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NOAA closes southern scallop area for the year at industry's request | SouthCoastToday.com

Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 3:07 PM EDT ()

By DON CUDDY doncuddy@s-t.com May 12, 2012 12:00 AM Popular Today

delaware, us-news, noaa, new-england-fishery-management-council, scallop-fishing-industry, rotational-management-program, maryland-and-virginia

Game Over for the Climate

Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 4:25 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Seeded by Benno Hansen

GLOBAL warming isn’t a prediction. It is happening. That is why I was so troubled to read a recent interview with President Obama in Rolling Stone in which he said that Canada would exploit the oil in its vast tar sands reserves “regardless of what we do.”

environment, climate-change, barack-obama, james-hansen

Game Over for the Climate - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Fri May 11, 2012 11:20 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Seeded by Que2646

In this editorial, James Hansen argues that if the Canadian tar sand are developed, it will be "game over" for the climate. "If we were to fully exploit this new oil source, and continue to burn our conventional oil, gas and coal supplies, concentrations of carbon dioxide in the …

global-warming, environment, not-news, co2, fossil-fuels, james-hansen, xl-pipeline

Rio+20 : A mirage for Africa?

Seeded on Thu May 10, 2012 2:11 PM EDT ()

Seeded by Benno Hansen

With a population of a little over one billion (according to the UNFPA report) Africa is certainly one of the continents that is faced with huge challenges of under-development, poverty, food insecurity, environmental degradation, water scarcity, pollution and land degradation. …

africa, environment, climate-change, sustainability, rio-20

Is John Kerry Shilling for Big Oil?- carrying water for America's oil and natural gas companies.

Seeded on Thu May 10, 2012 6:37 AM EDT ()

Seeded by bore-head007

by Ashe Schow Has Senator Kerry flip-flopped? It’s hard to tell, but whether you’re on the right or left or somewhere in between, his claims about the treaty deserve scrutiny. Here’s a noodle-scratcher for you: Senator John Kerry (D-MA) – a self-proclaim …

us-news, world-wildlife-fund, big-oil, defenders-of-wildlife, oceana, chamber-of-commerce, the-heritage-foundation, ocean-conservancy, senator-john-kerry-d-ma, law-of-the-sea-treaty-lost

Michael Crichton on Global Warming, Part 2 of 3 - YouTube

Seeded on Wed May 9, 2012 1:33 PM EDT (YouTube)

Seeded by Que2646

Michael Chrighton came up with the idea that global warming is a religion. Watch him stammer his way through an interview with Charlie Rose when asked to defend his position on global warming.

global-warming, environment, climate-change, charlie-rose, michael-chrighton

Hot Dogs? Chilli? Taco's? VIDEO: An Appetite for Asian Carp

Seeded on Mon May 7, 2012 4:26 PM EDT ()

Seeded by bore-head007

Schafer fisheries has grown this into a $10 million a year operation, mainly on the back of Asian carp. The invasive species now account for 80 percent of his business. It’s a bony fish so much of the carp is ground up. They've experimented with a v …

israel, us-news, asian-carp, commercial-fisherman, impact-on-the-environment, were-all-making-a-livingships-carp-to-singapore, exported-to-the-dominican-republic, and-eastern-europe

Keystone XL pipeline takes second shot at U.S. OK | Reuters

Seeded on Mon May 7, 2012 10:07 AM EDT (Reuters)

Seeded by bore-head007

By Jeffrey Jones (Reuters) - TransCanada Corp is taking its second shot at asking Washington to approve the contentious Keystone XL oil pipeline, betting that a new route through Nebraska and post-U.S. election time frame for a decision will push the project forward. The …

us-news, environmentalists, u-s-state-department, prime-minister-stephen-harper, president-barack-obama, transcanada-corp, keystone-xl-oil-pipeline, nebraska-department-of-environmental-quality

Governments that Dream

Sun May 6, 2012 5:19 PM EDT

By Benno Hansen

Late March 2012 the government of Denmark agreed with most opposition parties on a plan of public investments in renewable energy and goals for future levels of sustainability. While the agreement was received with enthusiasm and envy by the environmentally inclined segment of th …

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un, denmark, environment, government, dreams, sustainability, windmills, rio-20

Fishing fleet sues feds—says water exports hurt salmon : Indybay

Seeded on Sat May 5, 2012 11:01 AM EDT ()

Seeded by bore-head007

by Dan Bacher San Francisco, May 3 - Commercial fishermen say they have had "enough" and they are taking the federal government to court. "The issue is the decades old practice of rolling over excessive so-called ‘interim water’ contracts—mostly with larg …

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