Nigeria prepares for flood season
Source: United Press International
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-06-17 12:46:38 -0700 | green-news
Nigeria is preparing for its annual flood season while still recovering from last year's floods that killed hundreds of people, officials said. The Nigerian Meteorological Agency said this year's rainfall, which has already begun and will last until September, will...
Quivira hunting proposal worries conservationists
Source: The Hutchinson News
Stafford :: KS :: USA | updated 2013-06-17 12:39:29 -0700 | green-news
Conservationists are raising concerns that a proposal to expand hunting at the Quivira National Wildlife Refuge in south-central Kansas could threaten whooping cranes that migrate through there, while refuge managers contend the federally endangered birds would be protected.
Flash floods claim 15 lives in U.P.
Source: The Hindu
Āgra :: India | updated 2013-06-17 18:17:02 -0700 | green-news
Flash floods following heavy rain in the past 24 hours have claimed 15 lives in Uttar Pradesh with Saharanpur district bearing the brunt of the deluge. All the casualties have been reported from Saharanpur city and adjoining areas. Massive rescue...
Green economy a boost for youth jobs
Source: News 24
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-06-17 12:34:46 -0700 | green-news
The waste sector is vital to the generation of jobs within the green economy, Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa said on Monday. "It is in this light that the department is increasingly expanding its programmes in job creation...
Q&A: Where Rubber Meets Road
Source: The New York Times
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-06-17 12:23:20 -0700 | green-news
While shreds from lost tires often show up along the highways, friction gradually wears the surfaces of most tires into a fine black powder. It unobtrusively blends with road dust and other automobile waste, like particles of motor oil. Waste...
Kenya in partnership to combat overfishing in Lake Victoria
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-06-17 12:02:09 -0700 | green-news
Kenya, Germany, and Israel have entered into a trilateral agreement to improve tilapia farming in Kenya with a view to combating overfishing in Lake Victoria. The initial one-year phase, to run from June 2013 to June 2014 at a cost...
Hillsdale study deems dam rehabilitation project to be safe, but project remains on hold
Source: Record
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-06-17 11:49:02 -0700 | green-news
In its study commissioned by the Hillsdale Borough Council, GEI Consultants, Inc., a geotechnical, environmental and ecological science and engineering consulting firm based in New York, concludes, "It is our opinion that there will not be a significant change in...
Lawsuits filed against Calif.'s Delta Plan
Source: SF Gate
Fresno :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-17 11:48:37 -0700 | green-news
Calif. (AP) Environmental and fishing groups have filed a lawsuit against a broad, long-range plan to manage the ailing Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The lawsuit announced on Monday is the fourth lawsuit filed against the Delta Plan over the past month....
2 Md. tornadoes among 7 reported in Friday storms
Source: Baltimore Sun
Rockville :: MD :: USA | updated 2013-06-17 11:44:40 -0700 | green-news
Two tornadoes confirmed to have touched down in Maryland on Friday are among seven tornado reports from the storms, with several others spotted in Tennessee and Georgia...Both were rated EF-0 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, the weakest category of tornado,...
Village bids farewell to woman whose son died in Ya'an quake
Source: China News
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-06-17 11:40:11 -0700 | green-news
Zhang, 40, took pesticide on Sunday afternoon, becoming the first known suicide in the aftermath of the magnitude-7 earthquake that struck Ya'an, a city that administers Lushan, on April 20. The disaster left 193 people dead, 25 missing and 12,211...
Official: Competing apps could slow LNG project
Source: Anchorage Daily News
Fairbanks :: AK :: USA | updated 2013-06-17 11:08:02 -0700 | green-news
Alaska Competing applications to provide natural gas distribution in North Pole could slow decisions important to an overall liquefied natural gas trucking plan, a state official said. Gene Therriault, deputy director of the Alaska Energy Authority, told the Fairbanks City...
N.J., Avon get $53M for Sandy waterway debris costs
Source: Record
Avon :: OH :: USA | updated 2013-06-17 11:02:41 -0700 | green-news
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and a shore community will receive more than $53 million in federal reimbursement for the cost of removing debris from waterways after Superstorm Sandy. The DEP will get more than $51 million in...
Five missing, over 50 houses swept away in western Nepal
Source: NewKerala
Kathmandu :: Nepal | updated 2013-06-17 10:41:35 -0700 | green-news
Normal life was hit in some districts of the region after the swollen Mahakali river (known as Sharda in India) inundated homes, as well as sweeping away habitations and government offices and a hospital. The worst hit was Khalanga, the...
Mega-projects to fuel power demand, need for coal plants
Source: The Nation
Vientiane :: Laos | updated 2013-06-17 10:41:18 -0700 | green-news
The Energy Ministry is drafting an electricity-generation development plan from now to 2030 that will differ from the Power Development Plan 2010 as the demand for power is expected to surge to 70,000 megawatts by 2030, driven by the various...
Dayton asks feds to open CRP lands to haying, grazing
Source: Star Tribune
Minneapolis :: MN :: USA | updated 2013-06-17 10:32:27 -0700 | green-news
Please enter recipient valid email address. Gov. Mark Dayton has asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to allow emergency haying and grazing on lands enrolled in the federal Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) and Wetland Reserve Program (WRP). Such action, if...
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