Phivolcs to beef up Mt. Mayon monitoring instruments
Source: GMA News
Manila :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-20 01:35:19 -0700 | green-news
55pm In the wake of a steam-driven eruption that killed five mountain climbers, state volcanologists bared plans to beef up their monitoring instruments to detect volcanic activity at Mt. Mayon in Albay. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology...
Youths join hands to protect environment
Source: The Hindu
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-21 06:48:37 -0700 | green-news
All the species on the earth should be given equal importance, says convener of FBV The City of Destiny used to be a beautiful destination with more of greenery some five decades ago. However, it has gone through a lot...
Rocky Barker: Otter's peppergrass victory will wilt in sun
Source: The Idaho Statesman
Boise :: ID :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 00:54:15 -0700 | green-news
Gov. Butch Otter declared victory when the Obama administration dropped its appeal of a federal judge's decision to negate the listing of slickspot peppergrass as a threatened species...Magistrate Candy Dale refused in December to reconsider her ruling from the previous...
Mass. energy summit to focus on cutting costs
Source: Boston.com
Norwood :: MA :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 00:49:58 -0700 | green-news
Mass. (AP) Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley will host an energy summit to bring together experts in the field for discussions on ways to reduce energy costs and improve the state's competitiveness. Coakley said businesses have frequently cited high energy...
The Rainforest Action Network in the pantheon of cheats on palm oil!
Posted by: PalmHugger_
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 00:56:47 -0700 | green-news
There are some members of society who believe in a fair fight, and there are some that will always look for ways to get an unfair advantage in life and in battle. This does not only apply to a physical...
Tanzania: Oil, Gas Exploration Bids to Open Next Year
Source: Africa Headlines
Dar es Salaam :: Tanzania | updated 2013-05-20 00:30:32 -0700 | green-news
Dodoma THE Minister for Energy and Minerals, Prof Sospeter Muhongo, has said the government will open bids for gas and oil exploratory licences on May 9, 2014 at a time when the country will have the Natural Gas Policy and...
Water shortage in SA possible – Molewa
Source: News 24
Johannesburg :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-20 00:20:08 -0700 | green-news
Johannesburg There could be a shortage of clean water if South Africans do not work to conserve it, Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa said on Monday. "If we continue with this trend of using water as if it...
RAN officials facing prison time over false palm oil campaigns!
Posted by: deforestwatch
Chicago :: IL :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 00:29:21 -0700 | green-news
The courtroom was hushed as everyone waited with baited breath for the jury’s verdict. The defendants were for years, one of London’s most glittering couples: he a fast-rising politician with fashionably left-of-center views on social issues and a background in...
Sea butterflies: Spectacular photographs show beautiful but endangered sea butterflies as they swim ...
Source: Mail Online UK
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-20 00:15:00 -0700 | green-news
20 May 2013 We've all been taken aback by the beauty of a butterfly...Karen Osborn, a research zoologist at the Smithsonian Institute, has captured a series of never-before-recorded photographs of the fascinating creatures, which she collected while scuba diving off...
Olive Ridleys hit highs and lows
Source: The Hindu
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-20 00:01:42 -0700 | green-news
During the season, around 200 Ridley turtles were found dead on the coastline from Marina to Neelankarai, but 285 nests were also found on this stretch In about a couple of weeks, the last batch of Olive Ridley hatchlings will...
Arctic observatory finds 'alien' particles
Source: GMA News
Manila :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-20 00:01:20 -0700 | green-news
We're not totally certain right now that it's from an astrophysical source, it quoted Nathan Whitehorn of the University of WisconsinMadison, who described the new data May 15 during a symposium in Madison on particle astrophysics, as saying. Yet,...
The Lies we're told about palm oil: Part 3
Posted by: PalmOilTruth
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 00:08:31 -0700 | green-news
There is so much risible nonsense these days, but there’s nothing more risible than the disingenuous guff released by environmental groups on palm oil! It’s gotten so bad that when you read anything on palm oil, you should look beneath...
Invasive frogs carry amphibian-killing fungus
Source: Los Angeles Times
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-19 23:46:15 -0700 | green-news
After new technology made those pregnancy tests obsolete, the creatures were let loose, and thrived for decades in the state's drainage ditches and ponds. Now there are signs that the proliferation of African clawed frogs may be putting native species...
NY town eyes limit on use of Plum Island
Source: Charlotte Observer Online
Mineola :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-19 23:44:31 -0700 | green-news
Selling an island where scientists have experimented with infectious animal diseases since the dawn of the Cold War was going to be difficult enough. But it now appears any prospective buyer won't be able to do much with Plum Island...
Sacto 911: Hazardous materials leak reported in Norwood industrial park
Source: Sacramento Bee
Sacramento :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-19 23:21:36 -0700 | green-news
This blog sacbee.com Web May 19, 2013 Sacramento fire officials are responding to a hazardous material leak reported tonight in an industrial park in the Norwood neighborhood. A level 2 hazmat situation was declared around 9:15 p.m. at 4225 Pell...
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