Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano still rumbling
Source: Taiwan News
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-19 10:59:37 -0700 | green-news
The Popocatepetl volcano near Mexico City is still rumbling. Mexico's National Disaster Prevention Center says seismic activity shook the area early Sunday. And the 17,886-foot (5,450-meter) mountain also emitted gas, ash and glowing-hot rocks.
Fossils from Sindh need urgent attention
Source: DAWN
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-19 10:41:19 -0700 | green-news
In a lecture at Alliance Francaise in Karachi, Dr Rafique Ahmed Lashari form University of Sindh shared his views on paleontological studies carried out in Lakhra, Ranikot and Jharak areas, supported by the French government. In his lecture entitled Microfacies...
Tsuruga reactor's active fault
Source: Japan Times
Ōsaka :: Japan | updated 2013-05-19 09:34:42 -0700 | green-news
A five-member panel of the Nuclear Regulation Authority last Wednesday issued a report saying that the D-1 fracture zone of pebbles and sediment running beneath the No. Japan Atomic Power Co.'s Tsuruga nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture is an...
Rice planted in former no-go zone
Source: Japan Times
Ōsaka :: Japan | updated 2013-05-19 09:34:13 -0700 | green-news
Farmers in the city of Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, have begun planting rice in a district once designated a no-go zone because of radioactive fallout ejected by the disaster-hit Fukushima No...It is the first time since the March 2011 core meltdowns...
Sudan to sell stakes in four sugar plants -state media ...
Source: Qatar English Daily
Suna :: Russia | updated 2013-05-19 09:26:09 -0700 | green-news
The African country has been trying to boost its sugar output to offset the loss of most oil production, the main export product, to South Sudan after partition in 2011. Saturday, adding that the state would not completely withdraw from...
Be'er Tuviya residents protest gas plant
Source: Jerusalem Post
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2013-05-19 09:18:06 -0700 | green-news
The demonstration comes just three days after Home Front Defense Minister Gilad Erdan filed an appeal against a ministerial committee's recent decision to approve the plans, calling upon the government to reduce the local population's risk to missile attacks.
Invest in Solutions for a Warming World
Source: The Motley Fool
Alexandria :: VA :: USA | updated 2013-05-19 08:35:09 -0700 | green-news
A thorough understanding of climate change generally spurs long-term investors to make serious adjustments to their risk assumptions for particular companies and industries. This is absolutely appropriate, but it's also just one side of the coin. On the other side,...
The 3 Top Polluting States
Source: The Motley Fool
Baton Rouge :: LA :: USA | updated 2013-05-19 08:35:03 -0700 | green-news
Every state in this nation represents a diverse array of people, places, and pollution. A new report released this week lists the top carbon dioxide-emitting states among us, and the numbers are as shocking as they are disparate. Let's look...
Keeping man-animal conflict at bay
Source: The Hindu
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-19 08:27:35 -0700 | green-news
Lookout towers have been put up inside Neyyar, Peppara, and Agasthyavanam forests to spot wild animals. At 6 a.m. on all days, except Sunday, Bhagavan Kani, a forest tribal, clambers up a narrow bamboo ladder to get to a watch...
11 killed in two months as man-animal conflict at its peak in Chandrapur
Source: The Hindu
Chandrapur :: India | updated 2013-05-19 08:27:38 -0700 | green-news
On April 10, 55 year old Tukaram Dharane was walking back to his village Adegaon in Chandrapur district of Maharashtra after dropping some of his relatives at the bus stop which is two km away from his village. On the...
Heavy rains close Atlanta area roads
Source: SF Gate
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | updated 2013-05-19 08:18:27 -0700 | green-news
Heavy rains in the Atlanta area have caused flooded roads and a mud slide. Officials in Hall County reported Sunday that Atlanta Highway in the Flowery Branch area was flooded and impassable...Officials in Gwinnett County said Highway 316 at Duluth...
Analysis: Airline emissions deal may not come before EU deadline
Source: Turks and Caicos Free Press
Brussels :: Belgium | updated 2013-05-19 08:10:55 -0700 | green-news
A passenger aircraft is silhouetted against the rising moon in New Delhi May 7, 2009. Hope is fading for a global deal to regulate the airline industry's greenhouse gas emissions ahead of a fall deadline, even though failure could push...
German energy shift faces headwinds
Source: News 24
Pulheim :: Germany | updated 2013-05-19 07:46:56 -0700 | green-news
Tense engineers have their eyes peeled on complex colour-coded diagrams on a wall-sized screen that makes their control room look like the inside of a spaceship. They work with a power system that would have seemed equally futuristic not so...
Forest fire razes 40ha in Dungun
Source: The Star
Dungun :: Malaysia | updated 2013-05-19 07:00:24 -0700 | green-news
A 12-hour fire, suspected of being started by the open burning of rubbish, razed more than 40ha of forest in Kuala Abang here. Dungun Fire and Rescue Department senior officer Abdullah Ahmad said the fire was believed to have started...
German minister calls EU move on China solar 'grave mistake'
Source: Reuters
Brussels :: Belgium | updated 2013-05-19 06:51:42 -0700 | green-news
Analysis & Opinion Germany's Vice Chancellor and Free Democrats (FDP) party Chairman Philipp Roesler attends an extraordinary FDP Party meeting in Nuremberg May 4, 2013. German Economy Minister Philipp Roesler said the European Commission made a "grave mistake" by agreeing...
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