Honolulu Weekly
Say HI to Aai
Purple is the new green. Its like a royal beverage invasionNaked Purple Perfection, Purple: Lifes Superdrink, Perfect Purples, the list goes on. The color has taken the...
2008-08-29 The Providence Journal
Audubon Society adds land
EXETER An additional 73.6 acres of land, that contain the headwaters of the Queen River, have been added to the Audubon Society of Rhode Islands Fisherville Brook Wildlife...
2008-08-29 Planet Ark
Rich or Poor? New Faultline in UN Climate Talks
ACCRA - Rich countries are pushing developing nations with the strongest economies to do far more to combat climate change, opening a faultline between rich and poor in UN talks on global...
2008-08-29 Tri City Herald
Yard wars: One man's quest to grow native plants, neighbors say, pushes limits of green living
ORANGE, Calif. When the confrontations boil over on this otherwise quiet street, Valley Forge Drive, tempers flare, harsh words are traded, and city code enforcement is called in to...
2008-08-29 World News
Hunters, anglers advocate for wildlife in election The Examiner
Friday, 29 August 2008 Comments DENVER (Map, News) - The nation's hunters and anglers, a big chunk of them Republicans or independents, are up for grabs this November because they want to hear what the candidates will do about climate change, open lands and water quality, says Larry Schweiger of the...
2008-08-29 Riverside Press Enterprise
Owners of two Inland malls want teen voices heard
Teenagers younger than 18 can cast unofficial votes on their preferences for president Saturday and Sunday at the Galleria at Tyler in Riverside and the following weekend at the Moreno Valley...
2008-08-28 Richmond County Daily Journal
Sandhills Area Land Trust gets new director
Special to the Daily JournalThe Sandhills Area Land Trust recently appointed Dan A. Bell as its new executive director. Bell succeeds Richard Perritt,...
2008-08-28 Hunt Club Digest
Lots of Land for Sale in New York
Five high-acre lots with hunt club potential are now available in New York from The Nature Conservancy (Iriquois National Wildlife Refuge, N.Y. pictured courtesy Dorothy Thompson/USFWS).
2008-08-28 Grist Magazine
DNC: Dingell ducks
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair John Dingell (D-Mich.) spoke yesterday at an event sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation -- 'I Fish, I Hunt, I Vote Conservation' -- where he talked up conservation efforts and the common ground Democrats have with...
2008-08-28 Tucson Weekly
GRAZING AWAY
Tim Vanderpool Greta Anderson: 'If (the BLM) can't properly manage one of the monument uses, they should just not allow it.' Conservationists were ecstatic when, in the waning days of his presidency, Bill Clinton created a string of new monuments across the...
2008-08-28 NBC 6
Gustav Won't Stop Louisiana RNC Delegation
Three years ago this week, New Orleans City Council member Jay Batt had a tree through the front of his home and eight feet of water on his property after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf...
2008-08-28 WCHS-TV
Fiesta heir leaves $9M to conservation group
An heir to the Fiesta tableware fortune has left $9 million to The Nature Conservancy. The money from the estate of Robert Wells will be used to support conservation efforts around the...
2008-08-28 Post Chronicle
EPA Sued For Info Honeybee Deaths
The Natural Resources Defense Council alleges the pesticide clothianidin is responsible for mysterious deaths in U.S. honey bee colonies. The NRDC has filed a lawsuit accusing the...
2008-08-28 Macro World Investor
EPA sued for honeybee death info
The Natural Resources Defense Council has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regarding information on the pesticide...
2008-08-28 Morningstar.com
UPDATE:Treasury Names Pizer Deputy Asst Secretary For Environment,Energy
(Adds details) By Meena Thiruvengadam Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- A man widely considered the greenest U.S. Treasury Secretary in history has tapped a Harvard-educated environmentalist to lead a new office that will focus on issues including climate change and clean...
2008-08-28 Evansville Courier
Board eyes new creek clearing Two more miles of Canoe Creek will be cleared and widened if city and county officials accept a recommendation from the city-county Flood Mitigation Board. The board on Tuesday voted unanimously to recommend expanding Ph
Two more miles of Canoe Creek will be cleared and widened if city and county officials accept a recommendation from the city-county Flood Mitigation...
2008-08-28 Benton County Daily Record
River diagnostics
CASS The Mulberry River was the focus of a river wellness program conducted last week by experts with The Nature Conservancy and the Ozark National...
2008-08-28 Reporter
Violet Malesevich Bachhuber
, 93, formerly of 920 Dayton St., Mayville, WI, 53050, died Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008, at Theda Clark Medical Center, Neenah, of complications resulting from a broken...
2008-08-28 Redlands Daily Facts
Vote for equality and freedom for all
Very recently we read in the Facts about the marriage of two men, longtime Redlands educators and pillars in the community. We wish them happiness. Yesterday a man came to our door with literature touting Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment which, if passed, would negate the recent California Supreme...
2008-08-28 Newsvine
EPA Buzz Kill - What Are They Hiding About Colony Collapse Disorder?
Is the Agency Hiding Colony Collapse Disorder Information? NRDC Forced to Sue to Get Public Records on Bee Mystery WASHINGTON - August 18 - The Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit today to uncover critical information that the US government is withholding about the risks posed by.
2008-08-28 NBC11
Honolulu Declaration Offers Ways to Curb Ocean Acidification
KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii -- As the oceans absorb increasing amounts of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, they are becoming increasingly acid, weakening the world's coral...
2008-08-28 Tucson Citizen
Conservation group rates UA 'exemplary' for sustainability efforts
RENÉE SCHAFER HORTON Tucson Citizen The University of Arizona has been singled out as one of the best campuses in the nation for sustainability...
2008-08-28 Free Republic
Queen falls 35 places on Forbes list of most powerful women
| Aislinn Simpson Posted on 08/27/2008 9:32:05 PM PDT by bruinbirdman Last year, the publicity that followed Helen Mirren's portrayal of the monarch in an award-winning film and the sheer length of her time on the throne saw her move up from 46th place to...
2008-08-28 San Luis Obispo.com
Calif. bill would try to reduce global warming by tying funding to smart growth' projects
For 30 years, as California's growing population led to sprawling suburbs, traffic jams and fewer farms, attempts to craft statewide laws to stop it have failed again and...
2008-08-28 Idaho Mountain Express
Silver Creek fire now 10,000 acres
The so-called 'Nature Fire' near Picabo is now estimated at 10,000 acres, according to the Bureau of Land Management. The blaze began three miles southwest of Picabo, adjacent to the Silver Creek Nature Conservancy.
2008-08-28 TampaBay.com (AP)
Cheap meat was never a free lunch
If you are searching for signs that today's high food prices won't last, the latest report on the meat industry isn't promising. In May, a distinguished panel of scientists and meat industry officials concluded that the current "factory farm" method for mass-producing meat poses so many threats to public...
2008-08-28 Insurance News Net
Study Claims Federal Cat Fund Would Cost Hundreds of BillionsLoading...
Losses covered by federal proposals to add windstorm coverage to the National Flood Insurance Program and to create a system of loans and reinsurance to state residual market mechanisms and catastrophe funds could reach $230 billion in five...
2008-08-28 Hartford Courant
Gardeners Can Save Butterflies
Q: Where are the butterflies? In past years, the yard has been full of them, beginning in early spring. This year, there are two or three at a time, and they have just begun to...
2008-08-28 The Mining Journal
Budget woes hit U.P. forests
MUNISING - The cost of fighting large fires in California and elsewhere is forcing the U.S. Forest Service to divert hundreds of millions of dollars set aside for work including roads, trails, recreational improvements - even fire...
2008-08-28 NBC 10
School District In Ga. Loses Accreditation
A Georgia county's school district has become the first in several years to lose its accreditation. Clayton County Commissioner Eldrin Bell confirmed the loss of the accreditation Thursday, shortly before the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools was to announce the...
2008-08-28 TMCnet
K-STATE: Digital Ethnography of Maine's Wabanaki Indians By Two K-State Anthropologists Available Online at National Park Web Site
(M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) RDATE:28082008 MANHATTAN -- Two Kansas State University anthropologists are the authors of the first-ever cultural history of the Wabanaki, indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting what is now protected as part of Acadia National Park on the coast of...
2008-08-28 Nasdaq
UPDATE:Treasury Names Pizer Deputy Asst Secretary For Environment,Energy
(Adds details) By Meena Thiruvengadam Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- A man widely considered the greenest U.S. Treasury Secretary in history has tapped a Harvard-educated environmentalist to lead a new office that will focus on issues including climate change and clean...
2008-08-28 World View Magazine Online
A warming planet creates a host of threats
IMPACTS OCCURRING NOW We are now observing widespread changes to our world that the IPCC attributes to global warming. Warmer conditions have melted arctic sea ice 20% from 1979 to 2006 and melted...
2008-08-28 United press international
EPA sued for info honeybee deaths
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- The Natural Resources Defense Council alleges the pesticide clothianidin is responsible for mysterious deaths in U.S.
2008-08-28 Street Insider
Developing World 'Poorer Than We Thought,' Report Reveals
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New data released by the World Bank estimates that the number of poor people around the world is far higher than originally...
2008-08-28 YubaNet
Bush Administration Ignores Science-based Recovery Plan
CHARLESTON, W.V. Aug. 27, 2008 - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declared Tuesday that it has removed the West Virginia northern flying squirrel from protection under the Endangered Species Act " despite the squirrel's small population and the looming threat that climate change poses to its...
2008-08-28 Earthtimes.org
Developing World 'Poorer Than We Thought,' Report Reveals
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 Bread-for-the-World WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New data released by the World Bank estimates that the number of poor people around the world is far higher than originally...
2008-08-28 MSNBC
My wife and I donâ t have sex anymore
Q. My wife, 48, and I, 50, do not have sex anymore. We havenâ t for several years, and it was infrequent even then. She says she doesnâ t want sex with me until we regain the intimacy we had earlier in our...
2008-08-28 Direct
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2008-08-28 Chattanooga Times Free Press
Tennessee Valley Authority asks NRC to reinstate permit to build original Bellefonte reactors
Two decades after suspending construction at the Bellefonte Nuclear Power Plant, the Tennessee Valley Authority announced Wednesday it wants federal regulators to reinstate a construction permit for the original twin-reactor...
2008-08-28 Check Out
Green Gaming? YUP!
This has been a very interesting week for us in Bentonville. We had the opportunity to bring in folks from Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony as well as Electronic Arts, Activision and American Game Factory for a green gaming...
2008-08-28 Current
Disappearing Honeybees Mystery Solved?
Colony collapse may have been caused by Bayer CropScience pesticide clothianidin. Excerpt from article: "We're suspecting that Bayer submitted flawed studies to play down the risks of pesticide residues in treated plants," said Harro Schultze , the coalition's...