"The Love Affair With the Fireplace Cools"
The wood-burning fireplace, once considered a trophy and luxury, especially by urban dwellers, is acquiring a social stigma among the eco-conscious.
Source: NY Times, 01/20/2011
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"Bees Facing a Poisoned Spring"
"A new generation of pesticides is making honeybees far more susceptible to disease, even at tiny doses, and may be a clue to the mysterious colony collapse disorder that has devastated bees across the world, the US government's leading bee researcher has found. Yet the discovery has remained unpublished for nearly two years since it was made by the US Department of Agriculture's Bee Research Laboratory."
Source: UK Independent, 01/20/2011
"Obama, Hu Agree to Combat Climate Change, Urged to Do More"
"Presidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao of China, who is in Washington on an official state visit, said in a joint statement this afternoon that they 'view climate change and energy security as two of the greatest challenges of our time.' In an open letter today, U.S. environmental leaders urged the presidents to adopt 'a wartime-like mobilization' to cut greenhouse gas emissions."
Source: ENS, 01/20/2011
"Obama Admin Denies Petition to Raise Grazing Fees on Public Lands"
"The Obama administration yesterday rejected a proposal to raise grazing fees on public lands, a decision that suggests ranchers will continue to be charged below-market prices to graze cattle on federal rangelands."
Source: Greenwire, 01/20/2011
"Why Bedbugs Won't Die"
"The first comprehensive genetic study of bedbugs, the irritating pests that have enjoyed a world-wide resurgence in recent years, indicates they are quickly evolving to withstand the pesticides used to combat them."
Source: Wall St. Journal, 01/20/2011
Scam Artists Target Climate Scientists
"Fraudsters are targeting climate scientists with fake conferences in a bid to make cash and obtain details." Is it a ploy to plant spy programs on scientists' computers?
Source: BBC News, 01/20/2011
"USDA Unveils New Green, Bio-Based Product Label"
"Eco-minded shoppers will soon see a new U.S.-approved label on many products, including household cleaners and skin-care items, made with bio-based ingredients."
Source: USA TODAY, 01/20/2011
"World's First EV Racing Circuit Green Flagged for Summer 2011"
"The EV Cup -- the world's first circuit race series for zero-emission electric vehicles -- will hold its inaugural season of seven races this summer and fall."
Source: ENS, 01/20/2011
"MSHA Outlines Key Problems That Led to Mine Disaster"
Federal investigators Wednesday outlined allegations of safety violations as the likely factors that combined to produce the huge explosion that killed 29 miners on April 5 at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Mine.
Source: Charleston Gazette, 01/20/2011
"Arch Coal Finds a Passage to Asia"
Arch Coal's announcement of a second West Coast shipping terminal signals a trend toward increasing exports of strip-mined western coal to Asian nations like China, where demand outstrips supply. The implications for greenhouse emissions and accounting schemes for controlling them are huge.
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 01/20/2011
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