Nuclear power must not be the poor relation
Telegraph View: Chris Huhne, the Energy Secretary, should not neglect the nuclear option
Archive for July 25th, 2010
Report: More than One Out of Three U.S. Counties Face Water Shortages Due to Climate Change
WASHINGTON (July 20, 2010) — More than 1,100 U.S. counties — a full one-third of all counties in the lower 48 states — now face higher risks of water shortages by mid-century as the result of global warming, and more than 400 of these counties will be at extremely high risk for water shortages, based [...]
Slideshow: Devastation following the spill from the BP Deepwater platform
As efforts to contain the oil spill continue, a new slideshow from our US colleagues details the ongoing consequences of the massive slick from the BP Deepwater Horizon platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
And you can see the complete Gulf Oil Spill photoset on Flickr as well.
1,500 ‘pet’ geese up for sale at ?5 each
Fancy a pet goose? A farmer has put 1,500 of the birds up for sale at just ?5 each after they reached the end of their commercial egg-producing life.
Baby boomer marmots fatten up with climate change
Colorado’s baby-boomer marmots have been getting fatter and their population has been swelling – the changes seem to be caused by the warming climate
Urge your representative to co-sponsor the Toxic Chemicals Safety Act
The Toxic Chemicals Safety Act would strengthen the current law regulating the use of industrial chemicals, which was enacted in 1976 and is in serious need of an overhaul. Urge your representative to co-sponsor the Toxic Chemical Safety Act (H.R. 5820).