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Giant
ice island breaks off Greenland: Floating ice sheet is
four times the size of Manhattan, scientists say (MSNBC.com, 8/8/10)
Biggest
ice island for 48 years breaks off Greenland glacier: Scientists say the 100 square mile ice
island, 600ft thick, is 'very unusual' and the biggest formation of its kind
since 1962 (By Damien Pearse, The [UK]
Guardian, 8/7/10)
Princeton
Review's Green Honor Roll Omits Colleges That Complained About Ratings.
Coincidence? (By Scott Carlson, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 8/6/10)
Information
Commons Reduces Energy Consumption: Loyola University's library in Chicago is setting
new standards for environmental friendliness (By Ted Strand,
American Libraries, 8/6/10)
Wildfires
Ravaging Swaths of Russia (By Andrew E. Kramer, The New York Times, 8/6/10)
Russian
heatwave kills 5,000 as fires rage out of control: Russia's devastating summer heatwave has
cost almost 5,000 lives, according to officials who conceded yesterday that the
state was struggling to gain control over the worst wildfires in decades. (By Damien McElroy, The [UK] Telegraph, 8/6/10)
Wheat
Shortage May Mean Higher Grocery Bills: Cost of Bread, Cereal Likely to Rise;
Poorer Countries Will Feel Brunt (By Rich Blake, ABC News, 8/6/10)
Senator
Begich: Oil-spill liability deal is imminent (By Ben Geman,
The Hill, 08/05/10)
Dangerous
Heat Wave Bakes 18 States From Texas To New York (By Holbrook Mohr,
Huffington Post, 8/5/10)
Russian
President Dmitry Medvedev: "Everyone is talking about climate change
now." (By Nick Sundt, World Wildlife Fund - Climate Change Blog, 8/5/10)
Flood-hit
Pakistan to evacuate 500,000 in south: Worst monsoon rains in decades kill 1,500 and
threaten further destruction as storm moves south (By Ashraf Khan, The Associated Press as
reported by Salon.com, 8/5/10)
Gulf
Oil Spill Gone? Not So Fast (Texas A&M News and Information Services,
8/5/10)
California
college is first to go 'grid positive' (By Daniel de Vise, The Washington Post, 8/4/10)
Government
Estimates of Oil From Spill Raise New Doubts Among Researchers (By Paul
Basken, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 8/4/10)
BP
partners won't pay cleanup costs: Anadarko Petroleum and
Mitsui are billed $1.68 billion as their shares of the Gulf oil spill cleanup.
They argue that BP's negligence caused the spill. (By Charlie Blaine, MSN.com - Money
Central, 8/4/10)
Gulf
Oil Spill: NSF Funds Research on Impacts to Florida Everglades: Extensive seagrass beds, mangrove forests to
be studied
(National Science Foundation, Press Release, 8/4/10)
BP
reports 'static kill' success; scientists say majority of oil has been
dispersed, removed (By William Branigin and David A. Fahrenthold, The
Washington Post, 8/4/10)
U.S.
Finds Most Oil From Spill Poses Little Additional Risk (By Justin Gillis,
The New York Times, 8/4/10)
Scientists
cast doubt on claims BP spill's no threat to Gulf (By Erika Bolstad, Renee
Schoof and Margaret Talev, McClatchy Newspapers, 8/4/10)
BP
will try to cement Deepwater Horizon well today (By Mark Siebel, McClatchy
Newspapers, 8/4/10)
BP
oil spill: Obama administration's scientists admit alarm over chemicals
Environmental
Protection Agency experts expressed concerns to superiors about use of
dispersants, says whistleblower group (By Suzanne
Goldenberg, The [UK] Guardian, 8/3/10)
Should
the Government Subsidize Electric Cars? (By Daniel
Indiviglio, The Atlantic, 8/3/10)
Oil
spill dumped 4.9 million barrels into Gulf of Mexico, latest measure shows
(By Joel Achenbach and
David A. Fahrenthold, The Washington Post,
8/3/10)
Senate
Democrats delay energy bill vote (By Robert Schroeder, Market Watch, 8/3/10)
Gulf
oil flow was 12 times more than feds' original estimate (By Erika Bolstad
and Lesley Clark, McClatchy Newspapers, 8/2/10)
Garbage islands
threaten China's Three Gorges dam: Thousands
of tons of garbage washed down by recent torrential rain are threatening to jam
the locks of China's massive Three Gorges Dam, and is in places so thick people
can stand on it, state media said on Monday. (By Erika
Bolstad and Lesley Clark, McClatchy Newspapers, 8/2/10)
Gulf
Dead Zone The Size Of Massachusetts (The Huffington Post, 8/2/10)
The
truth about global warming (The Washington Post - Op Ed, 8/2/10)
Gulf Spill
Is the Largest of Its Kind, Scientists Say (By Campbell Robertson and
Clifford Krauss, 8/2/10)
Clock's
ticking: Carbon emissions must peak by 2015 (Greenbag Blog, 8/2/10)
'Nothing
left' for Pakistan flood survivors: Up to 2 million people in
need of assistance; government inaction protested (MSNBC.com, 8/2/10)
A
President's House Inspires Beyond-the-Box Thinking (By Scott Carlson, The
Chronicle of Higher Education, 8/2/10)
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