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  • Australia passes landmark carbon price laws
    published on November 7th, 2011 at 09:35 PM
    Australia's parliament passed landmark laws to impose a price on carbon emissions on Tuesday in one of the biggest economic reforms in a decade, giving new impetus to December's global climate talks in South Africa.
  • Study tallies health costs of climate disasters
    published on November 7th, 2011 at 09:35 PM
    Natural disasters tied to climate change not only cause physical damage but create significant health costs in terms of hospitalizations and lives lost, according to a study published Monday.
  • (Incandescent) lights to go out in China
    published on November 4th, 2011 at 09:35 PM
    China announced Friday it will phase out incandescent light bulbs within five years in an attempt to make the world's most polluting nation more energy efficient.
  • Warming gases saw biggest jump on record
    published on November 3rd, 2011 at 09:35 PM
    The global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide jumped by the biggest amount on record, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated.
  • NYC-sized iceberg being born on Antarctica
    published on November 2nd, 2011 at 09:35 PM
    Scientists on an aerial survey of Antarctica have come across an 18-mile-long break in an ice shelf, a sign that the unstable area is giving birth to an iceberg likely to be larger than New York City.
  • Climate scientist sparks protest
    published on October 31st, 2011 at 09:35 PM
    MINNEAPOLIS — The annual meeting of the Geological Society of America isn't the type of affair one might associate with outrage among the citizenry — or anyone, really.
  • Skeptic finds he now agrees global warming is real
    published on October 31st, 2011 at 09:35 PM
    A prominent physicist and skeptic of global warming spent two years trying to find out if mainstream climate scientists were wrong. In the end, he determined they were right: Temperatures really are rising rapidly.
  • Crop scientists fret about heat, not just water
    published on October 24th, 2011 at 09:35 PM
    Crop scientists in the United States, the world's largest food exporter, are pondering an odd question: could the danger of global warming really be the heat?
  • Insuring against extreme weather
    published on October 13th, 2011 at 09:35 PM
    Future of Tech: A high-tech crop insurance company aims to make farming profitable — and a profit for itself — by writing policies that offer protection against floods, frosts, droughts and other bouts of crop-damaging weather that are on the rise.
  • Fall colors arrive later? Warming studied as factor
    published on October 6th, 2011 at 09:35 PM
    Clocks may not be the only thing falling back: That signature autumn change in leaf colors may be drifting further down the calendar.
  • Canada's Arctic ice shelves breaking up fast
    published on September 30th, 2011 at 09:35 PM
    Canada in just six years has lost nearly 50 percent of the ice shelf area that holds back glacial ice from melting into the ocean, scientists report.
  • More ships take shortcut via less icy Arctic
    published on September 28th, 2011 at 09:35 PM
    A Danish shipper says it saved a third of the cost and nearly half the time in shipping goods to China by taking advantage of receding Arctic ice to sail north of Russia instead of via the Suez Canal.

msnbc.com: Environment

  • Israel becomes lab for electric car network
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 12:16 PM

    The electric car network created in Israel includes battery-swapping stations like this one.Israeli entrepreneur Shai Agassi has begun rolling out the world's first nationwide electric car network. Now, will the drivers come?




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  • EPA: Alaska mine could degrade premier salmon runs
    published on May 18th, 2012 at 12:16 PM

    Rivers and streams in the world's premier wild salmon fishery would be greatly degraded for decades should a vast mine be built and then see a failure in the dam holding back its mine waste, the U.S. EPA said in a draft report.Rivers and streams in the world's premier wild salmon fishery would be greatly degraded for decades should a vast mine be built and then see a failure in the dam holding back its mine waste, the U.S. EPA said in a draft report.




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  • 800-year-old cedar tree died death of a thousand cuts
    published on May 18th, 2012 at 12:16 PM

    The death of an ancient cedar tree inside a remote park on Canada's Vancouver Island is being showcased by an environmental group seeking more protection against illegal loggers.The death of an ancient cedar tree inside a remote park on Canada's Vancouver Island is being showcased by an environmental group seeking more protection against illegal loggers.




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    published on May 18th, 2012 at 12:16 PM

  • Katrina levees as historic sites?
    published on May 17th, 2012 at 12:16 PM

    Sandy Rosenthal, founder of levees.org, stands near a section of the old Lower 9th Ward levee wall, left, and the new levee wall at one of the breach sites from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.Sites where levee failures led to the catastrophic flooding after Hurricane Katrina would join a federal list of the nation's historic icons if an activist has her way.




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  • Summer forecast: hot and dry -- with western wildfires
    published on May 17th, 2012 at 12:16 PM




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  • 'Green Team' kids urge Crayola to recycle plastic markers
    published on May 17th, 2012 at 12:16 PM

    They may be small in stature, but kids at a California elementary school have gotten more than 55,000 people to sign an online petition asking Crayola to "take back" and recycle used plastic markers.They may be small in stature, but kids at a California elementary school have gotten more than 55,000 people to sign an online petition asking Crayola to "take back" and recycle used plastic markers.




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  • Main Apple data center to tap only renewable power
    published on May 17th, 2012 at 12:16 PM

    Customers enter the Apple flagship retail store to purchase the new iPad in San Francisco, California March 16, 2012. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith(Reuters) - Apple Inc plans to power its main, North Carolina data center entirely with renewable energy sources by the end of this year, taking steps to address longstanding environmental concerns about the rapid expansion of high-consuming computer server farms.




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  • Rocky Mountain cave closure sought over bat disease
    published on May 16th, 2012 at 12:16 PM

    An undated photo courtesy of the US Fish & Wildlife Service shows a little brown bat hanging at Greeley Mine in Stockbridge, Vt., and affected by white-nose syndrome. The deadly fungal disease that has killed millions of bats in North America is likely caused by a pathogen that came from Europe, international researchers said in April.The U.S. government is seeking to close caves in national forests in the Northern Rockies to stem the spread of white-nose bat syndrome, a disease that has killed an estimated 5.5 million bats in 19 states and is spreading westward, officials said on Wednesday.




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  • WTO rules against U.S. "dolphin safe" tuna
    published on May 16th, 2012 at 12:16 PM
    GENEVA (Reuters) - A World Trade Organization appellate panel on Wednesday said U.S. "dolphin safe" tuna labeling rules unfairly discriminate against Mexico, raising the possibility of sanctions on U.S. goods if the rules are not modified or dropped.

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  • U.S. lowers cutoff for lead poisoning in kids
    published on May 16th, 2012 at 12:16 PM
    For the first time in 20 years, U.S. health officials have lowered the threshold for lead poisoning in young children.

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  • Hawaii first state to ban plastic bags at checkout
    published on May 16th, 2012 at 12:16 PM
    By now, it’s hardly news when a city bans plastic bags at checkout counters -- but an entire state? That’s happened in Hawaii, where Honolulu County has joined the state’s three other counties to give Hawaii a first-in-the-nation title.

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  • Offline Calif. nuclear plant under fire
    published on May 16th, 2012 at 12:16 PM
    The idled San Onofre nuclear power plant is facing new scrutiny from Congress as the utility that operates it moves closer to proposing a fix to get the twin reactors back in service.

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    published on May 16th, 2012 at 12:16 PM

  • Nuclear plant drills, test evacuations pared back
    published on May 16th, 2012 at 12:16 PM
    Without fanfare, the nation's nuclear power regulators have overhauled community emergency planning for the first time in more than three decades.

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  • Gas leak off Scotland's coast plugged after 7 weeks
    published on May 16th, 2012 at 12:16 PM
    A gas leak on a North Sea oil platform has been stopped after more than seven weeks, its operators said Wednesday. Heavy mud was pumped into the well in a bid to "kill" the leak on Total's Elgin platform, which is around 150 miles from Aberdeen, Scotland.

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Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines

  • Study: Female athletes take longer to get over concussions
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    FRIDAY, May 18 (HealthDay News) -- Female athletes take longer to recover from concussions, a new study says.
  • World leaders back Greece, vow to combat financial turmoil
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    CAMP DAVID, Maryland (Reuters) - World leaders backed keeping Greece in the euro zone on Saturday and vowed to take all steps necessary to combat financial turmoil while revitalizing a global economy increasingly threatened by Europe's debt crisis. A summit of the G8 leading industrialized nations came down solidly in favor of a push to balance European austerity - an approach long driven by German Chancellor Angela Merkel - with a dose of U.S.-style stimulus seen as vital to healing ailing euro-zone economies. ...
  • Yachtsman kicks off Olympic torch relay in Britain
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    The Olympic flame was greeted by thousands of cheering spectators as it began its 70-day relay journey around Britain and Ireland on Saturday ahead of the 2012 London Games.
  • L.A. police arrest 2 in killings of Chinese students
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    A day after arrests were announced in the shooting deaths of two international graduate students near the University of Southern California, students on campus say they're relieved but that the crime hasn't changed their day-to-day behavior.
  • Records: Joplin twister was costliest since 1950
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    The cost of 30 manhole covers that got sucked away: $5,800. A new concession stand at the destroyed high school: $228,600. Shelter and care for more than 1,300 homeless pets: $372,000.
  • Syria bomb kills 9, Damascus blames foreign plot
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    BEIRUT (Reuters) - A car bomb killed nine people at a Syrian military post in the eastern city of Deir al-Zor on Saturday, an attack the government said was the latest proof that an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad was a foreign plot. The official SANA news agency said the blast had been the work of a suicide bomber, and had also wounded about 100 people, including guards, at what it called military installations. International pressure and an U.N.-backed peace plan has failed to quell Syria's turmoil. ...
  • Anti-NATO demonstrators descend on Chicago mayor's home
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    Around 500 demonstrators gathered outside the home of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Saturday to protest the recent closure of mental health clinics as part of a series of rallies and marches timed to coincide with a NATO summit here. But the protest was much smaller than one attended by an estimated 2,500 people at a downtown plaza on Friday. The biggest rally is expected to be on Sunday near the convention center where world leaders will gather. ...
  • UFC champion Jon Jones arrested for DUI
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones was arrested early Saturday morning for a DUI after getting into an accident in Broome County in New York state. The accident was first reported by TMZ who said Jones crashed his Bentley into … Continue reading →
  • Mary Kennedy mourned at private funeral
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    Family and friends gathered Saturday at a modest stone church in a hamlet north of New York City for the funeral of Mary Richardson Kennedy, the latest member of that charmed and cursed family to fall victim to tragedy and inner demons.
  • Ohio woman charged with murder in bizarre stabbing
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    A Cleveland woman was charged with murder Saturday in the stabbing death of her best friend, who tried to drive away afterward and fatally struck the accused woman's 2-year-old daughter, police said.
  • Chrysler recalls nearly 87,000 Jeep Wranglers due to risk of fires
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    DETROIT - Chrysler is recalling nearly 87,000 Jeep Wranglers in the U.S., Canada and elsewhere due to a risk of fires.
  • Student dies, 7 hurt in blast near Italian school
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    A bomb exploded Saturday outside an Italian high school named after a slain anti-Mafia prosecutor, killing a student and wounding several others, officials said, and rattling a country already tense over a spate of attacks on government officials and buildings.
  • Colo. authorities say lesbian couple staged hate crime
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    A lesbian couple who claimed they were victims of a hate crime have been arrested after police determined they staged the incidents. On Oct. 28, Aimee Whitchurch, 37, and Christel Conklin, 29, called police and reported the words “Kill the Gay” were scrawled in red...
  • 3 men charged with terror conspiracy
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    Three men arrested earlier this week when police raided a Chicago apartment were being held Saturday on terrorism conspiracy charges, accused of trying to make Molotov cocktails ahead of the NATO summit.
  • Gay Muslim activist launches book in Malaysia
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    A Canadian Muslim gay activist launched her controversial new book on liberal Islam in Muslim-majority Malaysia Saturday despite a government minister's attempts to shut down the event.
  • Filipino Christian conservatives denounce Lady Gaga concert
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    Conservative Christian groups in the Philippines on Saturday marched near a shopping mall to demand the cancellation of Lady Gaga's two concerts next week, saying her songs carried "demonic" undertones. The protests in the heavily Catholic Philippines followed a decision this week by authorities in Indonesia, a secular state but with the world's largest Muslim population, to refuse her a permit to perform in Jakarta next month. ...
  • Cannes guests bid up to $255,656 at Haiti auction
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    Guests at Cannes have bid up to €200,000 ($255,656) at a Haiti fundraiser for items including a Bono-autographed guitar as the film festival's glitzy, global spotlight turned to charity.
  • Engine problem delays U.S. rocket launch
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    The launch of a privately owned Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station was delayed on Saturday when a computer detected a possible problem with one of the rocket's engines, a Space Exploration Technologies official said. Preparations for the company's trial cargo run to the International Space Station proceeded smoothly until 4:55 a.m. EDT (0855 GMT) when an onboard computer aborted the launch. "Liftoff ... we've had a cutoff. ...
  • Blind Chinese activist on flight to U.S.
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    Blind dissident Chen Guangcheng and his immediate family have left China on a flight to the United States. They are expected to arrive in Newark, N.J., Saturday evening.
  • Witnesses paint graphic picture of fight
    published on May 18th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    A closer look at the witness statements and audio testimony taken in the immediate aftermath Trayvon Martin's death provides the first insight into George Zimmerman's behavior after he shot the unarmed teen.

Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines

  • Study: Female athletes take longer to get over concussions
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    FRIDAY, May 18 (HealthDay News) -- Female athletes take longer to recover from concussions, a new study says.
  • World leaders back Greece, vow to combat financial turmoil
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    CAMP DAVID, Maryland (Reuters) - World leaders backed keeping Greece in the euro zone on Saturday and vowed to take all steps necessary to combat financial turmoil while revitalizing a global economy increasingly threatened by Europe's debt crisis. A summit of the G8 leading industrialized nations came down solidly in favor of a push to balance European austerity - an approach long driven by German Chancellor Angela Merkel - with a dose of U.S.-style stimulus seen as vital to healing ailing euro-zone economies. ...
  • Yachtsman kicks off Olympic torch relay in Britain
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    The Olympic flame was greeted by thousands of cheering spectators as it began its 70-day relay journey around Britain and Ireland on Saturday ahead of the 2012 London Games.
  • L.A. police arrest 2 in killings of Chinese students
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    A day after arrests were announced in the shooting deaths of two international graduate students near the University of Southern California, students on campus say they're relieved but that the crime hasn't changed their day-to-day behavior.
  • Records: Joplin twister was costliest since 1950
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    The cost of 30 manhole covers that got sucked away: $5,800. A new concession stand at the destroyed high school: $228,600. Shelter and care for more than 1,300 homeless pets: $372,000.
  • Syria bomb kills 9, Damascus blames foreign plot
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    BEIRUT (Reuters) - A car bomb killed nine people at a Syrian military post in the eastern city of Deir al-Zor on Saturday, an attack the government said was the latest proof that an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad was a foreign plot. The official SANA news agency said the blast had been the work of a suicide bomber, and had also wounded about 100 people, including guards, at what it called military installations. International pressure and an U.N.-backed peace plan has failed to quell Syria's turmoil. ...
  • Anti-NATO demonstrators descend on Chicago mayor's home
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    Around 500 demonstrators gathered outside the home of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Saturday to protest the recent closure of mental health clinics as part of a series of rallies and marches timed to coincide with a NATO summit here. But the protest was much smaller than one attended by an estimated 2,500 people at a downtown plaza on Friday. The biggest rally is expected to be on Sunday near the convention center where world leaders will gather. ...
  • UFC champion Jon Jones arrested for DUI
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones was arrested early Saturday morning for a DUI after getting into an accident in Broome County in New York state. The accident was first reported by TMZ who said Jones crashed his Bentley into … Continue reading →
  • Mary Kennedy mourned at private funeral
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    Family and friends gathered Saturday at a modest stone church in a hamlet north of New York City for the funeral of Mary Richardson Kennedy, the latest member of that charmed and cursed family to fall victim to tragedy and inner demons.
  • Ohio woman charged with murder in bizarre stabbing
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    A Cleveland woman was charged with murder Saturday in the stabbing death of her best friend, who tried to drive away afterward and fatally struck the accused woman's 2-year-old daughter, police said.
  • Chrysler recalls nearly 87,000 Jeep Wranglers due to risk of fires
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    DETROIT - Chrysler is recalling nearly 87,000 Jeep Wranglers in the U.S., Canada and elsewhere due to a risk of fires.
  • Student dies, 7 hurt in blast near Italian school
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    A bomb exploded Saturday outside an Italian high school named after a slain anti-Mafia prosecutor, killing a student and wounding several others, officials said, and rattling a country already tense over a spate of attacks on government officials and buildings.
  • Colo. authorities say lesbian couple staged hate crime
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    A lesbian couple who claimed they were victims of a hate crime have been arrested after police determined they staged the incidents. On Oct. 28, Aimee Whitchurch, 37, and Christel Conklin, 29, called police and reported the words “Kill the Gay” were scrawled in red...
  • 3 men charged with terror conspiracy
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    Three men arrested earlier this week when police raided a Chicago apartment were being held Saturday on terrorism conspiracy charges, accused of trying to make Molotov cocktails ahead of the NATO summit.
  • Gay Muslim activist launches book in Malaysia
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    A Canadian Muslim gay activist launched her controversial new book on liberal Islam in Muslim-majority Malaysia Saturday despite a government minister's attempts to shut down the event.
  • Filipino Christian conservatives denounce Lady Gaga concert
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    Conservative Christian groups in the Philippines on Saturday marched near a shopping mall to demand the cancellation of Lady Gaga's two concerts next week, saying her songs carried "demonic" undertones. The protests in the heavily Catholic Philippines followed a decision this week by authorities in Indonesia, a secular state but with the world's largest Muslim population, to refuse her a permit to perform in Jakarta next month. ...
  • Cannes guests bid up to $255,656 at Haiti auction
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    Guests at Cannes have bid up to €200,000 ($255,656) at a Haiti fundraiser for items including a Bono-autographed guitar as the film festival's glitzy, global spotlight turned to charity.
  • Engine problem delays U.S. rocket launch
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    The launch of a privately owned Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station was delayed on Saturday when a computer detected a possible problem with one of the rocket's engines, a Space Exploration Technologies official said. Preparations for the company's trial cargo run to the International Space Station proceeded smoothly until 4:55 a.m. EDT (0855 GMT) when an onboard computer aborted the launch. "Liftoff ... we've had a cutoff. ...
  • Blind Chinese activist on flight to U.S.
    published on May 19th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    Blind dissident Chen Guangcheng and his immediate family have left China on a flight to the United States. They are expected to arrive in Newark, N.J., Saturday evening.
  • Witnesses paint graphic picture of fight
    published on May 18th, 2012 at 04:14 PM
    A closer look at the witness statements and audio testimony taken in the immediate aftermath Trayvon Martin's death provides the first insight into George Zimmerman's behavior after he shot the unarmed teen.




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