Wild turkeys relocated from Davis-Monthan air base
Source: Arizona Daily Sun
Flagstaff :: AZ :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 10:32:44 -0700 | green-news
The Associated Press The Associated Press 1 hour ago A group of wild turkeys is now roaming Mount Lemmon after being captured at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Managers with the Arizona Game and Fish Department and the base's cultural and...
Conmen target land compensation scheme in Kirinyaga
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-18 10:19:28 -0700 | green-news
Fraudsters have invaded Kirinyaga County and are frustrating government's efforts to compensate farmers to pave way for the construction of Sh13 billion water dam for the expansion of rice irrigation. The conmen are posing as farmers and presenting fake title...
Eggs, tomatoes missing from Kakamega shops
Source: Daily Nation
Mumias :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-18 10:19:23 -0700 | green-news
Many families in Kakamega County are not eating eggs and tomatoes because of an acute shortage in the region. And at the few supermarkets where they are available, prices have doubled with fertilised and unfertilised eggs being sold for Sh20...
Namibia: Pohamba to Declare Drought an Emergency
Source: Africa Headlines
Windhoek :: Namibia | updated 2013-05-18 09:43:29 -0700 | green-news
Hifikepunye Pohamba is expected to officially declare a state of emergency soon in the face of the devastating drought that is ravaging the country. This was said by Prime Minister Hage Geingob during a meeting with regional governors on the...
No damage after 4.3 quake hits near Eureka
Source: Sacramento Bee
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 09:41:29 -0700 | green-news
There are no reports of damage or injuries after a 4.3 magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of Northern California...Paul Caruso says the agency has received reports that it was felt in Eureka and nearby Ferndale, but a Eureka police...
Arctic Tundra ‘Will Turn to Forest'
Source: Truthdig
Moscow :: Russia | updated 2013-05-18 09:41:28 -0700 | green-news
Arctic, the disappearance of tundra and forests up to the edge of the newly open ocean is how the north will look as the natural world reacts to the new climate caused by carbon dioxide reaching 400 parts per million...
Work done at ex-brownfield site on Detroit River
Source: SF Gate
Trenton :: NJ :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 09:15:29 -0700 | green-news
Mich. (AP) Major environmental restoration work has been completed on a former industrial site along the Detroit River, officials announced Saturday...Fish and Wildlife Service and others have been working for nearly a decade on the restoration of the Detroit River...
Montana investigating bison deaths north of YNP
Source: SF Gate
Missoula :: MT :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 09:15:24 -0700 | green-news
Mont. (AP) State veterinarians have been sent to examine bison carcasses north of Yellowstone National Park amid concerns the bison might have acquired a deadly disease from domestic sheep. Pat Flowers of Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks tells the Independent...
Concerns raised on nuclear plant evacuation plan
Source: SF Gate
Harrisburg :: PA :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 08:42:36 -0700 | green-news
Pa. (AP) Eric Epstein wouldn't wish for a Three Mile Island disaster to prove his argument the region is unprepared for the subsequent traffic jam. He'll settle for Thursday's tanker truck explosion that paralyzed traffic across much of the Harrisburg...
Dirty beaches make sick oceans, says group
Source: Seattle Times
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 08:40:41 -0700 | green-news
Dirty beaches make sick oceans, says group The nonprofit Ocean Conservancy says every piece of trash affects the oceans' health and as a result the economy, the environment and animal health. And plastics carry extra costs. By Erika Bolstad McClatchy...
Tension mounts in Posco project area as villagers oppose work
Source: The Hindu
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-18 08:10:49 -0700 | green-news
Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti activists stage a demonstration Tension prevailed in the Posco project area in Jagatsinghpur district on Thursday as hundreds of agitated villagers came out to oppose digging of a trench for construction of a boundary wall along...
Sea turtle comeback in a corner of the Caribbean
Source: Boston.com
Paramaribo :: Suriname | updated 2013-05-18 08:09:08 -0700 | green-news
Trinidad (AP) Giant leatherback turtles, some weighing half as much as a small car, drag themselves out of the ocean and up the sloping shore on the northeastern coast of Trinidad while villagers await wearing dimmed headlamps in the dark....
Water shortage due to maximum output at treatment plants, says Syabas
Source: The Star
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | updated 2013-05-18 07:30:44 -0700 | green-news
Supply of clean water in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur is steadily decreasing due to water treatment plants reaching maximum production levels, according to Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor (Syabas). It said the treatment plants could no longer cater to increasing demand...
A New Climate Could Destroy Even the Biggest Energy Stocks
Source: The Motley Fool
Brussels :: Belgium | updated 2013-05-18 06:21:24 -0700 | green-news
For the first time ever, carbon dioxide sensors in Hawaii reported that the average daily reading of carbon dioxide concentration surpassed 400 parts per million. This number comes as no surprise, as we've been heading toward it for decades. In...
Punjab, Haryana stare at lower wheat arrivals
Source: The Hindu
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-18 06:19:11 -0700 | green-news
PTI Labourers unload wheat bags at a market on the outskirts of Chandigarh on April 17, 2013. What was supposed to be a bumper crop with a record target for wheat procurement has turned out to be a dampener with...
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