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14 min ago | The Daily Star

Russia plans urgent evacuation of Arctic post as ice melts

In this undated image released by the Marine Ice Automobile Expedition, two trucks used by the expedition members cross the North Pole.

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Related Topix: Science, Vladimir Putin

4 hrs ago | Patch.com

EPA Adds Attleboro Site to Superfund LIst

Federal officials have decided to spend the money needed to clean an Attleboro property contaminated with chemicals through decades of pollution by a previously existing chrome-plating plant.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, Attleboro, MA, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Science

Thu May 23, 2013

CBC News

Trudeau raises environmental questions over pipeline

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says a proposed west-east pipeline project will not go forward unless it addresses key environmental concerns.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas, TransCanada, Natural Gas, Canada, North America, World News, Science,

KBND-AM Bend

Chicken fight: Study backs farmer in pollution battle with EPA

West Virginia poultry farmer Lois Alt didn't chicken out when the Environmental Protection Agency threatened her with fines of $40,000 per day, and even though the federal regulators eventually backed off, she's taking them on in a legal case that could benefit thousands of small farmers.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Science, Agriculture

R & D

Bacterium from Arctic offers clues about life on Mars

The temperature in the permafrost on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian high Arctic is nearly as cold as that of the surface of Mars.

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Related Topix: Science

Larvatus Prodeo

Oklahoma tornado and climate change

In the US tornado alley warm moist air flows north from the Gulf of Mexico in the lower atmosphere and becomes unstable.

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Related Topix: Tornado, Natural Disasters, Science

SFGate

Gov. Brown continues climate change crusade

Gov. Jerry Brown is set to continue his climate change charge, joining scientists releasing a 20-page call to action on environmental problems including pollution, extinctions and population growth.

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Related Topix: US Governors, Jerry Brown, Science, Stanford University

GPB.org

Obama Group's Climate Push Puts President Under Scrutiny

President Obama speaks at Ellicott Dredges in Baltimore on May 17. The trip followed a visit by the company's president to Capitol Hill to testify in support of the Keystone XL pipeline.

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Related Topix: 2012 Presidential Election, US Politics, US News, Twitter, Global Warming, Science, John Boehner, Republican, US House of Representatives

The Star Online

In China, food scares put Mao's self-sufficiency goal at risk

The discovery of dangerous levels of toxic cadmium in rice sold in the southern city of Guangzhou, the latest in a series of food scandals, has piled more pressure on China to clean up its food chain - possibly at the expense of Mao Zedong's cherished goal of self-sufficiency. A worker displays a handful of rice at a market in Hefei, Anhui province ... (more)

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Related Topix: World News, China, Reuters, Science, Agriculture

Canada.com

Republicans aim to take Keystone XL decision out of Obama's hands

The American political brawl over the approval of TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL pipeline shifted into overdrive on Wednesday as Republicans in the House of Representatives made yet another attempt to take the decision out of U.S. President Barack Obama's hands.

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Related Topix: US News, Oil & Gas, TransCanada, Natural Gas, Energy, US Politics, Barack Obama, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Representative Nick Rahall, Science, Canada, North America, World News

Wed May 22, 2013

Patch.com

Seven Gen Student: It's Time for a Hazardous Waste Collection

Special to Emmaus Patch by Brooke Zacker Picture paint in the landfill soaking down into a family's aquifer, then soaking into a family's well.

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Related Topix: Science, Emmaus, PA

Daily Kos

The Moore, Oklahoma Tornado and Global Warming

Was the F5 tornado in Moore, Oklahoma caused by global warming? Probably not. There hasn't been an increase in tornado activity in recent years.

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Related Topix: Science, Moore, OK, Hurricane, Natural Disasters, US News, Liberal Political News

NorCalBlogs

Stunning ignorance on display from Senator Barbara Boxer over Oklahoma tornado outbreak

Sen. Barbara Boxer took to the Senate floor and invoked the Oklahoma tornadoes in her speech on global warming.

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Related Topix: Barbara Boxer, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Science, Weather, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, F5 Networks

NorCalBlogs

Kevin Trenberth struggles mightily to explain the lack of global warming

Rising surface temperatures are just one manifestation. Melting Arctic sea ice is another.

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Related Topix: Science, Weather

Bellingham Herald

College fossil-fuel divestment movement builds

The Fossil Free campaign argues that if it's wrong to pour pollution into the air and contribute to climate change, it's also wrong to profit from it.

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Related Topix: Activism, Science, Financial Markets, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Stanford University

Telegram

Household hazardous waste collection focusing on smaller communities

The Multi-Materials Stewardship Board will be partnering with volunteer fire departments in rural communities across the province, as well as the City of Corner Brook and the Town of Happy Valley-Goose Bay, to provide people a convenient way to properly dispose of household hazardous waste.

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Related Topix: Science, Canada,

Skanner Seattle

Portland Special Election 2013 Results: No on Water Fluoridation

Portlanders rejected water fluoridation by a large margin Tuesday, in a special election that brought out just under 36 percent of eligible voters.

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Related Topix: Domestic Violence (Domestic Abuse), Law, Science

National Geographic

Deforestation Reduces Hydropower and May Dry Out the Amazon

Last week, scientists published a study in the journal PNAS that warned that deforestation in the Amazon could significantly decrease the power output of hydroelectric dams, which are a major source of energy in the region.

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Related Topix: Science, Weather, South America, World News, Brazil

KONP 1450 Local News

Makah site may be added to Superfund list

The Environmental Protection Agency says the Warmhouse Beach dump, on the Makah Reservation, in Neah Bay should go on the list.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, Science, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Bad Astronomy Blog

The Forces that Narrow the Climate Debate

Last week on Twitter I lamented the simplistic public discourse on climate change, how it's often framed by those who dismiss the legitimate concerns of a warming planet and those who play up those concerns.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Lamar Smith, Dick Cheney, James Inhofe, US Senate, Global Warming, Science