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    20090329
    ENVIRONMENT News.
    GLOBAL News.GlobalCLIMATE News.ClimateEARTH News.EarthENERGY News.EnergyEMISSIONS News.EmissionsPOLITICS News.PoliticsECONOMIC News. MONEY News.EconomicCRISIS News.CrisisFLOOD News. WATER News.FloodsPLANT News.PlantsANIMAL News.AnimalsHISTORY News.HistoryUN News: United Nations News.
    "World switches off to save planet in "Earth Hour"." ... "Lights went out at tourism landmarks and homes across the globe on Saturday for Earth Hour 2009, a global event designed to highlight the threat from climate change." ... "Organizers said the action showed millions of people wanted governments to work out a strong new [United Nations] U.N. deal to fight global warming by the end of 2009, even though the global economic crisis has raised worries about the costs." ... "The U.N. Climate Panel says greenhouse gas emissions are warming the planet and will lead to more floods, droughts, heatwaves, rising sea levels and animal and plant extinctions." ... "World emissions have risen by about 70 percent since the 1970s." -By Jon Boyle -Reuters
    20081209
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    PLANT News. Whitebark Pine News. Tree News.Plants -ANIMAL News. Mountain Animals News. Grizzly Bears News. Birds News. Elk News. Grouse News. Mountain Pine Beetle News.AnimalsFOOD News. Seeds News.FoodWATER News. SNOW News.WaterSOIL News. EARTH News.SoilGLOBAL News.GlobalCLIMATE News.ClimateSCIENCE News. SCIENTIFIC News.ScienceFEDERAL GOVERNMENT News.GovernmentUS AMERICAN NewsUSCANADA News.Canada
    "Tree's rapid decline sounds alarm on global warming." ... "The whitebark pine, a tree found in the high elevations of the western U.S. [United States] and Canada, is being killed as a consequence of global warming and should be protected as an endangered species, an environmental group formally told the Interior Department Tuesday." ... "If the federal government accepts the scientific arguments in a petition by the Natural Resources Defense Council, it would be the first time a wide-ranging tree has been added to the list. The NRDC [Natural Resources Defense Council] also sees an endangered designation as a warning about worsening climate change." ... "The whitebark pine has declined dramatically due to a triple threat — a disease called the white pine blister rust; the mountain pine beetle, which thrives in the warmer high-altitude conditions produced by the burning of fossil fuels, and forest management practices that have allowed other trees to crowd it out, the NRDC's petition said." ... "Warming also will limit the range of the whitebark pine, the petition said. Many live more than 500 years." ... "The whitebark pine stabilizes the soil and shades the snow, providing water over longer periods for other plants. Grizzly bears, smaller mammals and birds eat its seeds, and elk, grouse and other mountain animals find shelter beneath it." -By Renee Schoof -McClatchyDC.com
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    20080507
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  • WATER News. DRINKING WATER News. Rivers and Streams News. Wastewater Systems News. Clean Water and Drinking Water Infrastructure Gap Analysis News. National Association of Clean Water Agencies News.WaterINFRASTRUCTURE News.InfrastructureHUMAN News. PEOPLE News.HumanHEALTH News.HealthSAFETY News.SafetyLAW ENFORCEMENT News.EnforcementENVIRONMENT News. EPA News: Environmental Protection Agency News.EnvironmentUNDERGOUND News. EARTH News.UndergroundMONEY News.MoneyHISTORY News.HistoryWEATHER News.WeatherANIMAL News. Aquatic Animals News.AnimalsPLANT News.Plants - "Aging systems releasing sewage into rivers, streams." ... "America's aging sewer systems continue to dump human waste into rivers and streams, despite years of fines and penalties targeting publicly owned agencies responsible for sewage overflows, a Gannett News Service analysis shows." ... "The analysis of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data found that since 2003, hundreds of municipal sewer authorities have been fined for violations, including spills that make people sick, threaten local drinking water and kill aquatic animals and plants." ... "DATABASE: Sewer treatment plant reports by state[.]" ... "Local governments across the USA plan to spend billions modernizing failing wastewater systems — some of which are more than 100 years old — over the next 10 to 20 years, EPA, state and local sewer authority officials said." ... "Those improvement efforts face a huge challenge mitigating problems in what the EPA estimates to be 1.2 million miles of sewers snaking underground across the USA." ... "Waste gurgles from manholes and gushes down streams and rivers somewhere in the USA almost every day, the EPA estimates." ... "Gannett News Service analyzed enforcement and compliance records compiled by the EPA and state regulators from January 2003 to February 2008." ... "The analysis found that at least one-third of the nation's large, publicly owned sewage treatment systems were the subject of formal enforcement actions by the EPA or state regulators for sewage spills or other violations. Those enforcement actions included fines as well as orders to fix problems or expand treatment capacity. Fines totaling $35 million were assessed against 494 of the nation's 4,200 municipal facilities that treat at least 1 million gallons of sewage daily, the analysis shows." ... "An EPA 2004 report to Congress estimated that 850 billion gallons of storm water mixed with raw sewage pour into U.S. waters every year from older, combined sewer systems that were designed to overflow in wet weather. These combined systems, built by cities in the 19th and early 20th centuries, are now considered antiquated and a threat to public health and the environment, according to the EPA and environmental groups." ... "The EPA's 2002 Clean Water and Drinking Water Infrastructure Gap Analysis reported the nation's municipal sewer authorities' capital needs to meet clean water requirements from 2000 to 2019 ranged from $331 billion to $450 billion. Based on that data, the National Association of Clean Water Agencies now puts that range at $350 billion to $500 billion for the next 20 years, association spokeswoman Susan Bruninga said." -By Larry Wheeler and Grant Smith with contributions by Robert Benincasa and Dan Klepal -USATODAY
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    CHRISTIAN News. FAITH News. BIBLE News. SCRIPTURE News. WORSHIP News. HOLY News. RELIGION News.
  • PEOPLE News.PeopleHEALTH News. Dr News. Hospital News. Patients News.HealthENVIRONMENT News.EnvironmentPLANT News. OAKS News. PALM TREE News. TREES News.TreesGLOBAL News.GlobalEARTH News.EarthSCIENTIFIC News.SciencePOLITICS News.PoliticsBOOK News. AUTHOR News.BookNORTH CAROLINA News.North Carolina - "Caring for planet increasingly tied to faith groups." ... "Abraham sits at the oaks. Deborah holds court under a palm tree. Moses speaks to a bush." ... ""I would say connecting this to the Bible is important for some people," said Dr. Matthew Sleeth, a former hospital chief of staff who couldn't shake the faces of patients with seemingly increasing environment-related illnesses. So he quit his job, gave away half his belongings and began spreading the word on the urgency of people paying more attention to the environment." ... "Pointing out the symbolism of trees in Scripture has helped Sleeth link faith with personal responsibility. His book, "Serve God and Save the Planet: A Christian Call to Action," is in its seventh printing. Sleeth also has a prominent role in the publication of an upcoming "green Bible."" ... ""The change has come when people who are strong in their faith, who might be against it," Sleeth says of the deterioration of the Earth, "then go look at the Bible with this in mind and they see a different story."" ... "The statewide faith and environment conference that Sleeth will co-headline at Catawba College in Salisbury [North Carolina] this month grew out of a meeting among Greensboro [North Carolina] houses of worship at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. Participants tried to broaden the conversation between the scientific and faith-based communities." ... ""When people realize that there is this direct tie between our own faith and being good stewards of this Earth," said John Wear, founding director of Catawba's Center for the Environment, "then it gives them a purpose that didn't exist before."" -By Nancy McLaughlin -News-Record.com
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  • 20080430
    FOOD News. CORN and PALM OIL News. GRAIN STOCKS News. MEAT News. CORN BELT News.
  • FARMERS News. AGRICULTURE News. CROPS News.AgricultureFACTORIES News.FactoryPRICE News. COMPANIES News. MONEY News.CompaniesPOOR News.PoorPEOPLE News.PeopleNUTRITION News.NutritionHEALTH News.HealthUS AMERICAN News.USUN News: United Nations News.WORLD News.WorldFOSSIL FUELS News. BIOFUELS News. NATURAL GAS News. ENERGY News.BiofuelGAS News. OXYGEN News. AIR News.AirSOIL News. GROUND News. EARTH News.SoilWATER News. STREAMS News. GROUNDWATER News. SEA News. MARINE News.WaterENVIRONMENTAL News.EnvironmentANIMAL News.AnimalsPLANT News.PlantsSCIENCE News.Science - "Shortages Threaten Farmers’ Key Tool: Fertilizer." ... "Some kinds of fertilizer have nearly tripled in price in the last year, keeping farmers from buying all they need. That is one of many factors contributing to a rise in food prices that, according to the United Nations’ World Food Program, threatens to push tens of millions of poor people into malnutrition." ... "Rising demand for food and biofuels prompted farmers everywhere to plant more crops." ... "Fertilizer companies are confident the shortage will be solved eventually, noting that they plan to build scores of new factories. But that will probably create fresh problems in the long run as the world grows more dependent on fossil fuels to produce chemical fertilizers." ... "The demand for fertilizer has been driven by a confluence of events, including population growth, shrinking world grain stocks and the appetite for corn and palm oil to make biofuel. But experts say the biggest factor has been the growing demand for food, especially meat, in the developing world." ... "Fertilizer is plant food, a combination of nutrients added to soil to help plants grow. The three most important are nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. The latter two have long been available. But nitrogen in a form that plants can absorb is scarce, and the lack of it led to low crop yields for centuries." ... "That limitation ended in the early 20th century with the invention of a procedure, now primarily fueled by natural gas, that draws chemically inert nitrogen from the air and converts it into a usable form." ... "Environmental groups fear increased use, particularly of nitrogen fertilizer made using fossil fuels. Because plants do not absorb all the nitrogen, much of it leaches into streams and groundwater. That runoff has long been recognized as a major pollution problem, and it is growing." ... "A barometer of the pollution is the rising number of dead zones where rivers meet the sea. In the Gulf of Mexico, for instance, nitrogen runoff from fields in the Corn Belt washes downstream and feeds plant life in the gulf. The algae blooms suck oxygen from the water, killing other marine life." (1, 2) -By Keith Bradsher and Andrew Martin -NYTimes 
  • 20080331
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  • FOOD News. CORN News. GRAIN News. GROCERY News. SOYBEAN News.FoodFARMERS News. AGRICULTURE News. GRAIN FARMERS News. Department of Agriculture News. FARM News.AgriculturePLANT News. PLANTING News.PlantLAND News.LandHISTORY News.HistoryETHANOL News. ETHANOL COMPANIES News. FUEL News.EthanolCOMPANIES News.CompaniesLIVESTOCK News. ANIMAL News. Livestock Producers News.AnimalCONSUMERS NewsConsumers - "Corn forecast suggests rise in food prices is ahead." ... "U.S. [United States] farmers plan to cut back corn planting and boost soybean production, a shift that could send ripples from the farm belt to your grocery bills." ... "The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday released its prospective plantings report. The report, which came amid surging grain prices, bore news that affects grain farmers, livestock producers, ethanol companies, food processors and, ultimately, consumers." ... "Corn plantings are expected to fall 8 percent this year, to 86 million acres, according to the Department of Agriculture. Last year farmers planted a post-World War II record of nearly 94 million acres of corn to meet burgeoning demand for ethanol, which is expected to soon absorb about 30 percent of domestic corn production." ... "“Last year many soybean growers switched from soybeans to corn as ethanol expansion strongly increased the demand for corn,” the Department of Agriculture said." ... "This year, though, many of the 86,000 farmers surveyed for the report said they were shifting production back toward soybeans, which had surged in price. Soybean planting is expected to increase 18 percent this year, to almost 75 million acres." ... "Corn is trading near its record-high price of $5.70 a bushel, more than double the price of two years ago. Soybeans are hovering around $12 a bushel, nearly double last year’s level." (1, 2) -By Victoria Sizemore Long -KansasCity.com
  • 20080208
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  • BIOFUELS News. FUELS News. ENERGY News.BiofuelsPLANT News.PlantsGREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS News. AIR News.Greenhouse GasGLOBAL News.GlobalCLIMATE News.ClimateSCIENTISTS News. SCIENCE News.ScienceAGRICULTURE News. CROPLAND News.AgricultureLAND News. Planet News.LandENVIRONMENTAL News. ECOSYSTEMS News: Rain Forest News, Tropics News, Grasslands News, Scrubland News.EnvironmentalECONOMY News.EconomyFOOD News.Food - "Biofuels Deemed a Greenhouse Threat." ... "Almost all biofuels used today cause more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional fuels if the full emissions costs of producing these “green” fuels are taken into account, two studies being published Thursday have concluded." ... "The benefits of biofuels have come under increasing attack in recent months, as scientists took a closer look at the global environmental cost of their production. These latest studies, published in the prestigious journal Science, are likely to add to the controversy." ... "These studies for the first time take a detailed, comprehensive look at the emissions effects of the huge amount of natural land that is being converted to cropland globally to support biofuels development." ... "The destruction of natural ecosystems — whether rain forest in the tropics or grasslands in South America — not only releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere when they are burned and plowed, but also deprives the planet of natural sponges to absorb carbon emissions. Cropland also absorbs far less carbon than the rain forests or even scrubland that it replaces." ... "Together the two studies offer sweeping conclusions: It does not matter if it is rain forest or scrubland that is cleared, the greenhouse gas contribution is significant. More important, they discovered that, taken globally, the production of almost all biofuels resulted, directly or indirectly, intentionally or not, in new lands being cleared, either for food or fuel." (1, 2) -By Elisabeth Rosenthal -NYTimes 
  • 20080116
    ENVIRONMENT News.
  • BRAZIL News.BrazilFARM News.FarmsILLEGAL News. LAW News.IllegalBUSINESS News.BusinessHISTORY News.HistoryLAND News.LandFORESTS News. PLANT News. Deforestation News.PlantsGLOBAL News.GlobalWEATHER News.WeatherScientist News. SCIENCE News.Science - "Amazon deforestation seen surging." ... "[Brazil's National Institute for Space Research scientist Carlos] Nobre, whose government agency monitors the Amazon and gathers data, said that 2,300 square miles of [Brazil's] forest had been lost in the past four months." ... "That compares with an estimated 3,700 square miles in the 12 months ended July 31, which Brazil officials hailed as the lowest deforestation rate since the 1970s." ... "Brazil's government has said that policies such as more controls on illegal logging and better certification of land ownership were reducing the deforestation that has destroyed about a fifth of the forest -- an area bigger than France -- since the 1970s." ... "But environmental groups have warned that rising global commodity prices are likely to fuel more clearing of land for farms, as occurred in 2004 when Brazil recorded the highest deforestation rate of more than 10,400 square miles (27,000 square km )." ... "Destruction of forests produces about 20 percent of man-made carbon dioxide emissions, making conservation of the Amazon crucial to limiting rises in global temperatures." (1, 2) -By Stuart Grudgings with contributions by Cynthia Osterman -Reuters 
  • 20080108
    SCIENCE News.
  • AGRICULTURE News. Planting News. Farmers News. Cropland News. Fields News. Farm News.AgriculturePLANT News. Switchgrass News. Panicum virgatum News. Grass News. Perennial Grass News.PlantETHANOL News. BIOFUEL News. ENERGY News. Petroleum News. Biorefineries News.EnergyECONOMY News.EconomyFOOD News. Corn News.FoodNEBRASKA News.NebraskaN DAKOTA News: NORTH DAKOTA News.N DakotaS DAKOTA News: SOUTH DAKOTA News.S Dakota - "Grass Makes Better Ethanol than Corn Does: Midwestern farms prove switchgrass could be the right crop for producing ethanol to replace gasoline." ... "Farmers in Nebraska and the Dakotas [North and South] brought the U.S. [United States] closer to becoming a biofuel economy, planting huge tracts of land for the first time with switchgrass—a native North American perennial grass (Panicum virgatum) that often grows on the borders of cropland naturally—and proving that it can deliver more than five times more energy than it takes to grow it." ... "Working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the farmers tracked the seed used to establish the plant, fertilizer used to boost its growth, fuel used to farm it, overall rainfall and the amount of grass ultimately harvested for five years on fields ranging from seven to 23 acres in size (three to nine hectares)." ... "Once established, the fields yielded from 5.2 to 11.1 metric tons of grass bales per hectare, depending on rainfall, says USDA plant scientist Ken Vogel. "It fluctuates with the timing of the precipitation,'' he says. "Switchgrass needs most of its moisture in spring and midsummer. If you get fall rains, it's not going to do that year's crops much good."" ... "But yields from a grass that only needs to be planted once would deliver an average of 13.1 megajoules of energy as ethanol for every megajoule of petroleum consumed—in the form of nitrogen fertilizers or diesel for tractors—growing them. "It's a prediction because right now there are no biorefineries built that handle cellulosic material" like that which switchgrass provides, Vogel notes. "We're pretty confident the ethanol yield is pretty close." This means that switchgrass ethanol delivers 540 percent of the energy used to produce it, compared with just roughly 25 percent more energy returned by corn-based ethanol according to the most optimistic studies." -By David Biello -SciAm 
 
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