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Six tons of fish soup in Russia, 500 tons of pee in the Pacific
Investigators found that fisherman caught twice their legal quota of bluefin tuna in European waters this year, despite an early closure to the season due to the stocks' precipitous decline ...
... a trout farm in Nova Scotia was torn apart by Tropical Storm Noel, freeing an estimated 500,000 fish and causing $1 million in damages ...
... endangered humpback and fin whales swam hundreds of miles north of their usual habitats in search of colder waters. "All signs point to global warming," said an advocate ...
... Korean scientists successfully transported a live flatfish out of water for a 20-hour transatlantic flight to Los Angeles. The fish went into an induced hibernation inside a plastic bag ...
... an Australian company was planning to use 500 tons of industrial urea in a bid to promote plankton growth in the Pacific. The company preferred the term "nutrient injection" to "dumping" ...
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Friday music blogging: The Go! Team
2005’s debut album from The Go! Team — Thunder, Lighting, Strike — was a revelation. It sounded like nothing else on the planet. Reviewers fumbled for descriptions: late-’70s-cop-show-theme-song funk meets late-’80s girl rap meets sample-heavy electronica meets low-fi DIY garage production. Imagine walking down an urban street, with different music jamming out of different windows, […]
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From Batman to Bra
Holy overused headline, Batman! Riddle us this, riddle us that, who’s afraid of dirty water in the land of Chow Yun-Fat? Nananananananana … Batman! Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures Corn stars The King Corn documentarians have decided to live corn free (as free as the wind blows …) for 30 days, cobbling together a diet sans […]
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Climate change skeptics fall for hoax paper
UPDATE: I have to put this up top, because it’s so deliciously delightful. Turns out Rush Limbaugh fell for this scam, hook, line, and sinker. He bought it because he misunderstood a warning from notorious skeptic crank Roy Spencer — he thought Spencer was calling climate change, not the paper, a hoax. Spencer subsequently apologized […]
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Wind power installations set to soar 63 percent this year
US wind power installations are projected to jump 63 percent this year amid concern about global warming and rising fuel prices, an industry group said on Wednesday.
The US wind industry is on track to complete a total of 4,000 megawatts worth of installations in 2007, or about enough to power 1 million average homes, according to the American Wind Energy Association [AWEA].Tip o' the hat to state renewable energy standards and the federal production tax credit.
You can get more details from the AWEA website, including the third-quarter market report. Here are some state highlights:
- Texas again added the largest amount of new wind power generation (600 MW).
- Colorado installed 264 MW and now ranks as the state with the sixth-largest amount of wind power generation.
- Washington, with 140 MW of new wind capacity, pulls ahead of Minnesota into fourth place.
So yes, climate progress does occur, when the government works at it.
This post was created for ClimateProgress.org, a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
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Portland, Ore., will pay builders to build green
Portland, Ore., has unveiled an innovative plan to slash greenhouse-gas emissions. The city will require an energy-efficiency inspection of new homes, then levy a tax on builders who have merely complied with Oregon’s efficiency requirements. Builders who construct homes 30 percent more efficient than the state building code requires will escape the fee; those who […]
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New study finds that pollution from ships kills 60,000 a year
It's surprising how much pollution ships emit: over 2,000 tons of diesel soot a year in southern California, for example, about 10 percent of the total in the region.
Worse, a new study by researchers at the University of Delaware and Rochester Institute of Technology finds that the burning of cheap, dirty, sulfurous "residual oil" on ships kills an estimated 60,000 people around the world. "Premature mortality" is the phrase used in the study.
Annual average contribution of shipping to (particulate matter) PM<sub>2.5</sub> concentrations for Case 2b (in µg/m3). Copyright © 2007 American Chemical Society(h/t: The Blue Marble)
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Waterways downstream from oil sands are full o’ toxins, says study
Fish, water, and sediment downstream from the gigantic oil sands projects in Alberta are chock-full of carcinogens and other toxins, says a new study. While the research does not make a direct link between the oil sands, the toxins, and presumed health consequences, the largely Native residents of downstream community Fort Chipewyan have long suspected […]
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Blumenauer responds
In case you don’t read comments: In response to Mike Grunwald’s post on the Water Resources Development Act, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) of the Corps Reform Caucus explains why he made the difficult decision to vote for it.
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NBC sitcoms universally … unfunny
Last night I watched the TNSFKAMST (Thursday Night Shows Formerly Known as Must-See TV). To be honest I’d forgotten it was Green Is Universal week; I was just indulging in a little sitcom sitdown. But there was no escaping the green message, and it was … what’s the word? … artificial and painful and forced. […]
