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"Fireworks Likely Cause of Massive Ark. Bird Kill"

"It wasn't a secret government spraying program, Martians or gas seeping out of the New Madrid fault that killed the 5,000 or so blackbirds that died New Year's Eve in Beebe, Ark. It was someone shooting off professional grade fireworks in a residential district, scaring the night-blind birds out of their roost into a 25-mph flight that ran them into houses, signs and even the ground, says Karen Rowe, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission ornithologist."

Source: USA TODAY, 01/06/2011

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Join the authors of Sustainable Home Refurbishment and Solar Domestic Water Heating for an event that offers guidance to anyone wanting to improve the energy efficiency of their home and to professionals looking for guidance on the best techniques and materials.

Special 2011 Green Screen Newsradar Edition

SEJ's TipSheet lists the top 10 environmental subject areas we see coming up over the horizon — from environmental security, energy, and epigenetics to emerging climate issues, peak water, and more.

Texas Welcomes Low-Level Nuclear Waste from 36 Other States

"A Texas commission Tuesday set in motion the importation of low-level radioactive-waste from 36 other states, a move long sought by the nuclear-energy industry and long opposed by environmentalists."

Source: Wall St. Journal, 01/05/2011

"2010 in Review: the Year Climate Coverage 'Fell off the Map'"

"After spiking upward in response to Copenhagen talks and the 'climategate' uproar, media coverage of climate change plummeted to levels last seen in 2005, according to DailyClimate.org's archives and other media databases."

Source: Daily Climate, 01/05/2011

"Scientists Find 'Drastic' Weather-Related Atlantic Shifts"

"Scientists have found evidence of a 'drastic' shift since the 1970s in north Atlantic Ocean currents that usually influence weather in the northern hemisphere, Swiss researchers said on Tuesday."

Source: AFP, 01/05/2011

New Push To Strengthen Mine Safety Faces Resistance by Old Strategies

The Obama administration's efforts to toughen mine safety enforcement, following the Upper Big Branch disaster in April that killed 29, are encountering the same old evade-and-delay resistance from the mining industry. Those are the tactics that appear to have led to the disaster in the first place.

Source: Wash Post, 01/05/2011

MIT's Emanuel: a Conservative Who Believes in Climate Science

"MIT professor Kerry Emanuel is among a rare breed of conservative scientists who are sounding the alarm for climate change and criticizing Republicans' 'agenda of denial' and 'anti-science stance.'"

Source: LA Times, 01/05/2011

"EPA's Enforcers Try PR to Net Fugitives, Shed 'Tree Hugger' Image"

Meet the Giordanos -- a father-son team who fled to Italy as fugitives from the law when EPA enforcers got them indicted for importing Alfa Romeos that did not meet federal emission standards. Their faces are online in EPA's most wanted list.

Source: Greenwire, 01/05/2011

"Mocked as Uncool, the Minivan Rises Again"

"In marketing campaigns featuring heavy-metal theme songs, rapping parents, secret agents in cat masks, pyrotechnics and even Godzilla, minivan makers are trying to recast the much-ridiculed mom-mobile as something that parents can be proud -- or at least unashamed -- of driving."

Source: NYTimes, 01/05/2011

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