Chinook Pass reopens
Source: Seattle Times
Yakima :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 10:50:45 -0700 | green-news
Crews worked more than a month clearing 20-feet deep snow and avalanches from Highway 410 on the east side of Mount Rainier National Park. Spokeswoman Summer Derrey says Friday's opening is a week ahead of the goal of opening the...
Montclair Environmental Coordinator Gray Russell wins "Boggie"
Source: Glen Rock Gazette
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 10:50:10 -0700 | green-news
The Montclair Times In the late 1980s, municipal Environmental Affairs Coordinator Gray Russell was working in the music business when he heard a lecture at the Museum of Natural History in New York City about the dwindling rainforests. Russell was...
Oil majors flock to offshore Brazil
Source: United Press International
Brasília :: Brazil | updated 2013-05-17 10:44:48 -0700 | green-news
French supermajor Total said it secured awards for 10 new exploration licenses during the latest auction for Brazilian reserves. Total said it will serve as the operator with a 40 percent stake in five blocks in the Foz do Amazonas...
Australia issues RFT for radar development
Source: United Press International
Canberra :: Australia | updated 2013-05-17 10:44:47 -0700 | green-news
Australia's CEA Technologies has received a Request for Tender for development of a High Power Phased Array Radar concept demonstrator. Royal Australian Navy's Future Frigates through Project SEA 5000," said Minister for Defense Materiel Mike Kelly.
Slow start to Utica shale boom
Source: United Press International
Columbus :: OH :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 10:44:46 -0700 | green-news
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources said natural gas production from the Utica shale play was slow but could pick up in the next few years. The Utica and Marcellus shale plays are among the most lucrative in the United...
Bipartisan praise heaped on energy chief Moniz
Source: United Press International
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 10:44:45 -0700 | green-news
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz will help position the United States as a world leader in terms of sustainable natural resources, President Obama said...Sen. Lisa Murkowski , R-Alaska, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, said both...
Stunning images of natural Britain capture animals in air, sea and on land as part of photography-...
Source: Mail Online UK
London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-17 10:44:34 -0700 | green-news
17 May 2013 A red deer stag peers out from behind the trees of a pine forest during a snow blizzard in the Cairngorms; a flock of northern gannets and a pod of killer whales feed in the wake of...
Expert issues UK tree threat warning
Source: BBC
London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-17 10:38:30 -0700 | green-news
The Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) wants the government to go further and ban imports of the three tree species, all of which have been the victims of potentially devastating infections overseas. Researchers hope the Opal tree survey will encourage people...
Buffalo Grove considers offering smaller trash containers
Source: The Daily Herald
Buffalo Grove :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 10:35:13 -0700 | green-news
The village manager's office said it will recommend a restructured agreement with Waste Management that will expand refuse options for its residential customers by offering a smaller 35-gallon toter for trash as well as recycling. The current contract, which runs...
Pioneering Italian Town Leads Europe in Waste Recycling
Source: Inter Press Service
Capannori :: Italy | updated 2013-05-17 10:34:56 -0700 | green-news
Capannori, a rural town in the Italian province of Lucca, in Tuscany, boasts a proud history. Six years ago, it became a trendsetter and leader, not just in Italy but throughout all of Europe, as the continent's first Zero Waste...
Migratory “Flyways” Decimated by Human Expansion
Source: Inter Press Service
Phetchaburi :: Thailand | updated 2013-05-17 10:34:00 -0700 | green-news
The spoon-billed sandpiper (Eurynorhynchus pygmeus), seen here in Phetchaburi, Thailand, could be extinct within a decade...Migratory birds, which play an important role in the complex web of life known as ecosystem services, are under threat as never before, with some...
Scientists fret as CO2 levels hit key mark
Source: Herald Tribune
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 10:32:22 -0700 | green-news
Scientists fret as CO2 levels near key mark In this Sunday, Dec. Jeffrey Energy Center coal power plant as the suns sets near Emmett, Kan. Charlie Riedel, via AP InsideClimate News Published: Friday, May 17, 2013 at 11:14 a.m...For the...
Earthquake reported in eastern Canada
Source: CNN
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 10:26:11 -0700 | green-news
The quake was centered about 11 miles (18 kilometers) from Shawville, in western Quebec, near the Ontario border. It was felt in the Ottawa-Gatineau area and out to Toronto, more than 260 miles away, and in New York state. Authorities...
NPS seeks public comment on park protection plans
Source: Anchorage Daily News
Fairbanks :: AK :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 10:25:42 -0700 | green-news
Alaska The National Park Service is taking public comment on draft land protection plans for two Alaska parks. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (http://is.gd/pP9zm2) reports that the draft protection plans were released this week for Lake Clark National Park and Preserve...
Tougher food-safety rules in the works, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says
Source: Star Phoenix
Saskatoon :: Canada | updated 2013-05-17 12:24:51 -0700 | green-news
Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says the country's food watchdog is planning to impose tougher rules to deal with the threat of E. coli in slaughterhouses. He says Canadian Food Inspection Agency will also require that meat plants producing mechanically tenderized...
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