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Tangier Island being swallowed by Chesapeake Bay
From the air, this fishing outpost in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay for centuries resembled a giant fishing hook, a curved barb completing the picture on the northern tail of the island. But no more. The barb is gone, swallowed by a rising Bay and fast-eroding land. Now, Tangier ...
Florida Cabinet approves hurricane shelter plan
The construction of new public schools across Florida has contributed to a significant increase in the number of hurricane shelter spaces, according to a plan approved Tuesday by Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Cabinet. The Division of Emergency Management presented its updated statewide emergency plan to the cabinet at ...
SC Guard readies units for coming hurricane season
About a dozen of South Carolina's Army National Guard Blackhawk helicopters are deploying to Kosovo this summer, but Guard leaders said Tuesday that choppers from other states are available if needed for the upcoming hurricane season. "We are very well prepared," said Maj. Gen. Les Eisner, the Guard's deputy adjutant ...
Excuse me: Gassy dinosaurs helped warm Earth
Potty humor just got prehistoric. A new study suggests that dinosaurs may have helped keep an already overheated world warmer with their flatulence and burps 200 million years ago. The research published Monday in Current Biology suggests that large dinosaurs made a significant contribution to the greenhouse effect back then. ...
Utah activist reflects during time in prison
The sand, grass and sagebrush roll out across the valley floor before him, rising through thin air to the olive-drab mountain waves. This is where Salt Lake City environmentalist and federal drilling mutineer Tim DeChristopher takes his evening strolls, no barbed wire on the horizon and no one really watching ...
Detroit-man fined for illegal refrigerant deal
Federal prosecutors wanted prison but a judge has chosen a fine for a Detroit-area man arrested for trying to sell a refrigerant. Doug Mertz was ordered to pay $5,000 this week. He was accused of using Craigslist to sell 10 cans of R-22 refrigerant, which is used in air conditioners ...
As Japan shuts down nuclear power, emissions rise
The Fukushima crisis is eroding years of Japanese efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming, as power plants running on oil and natural gas fill the electricity gap left by now-shuttered nuclear reactors. Before last year's devastating tsunami triggered meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, Japan had ...
Endorser gives Christie 'D' grade on environment
Leaders of an environmental group that endorsed Gov. Chris Christie in 2009 say he may have adjusted his views on issues like climate change because of his rising stature on the national political stage. The New Jersey Environmental Federation on Thursday released a report card giving the Republican a grade ...
Federal coal sales in Powder River Basin draw suit
Citing worries over climate change, two environmental groups announced Thursday that they hope to derail government plans to sell leases on 2 billion tons of coal near a pair of major Wyoming mines. The Sierra Club and Wild Earth Guardians say mining and burning coal from the federal leases would ...
New study shows cholera strain has evolve
The cholera strain in Haiti is evolving, researchers reported Thursday, a sign that it may be taking deeper root in the nation less than two years after it appeared and killed thousands of people. The study released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that the bacterium ...
Greenland losing ice fast, but not runaway pace
Greenland's glaciers are hemorrhaging ice at an increasingly faster rate but not at the breakneck pace that scientists once feared, a new study says. The loss of ice from the glaciers that cover the island is about 30 percent faster than it was a decade ago, researchers said. That means ...
Goodbye La Nina: Will drought, hurricanes also go?
The La Nina weather phenomenon is over. Forecasters say that's good news for the drought in the South and hurricane areas along the coasts. The National Weather Service pronounced the two-year La Nina (NEEN'-yah) finished on Thursday. La Nina is the flip side of El Nino (NEEN'-yoh) and is caused ...
Protect Our Winters mobilizing skiers, boarders
Backcountry pro snowboarder Jeremy Jones says he's seen the effects of climate change up close after 18 years of heading to Alaska for deep winter powder. "Our season ends a week earlier than it used to. The glacier we use to land on, we can't anymore," Jones said. It's a ...
Feds prepare for another busy US fire season
More than 100 large fires have swept across parts of the nation already this year, and the head of the U.S. Forest Service said Thursday the rest of the 2012 fire season is expected to be just as active as last year's, which saw historic wildfires on hundreds of square ...
Study: Antarctic ice melting from warm water below
Antarctica's massive ice shelves are shrinking because they are being eaten away from below by warm water, a new study finds. That suggests that future sea levels could rise faster than many scientists have been predicting. The western chunk of Antarctica is losing 23 feet of its floating ice sheet ...
In '72, EPA battled pollution; now it's politics
A polluted drainage ditch that once flowed with industrial waste from Lake Charles, La., petrochemical plants teems with overgrown, wild plants today. A light-rail line zips past the spot where a now-defunct Portland, Ore., gasoline station advertised in 1972 that it had run out of gas. A smoking Jersey City, ...
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