May 2013
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May 17th
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Climate Change Has Shifted the Locations of... →
The shifting locations of the North and South poles. Increased melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet and other ice losses worldwide have helped to move the North Pole several centimeters east each year since 2005
May 17th
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May 16th
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For Insurers, No Doubts on Climate Change
Excerpt from NY Times’ story about how the insurance industry is breaking away from the conservative party line on climate change. But the industry’s analysis of the risks it faces is evolving. One sign of that is how some top American insurers responded to a billboard taken out by the conservative Heartland Institute, a prominent climate change denier that has received support from the...
May 16th
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Losing Water | EMagazine.com →
Interesting look at the ‘water footprint’ (vs ‘carbon footprint’) of energy projects. The water footprint could become as important as the carbon footprint in years to come.
May 16th
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May 16th
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“There needs to be robust and open debate on the merits of expanding the export...”
– Roger O. McClellan, an expert on toxicology and human health-risk analysis, is former chairman of the National Research Council Committee on Toxicology, past Chairman of EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, and a member of the Institute of Medicine. This is an excerpt from an op-ed piece...
May 16th
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Second-Hand Smoke | Conservation Magazine →
City-dwelling birds have an odd habit of lining their nests with bits of cigarette butts. Now scientists have figured out why: the nicotine in the butts may help keep parasites away.
May 16th
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May 15th
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Beyond the pale ale: A guide to sustainable beer →
May 15th
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May 15th
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AP IMPACT: Wind Farms Get Pass on Eagle Deaths →
May 15th
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May 15th
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May 14th
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Check out our 'Northwest Spring in Color' photo... →
May 14th
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May 14th
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May 14th
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Top stories on EarthFix now
Which Fish Get To Recolonize After Elwha’s Dams Are Gone? Elwha River: Recovery Proceeds Despite Sediment Setbacks Anti-Logging Protesters: ‘We Are Not Terrorists’ Coal Company Drops Plans For Export Terminal On Columbia No New Wind Farm Construction In PNW This Year Why It’s Getting Harder To Deal With Droughts And Floods What A Golf Course Could Mean For...
May 14th
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May 14th
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Geek out on our videos documenting the Elwha River restoration and dam removal process.
May 11th
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May 11th
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UW chemists coal project gets crowdfunded  in... →
A UW chemist wanted to do air-quality monitoring on the health effects of coal trains, but couldn
May 11th
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googleearthwalkabout: Visualize three decades of changes to the Earth’s surface with Google Earth timelapses
May 11th
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Global carbon dioxide in atmosphere passes... →
Climate change news paulfosterdesign: Climate warming greenhouse gas reaches 400 parts per million for the first time in human history The steep ramp on the graph is not good.
May 11th
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http://www.npr.org/2013/05/10/182599588/college-div... →
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May 10th
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Hanford Nuclear Waste Cleanup Plant May Be Too... →
Safety issues make plans to clean up a mess left over from the construction of the U.S. nuclear arsenal uncertain
May 10th
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Which fish will get to recolonize the Elwha River in the biggest U.S. dam removal projects? The complex debate over wild and hatchery fish.
May 10th
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May 10th
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Top Stories on EarthFix Now
What A Golf Course Could Mean For Washington’s Groundwater Ore. Bill Requires Wave Energy Companies To Remove Equipment Report: Feds Planning To Drop Wolves’ Legal Protections Ending Year-End Checks For Green Energy Surpluses Washington State Pressed To Save Honey Bees By Restricting Pesticides Talking Columbia River Treaty Court Tosses Agreement Over Rare Forest Species ...
May 7th
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“The small companies demonstrate to the big cosmetic giants that making safe...”
– Janet Nudelman, cofounder of Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, a group that blew the whistle on Johnson & Johnson and now praises it for removing chemicals from baby products. The article notes, “Pressure on the corporations also comes from some smaller companies that already make organic or...
May 7th
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What Is The Future of Coal? →
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May 7th
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May 2nd
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May 2nd
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May 2nd
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Branding Problem | Conservation Magazine →
Green labels deter conservatives from buying energy-efficient bulbs
May 2nd
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May 1st
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April 2013
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Apr 27th
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Apr 27th
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How Boeing, allies torpedoed state’s rules on... →
An in-depth investigative piece from our colleagues at InvestigateWest.
Apr 27th
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Via FastCoExist: Top Locavore State: Vermont Pacific Northwest in the Top Ten: Oregon (07) & Idaho (10). California placed near the bottom (42). Things that went into ranking the states included number of farmers markets & CSAs as well as access to local foods. That’s the part that bumped Cali down the list.
Apr 27th
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Gut Microbe Makes Diesel Biofuel: Scientific... →
Reconfiguring the genetics of the food pathogen E. coli produces hydrocarbons indistinguishable from those burned in trucks
Apr 27th
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Apr 26th
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ListenA bunch of folks at the recent TedX event at...
Apr 26th
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From Colorlines’ ‘Environmental Justice’ Soldiers On Without a King, Queen—or Major Dollars While mainstream environmental organizations lick their wounds over the failure of climate-change legislation and their startling lack of diversity, people of color and those living on low incomes continue to bear the brunt of climate-change impacts. We saw this most recently with Superstorm Sandy,...
Apr 26th
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Apr 26th
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Feds accept petition to add captive orca Lolita to... →
Apr 26th
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