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Green is the new organic in wines (Reuters)
Posted: 78 days, 13 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Environment)]
Reuters - It's easy being green in Mendocino, California, where many of the county's 84 vintners are certified organic, biodynamic or carbon neutral.
Storms pelt Midwest, cause flooding in Indiana (AP)
Posted: 78 days, 13 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Weather)]
AP - Crews evacuated two mobile home parks near a small dam and firefighters rescued several people from floodwaters after thunderstorms dumped up to 5 inches of rain in central Indiana, causing widespread flash flooding.
Whaling ban must stay, say 200 scientists (AFP)
Posted: 78 days, 13 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Environment)]
AFP - More than 200 scientists and experts Tuesday called on the International Whaling Commission to maintain its ban on commercial whaling to ensure the future of species depleted by industrial hunting.
New NOAA Website Highlights Economic and Ecological Value of America’s Coast
Posted: 78 days, 13 hours ago	[NOAA]
NOAA today launched State of the Coast, an important new website that provides coastal managers, planners and officials at all levels of government a snapshot of statistics, facts and graphics about America’s 95,000-miles of coastline.
Kent Wells technical updates
Posted: 78 days, 13 hours ago	[BP Spill Feed]
Technical briefings on the Gulf of Mexico oil by Kent Wells, Senior Vice-President of E&P
John Glenn to NASA: Keep Those Space Shuttles Flying (SPACE.com)
Posted: 78 days, 13 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Space)]
SPACE.com - Famed Mercury astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, is urging NASA to keep its space shuttles flying beyond their planned 2010 retirement to fill a gap in U.S spaceflight capability until a suitable replacement arises.
EPA Awards over $49,000 for Green Jobs for New Mexico High School Students (NM)
Posted: 78 days, 14 hours ago	[EPA]
(Dallas, Texas – June 22, 2010) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that the Earth Works Institute (EWI) and Gila Resources Information Project (GRIP) were selected for federal funds to provide green job training for high school students in New Mexico
House to vote on subpoena power for spill panel (AP)
Posted: 78 days, 14 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Environment)]
AP - House Democratic leaders plan to pass a bill this week that would give subpoena power to the panel investigating the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Neb. N-plant declares low-level emergency state (AP)
Posted: 78 days, 14 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Environment)]
AP - A nuclear power plant near Brownville in southeast Nebraska notified public and federal regulators early Tuesday that it was in a low-level emergency state because of flooding from the rising Missouri River nearby.
BP's diplomat centre stage in spill response (Reuters)
Posted: 78 days, 14 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Environment)]
Reuters - BP Plc chief Tony Hayward is handing day to day control of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill operation to Bob Dudley, a soft-spoken American unlikely to repeat the gaffes which have come to define his boss in many Americans' minds.
EPA to Hold Public Meeting Regarding the Red Panther Superfund Site Assessment, Clarksdale, Mississippi (MS)
Posted: 78 days, 14 hours ago	[EPA]
(Atlanta, Ga. – June 22, 2010) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold a public meeting on Thursday, June 24, 2010 regarding the Red Panther Superfund site in Clarksdale, Mississippi
Oil drillers, users say world needs deepwater wells (Reuters)
Posted: 78 days, 14 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Environment)]
Reuters - Energy chiefs defended deepwater oil as crucial to meeting future demand, saying on Tuesday that a prolonged U.S. drilling ban in response to the giant Gulf of Mexico spill could stoke costs and threaten security of supply.
Two Massachusetts Companies Face Fines for Clean Water Act Violations (MA)
Posted: 78 days, 14 hours ago	[EPA]
(Boston, Mass. – June 22, 2010) – Discharges of muddy storm water from a construction site, in violation of the federal Clean Water Act, has prompted EPA to file an enforcement action seeking penalties against two companies constructing a residential development in Ayer, Mass
Meat Mountain, Mosquitoes and, Finally, Caribou
Posted: 78 days, 14 hours ago	[NY Times Environment]
After two days on the Utukok river, the team spotted a dozing grizzly bear, willow ptarmigan, plenty of mosquitoes, and, finally, hundreds of caribou.
Polar weather satellites twin up
Posted: 78 days, 14 hours ago	[BBC]
The next-generation of Europe's polar orbiting weather satellites will fly as pairs when they launch late this decade.
Earth Watch
Posted: 78 days, 14 hours ago	[BBC]
National interests predominate at whaling talks
Volunteer Training at Gulf Islands National Seashore
Posted: 78 days, 14 hours ago	[National Park Service]
Gulf Islands National Seashore - Gulf Islands National Seashore Acting Superintendent Dan Brown announced volunteer training for individuals who want to help Gulf Islands National Seashore in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The park is recruiting for beach volunteers to provide visitor information in the Florida District at the Santa Rosa, Fort Pickens, and Perdido Key Areas. A training session for people interested in volunteering will be held on Saturday, June 26, 2010 from 10 to 11 a.m. at the Naval Live Oaks Visitor Center in Gulf Breeze, Florida.
Pennsylvania: Educational Publications
Posted: 78 days, 15 hours ago	[Geology.com]
The Pennsylvania Geological Survey has thirteen publications from their Educational Series posted online. ES-1: Rocks and minerals of Pennsylvania ES-2: Common fossils of Pennsylvania ES- 3: The Geology of Pennsylvania’s Groundwater ES- 4 : The Geological Story of Pennsylvania ES- 5: Geology and the Gettysburg Campaign ES-6: Pennsylvania and the Ice Age ES-7: Coal in Pennsylvania ES-8: Oil and Gas in Pennsylvania ES-9: Landslides in Pennsylvania ES-10: Earthquake [...]
Pennsylvania: Educational Publicatoins
Posted: 78 days, 15 hours ago	[Geology.com]
The Pennsylvania Geological Survey has thirteen publications from their Educational Series posted online. ES-1: Rocks and minerals of Pennsylvania ES-2: Common fossils of Pennsylvania ES- 3: The Geology of Pennsylvania’s Groundwater ES- 4 : The Geological Story of Pennsylvania ES- 5: Geology and the Gettysburg Campaign ES-6: Pennsylvania and the Ice Age ES-7: Coal in Pennsylvania ES-8: Oil and Gas in Pennsylvania ES-9: Landslides in Pennsylvania ES-10: Earthquake [...]
Puffy star looks like cosmic jellyfish
Posted: 78 days, 15 hours ago	[MSNBC Space]
Space.com: A new NASA photo of a star shedding its gassy layers bears a striking resemblance to a red jellyfish floating in a sea of green kelp. It is 35 times more massive than our sun. Jellyfish - NASA - Space.com - Technology - Space
A Tuna Escape Raises Hackles
Posted: 78 days, 15 hours ago	[NY Times Environment]
Environmental activists from the Sea Shepherd group took their defense of the bluefin tuna to a new level, using scuba divers to cut the nets on an undersea cage and releasing hundreds of the fish off the North African coast.
Huge Earthquakes in Oregon
Posted: 78 days, 15 hours ago	[Geology.com]
James Roddey of the Oregon Department of Geology asks people what they have in their earthquake preparedness kit and explains why Oregon can have earthquakes larger than those that occur in California.
EPA to Seek Employee Participation in Chemical Safety Inspections (HQ)
Posted: 78 days, 15 hours ago	[EPA]
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released interim guidance that would provide greater transparency in the agency’s chemical safety inspections process
Huge Wildfire Near Flagstaff
Posted: 78 days, 15 hours ago	[Geology.com]
Dry weather near Flagstaff, Arizona was one of the factors that enabled a wildfire to quickly spread to over 5000 acres forcing hundreds of people to evacuate their homes.
IAEA ready to help Egypt with nuclear programme (AFP)
Posted: 78 days, 15 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Environment)]
AFP - The International Atomic Energy Agency is ready to help Egypt in the construction of nuclear power stations, IAEA chief Yukiya Amano said on Tuesday during a visit to Cairo.
Preservation Award for Barracks Building #22 at Gateway NRA's Sandy Hook
Posted: 78 days, 16 hours ago	[National Park Service]
Gateway National Recreation Area - New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium/New Jersey Sea Grant (NJMSC/NJSG) has received a 2010 Monmouth County Historical Commission Historic Preservation Award in recognition of its efforts and accomplishments to restore and preserve Barracks Building #22 at Sandy Hook, which has served as the organization’s headquarters since 1972.
Oil Slick a Mess of Swirls in Satellite Photo
Posted: 78 days, 16 hours ago	[Livescience]
The oil appears as a maze of silvery-gray ribbons in a new photo-like image taken on Saturday, June 19.
A Vegetable Oil for the Future?
Posted: 78 days, 16 hours ago	[Livescience]
A never-before studied fat has potential as a very low calorie veggie oil—and a direct biofuel, say scientists.
Study Shows Big Economic Benefits of NOAA PORTS® Ocean Observing System in Portland, Ore.
Posted: 78 days, 16 hours ago	[NOAA]
The lower Columbia River area receives an estimated annual economic benefit of $6.4 million in savings and direct income from the operation of NOAA’s Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System, also known as PORTS®, according to a new study by NOAA and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Gateway NRA Added to the National System of Marine Protected Areas
Posted: 78 days, 16 hours ago	[National Park Service]
Gateway National Recreation Area - In an effort to conserve critical natural and cultural marine resources, the U.S. Departments of Interior and Commerce are partnering with federal, state and territorial agencies to add 29 existing marine protected areas (MPAs) to the National System of Marine Protected Areas. Gateway National Recreation Area, located in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island Boroughs of New York City and Sandy Hook, New Jersey, is one of the 29 marine protected areas added to the national system.
Gazprom Cuts Gas to Belarus
Posted: 78 days, 16 hours ago	[Geology.com]
Belarus has received natural gas from Gazprom, Russia’s government-controlled gas company, but has refused to pay GazProm’s current rates since the beginning of the year. The Russian government instructed Gazprom to start cutting the amount of gas sent to the country.
Rains burst levee in southern China, 88,000 flee (AP)
Posted: 78 days, 16 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Weather)]
AP - Torrential rains burst a dike in southern China, sending 88,000 people fleeing their homes and prompting China's top leaders to call Tuesday for stepped-up rescue operations.
Free Concerts at Gettysburg NMP
Posted: 78 days, 16 hours ago	[National Park Service]
Gettysburg National Military Park - Civil War band music fills the air at Gettysburg this weekend!
Study Affirms Consensus on Climate Change
Posted: 78 days, 16 hours ago	[NY Times Environment]
A new paper finds an overwhelming consensus about climate change among scientists actively working in the field.
Evidence for a Consensus on Climate Change
Posted: 78 days, 17 hours ago	[NY Times Environment]
A new paper finds an overwhelming consensus about climate change among scientists actively working in the field.
Rains burst levee in southern China, 68,000 flee (AP)
Posted: 78 days, 17 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Weather)]
AP - Torrential rains burst a dike in southern China, sending 68,000 people fleeing their homes and prompting China's top leaders to call Tuesday for stepped-up rescue operations for the thousands still in danger.
Oil execs in London slam Obama's drilling ban (AP)
Posted: 78 days, 17 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Environment)]
AP - Oil industry executives on Tuesday sharply criticized President Barack Obama's six-month ban on deepwater drilling, saying the world did not have enough other sources of oil to eliminate using deepsea rigs.
BP shares touch 13-year low as cost concerns weigh (Reuters)
Posted: 78 days, 17 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Environment)]
Reuters - Shares in BP fell to a 13-year low on Tuesday on concerns over the oil major's exposure to costs associated with the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Greenpeace protestor disrupts BP boss speech (AFP)
Posted: 78 days, 17 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Environment)]
AFP - A Greenpeace protestor disrupted a speech on Tuesday by a top BP executive standing in for the oil group's boss Tony Hayward at a London oil conference.
Flaring
Posted: 78 days, 18 hours ago	[BP Spill Feed]
Photographs of flaring onsite MC 252 in the Gulf of Mexico
Science sizes up 'ghost particle'
Posted: 78 days, 18 hours ago	[BBC]
Astronomers have made the most accurate measurement yet of the mass of a mysterious neutrino or "ghost particle".
`The Last of the Tribe' tells lone Indian's tale (AP)
Posted: 78 days, 18 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Environment)]
AP - "The Last of the Tribe: The Epic Quest to Save a Lone Man in the Amazon" (Scribner, $26), by Monte Reel: Monte Reel gets right to the heart of the dilemma facing modern-day Brazil as its rush to develop the vast Amazon rain forest rapidly collides with the last vestiges of cultures whose way of life has changed little since the Stone Age.
Oil threatens key Gulf algae and its ecosystem (AP)
Posted: 78 days, 18 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Environment)]
AP - It looks dirty and muddy, a brown mass of weeds with gas-filled berries that allow it to float on the Gulf of Mexico's waters. Sometimes it washes ashore, getting caught in the toes of barefoot beachgoers or stuck to the bottom of flip-flops.
Can Earth Survive? (LiveScience.com)
Posted: 78 days, 18 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Environment)]
LiveScience.com - The millions upon millions of gallons of oil hemorrhaging into the Gulf of Mexico every day is a crude reminder of the many ways humans are fouling the planet. As forests are cleared, cities and suburbs paved and expanded, as the air and sea warm and become increasingly polluted with cancer-causing chemicals and garbage, and with species dropping like flies, the planet's health is being challenged in ways that have not occurred in its entire 4.5-billion-year existence.
Honeybees survive in desert oasis
Posted: 78 days, 19 hours ago	[BBC]
Honeybees living deep in the Sahara desert have survived without contact with other bees for millennia, a new study reveals.
Verizon readies home energy and security services
Posted: 78 days, 19 hours ago	[CNET]
Will cable and phone operators be a quicker path than utilities to automated home energy conservation? Verizon will find out later this year.
N.Korea says puts 'great effort' into environment
Posted: 78 days, 19 hours ago	[Reuters]
SEOUL (Reuters) - There are no private cars in North Korea and countless factory chimneys have not belched smoke in years, but state media said on Tuesday scientists were inventing new ways to cut air pollution and protect the environment.
Fish farming set to grow as demand for food rises
Posted: 78 days, 19 hours ago	[Reuters]
DRACE, Croatia (Reuters) - Despite two decades of hardship, war and a loss of markets, Matko Jasprica has kept his Croatian fish farm alive and now hopes to start exporting sea bass and sea bream to the European Union.
The nation's weather (AP)
Posted: 78 days, 19 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Weather)]
AP - Scattered storms were forecast to persist over the Great Lakes and Midwest on Tuesday as a low pressure system slowly moved through the Central U.S.
Australia moves to tighten renewable energy market
Posted: 78 days, 20 hours ago	[Reuters]
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia moved on Tuesday to give clean energy investors greater certainty over investment returns as part of efforts to have a revised renewable energy scheme approved by parliament.
Payback time
Posted: 78 days, 20 hours ago	[BBC]
Cost is king when it comes to domestic energy efficiency
Q&A: Whaling
Posted: 78 days, 20 hours ago	[BBC]
What is being negotiated at the whaling meeting?
Hayward's stand-in heckled at London oil meeting (AP)
Posted: 78 days, 20 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Environment)]
AP - The owner of the broken Deepwater Horizon rig spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico criticized President Barack Obama's six-month ban on deepwater drilling and a BP executive was heckled Tuesday at a major oil conference.
Climate credibility under review
Posted: 78 days, 21 hours ago	[BBC]
Most climate experts who publish papers on the topic support the idea of human-induced climate change, a study suggests.
Gulf rig owner criticizes Obama's drilling halt (AP)
Posted: 78 days, 21 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Environment)]
AP - The owner of the broken Deepwater Horizon rig that is spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico has criticized the U.S. government's six-month ban on deepwater drilling in the area.
Loss of bees a blow to UK economy
Posted: 78 days, 21 hours ago	[BBC]
If bees and other pollinators were to disappear completely, the cost to the UK could be up to £440m per year, say scientists.
Heavy rains in south China trigger dyke threat (Reuters)
Posted: 78 days, 21 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Weather)]
Reuters - A flooded river in south China has breached a dyke and threatens 145,000 residents, as heavy rains which have killed almost 200 people so far batter much of the region, state media reported on Tuesday.
Oil firms challenge US drilling freeze (AFP)
Posted: 78 days, 22 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Environment)]
AFP - A US judge was to decide as early as Tuesday whether to lift a six-month freeze on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, which officials here complain is strangling an economy already devastated by the massive oil spill.
150,000 marooned by Bangladesh floods (AFP)
Posted: 78 days, 22 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Weather)]
AFP - At least 150,000 people have been marooned and thousands of hectares of crops destroyed by floods after weeks of heavy rain in Bangladesh's northeast, an official said Tuesday.
Celia upgraded to Category Two hurricane (AFP)
Posted: 78 days, 22 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Weather)]
AFP - Hurricane Celia, the first of the 2010 Pacific season, was upgraded late Monday to a Category Two storm as it churned off the the southeastern Mexican coast, the US-based National Hurricane Center said.
Gulf Coast residents unsure if claims are taxed (AP)
Posted: 78 days, 22 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Environment)]
AP - Out-of-work Gulf Coast shrimper Todd Pellegal spent his first $2,500 check from BP quickly, paying off bills and buying groceries for his family.
Judge hears request to end drilling moratorium (AP)
Posted: 78 days, 23 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Environment)]
AP - As a federal judge mulls whether to lift a six-month moratorium on new deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, the administrator of a $20 billion fund to compensate oil spill victims pledged Monday to speed payment of claims.
Obama Faces Oil-Spill Crisis, Juggles Long-Term Agenda (Time.com)
Posted: 78 days, 23 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Environment)]
Time.com - When the oil leak is plugged, Republicans just might look back and feel they overpicked a fight that distracted them from the real wars at hand
Australia probes U.S. biodiesel dumping
Posted: 78 days, 23 hours ago	[Reuters]
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia is investigating complaints of U.S. dumping of biodiesel on the domestic market, the nation's customs agency said on Tuesday, a move that could see Canberra follow Europe in imposing anti-dumping duties.
39 killed, 1,000 missing in Brazil floods (AFP)
Posted: 78 days, 23 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Weather)]
AFP - Floods after days of driving rain have killed at least 39 people in northeastern Brazil, and left 1,000 unaccounted for and another 100,000 people homeless, authorities said.
Oil firms challenge U.S. deepwater drilling ban (Reuters)
Posted: 79 days ago	[Yahoo! News (Environment)]
Reuters - Oil services companies were waiting on Tuesday to see if their legal bid would succeed in overturning a six-month ban on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico as more fishing areas were closed in response to the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
Oil firms challenge U.S. deepwater drilling ban
Posted: 79 days ago	[Reuters]
NEW ORLEANS/LAFITTE, Louisiana (Reuters) - Oil services companies were waiting on Tuesday to see if their legal bid would succeed in overturning a six-month ban on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico as more fishing areas were closed in response to the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
Celia is upgraded to Category 2 hurricane (AP)
Posted: 79 days, 2 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Weather)]
AP - Hurricane Celia grew stronger Monday evening in the East Pacific Ocean and was upgraded to a Category 2.
Hurricane Celia spins further away from Mexico
Posted: 79 days, 2 hours ago	[Reuters]
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Hurricane Celia, the first hurricane of the 2010 Pacific season, continued on a westward path away from Mexico but grew in strength on Monday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
Poll Finds Deep Concern About Energy and Economy
Posted: 79 days, 3 hours ago	[NY Times Environment]
Respondents to a New York Times/CBS News poll believed President Obama did not have a clear plan to create jobs and were impatient with his response to the Gulf of Mexico spill.
Montana city mops up from tornado that hit arena (AP)
Posted: 79 days, 3 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Weather)]
AP - Survivors of a tornado that tore into Montana's largest indoor arena and leveled several commercial buildings returned to a scene of devastation Monday — awe-struck that a twister so destructive caused no major injuries.
Some oil spill events on Monday, June 21, 2010 (AP)
Posted: 79 days, 5 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Environment)]
AP - A summary of events on Monday, June 21, Day 62 of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that began with the April 20 explosion and fire on the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, owned by Transocean Ltd. and leased by BP PLC, which is in charge of cleanup and containment. The blast killed 11 workers. Since then, oil has been pouring into the Gulf from a blown-out undersea well.
1,000 missing in Brazil floods (AFP)
Posted: 79 days, 5 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Weather)]
AFP - More than 1,000 people are missing after days of heavy rain and flooding, the governor of Brazil's northeastern Alagoas state said, voicing fear that the death toll of 35 could skyrocket.
Oil spill volunteers looking for way to help (AP)
Posted: 79 days, 5 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Environment)]
AP - Debbie Gunnoe wanted to work as a volunteer cleaning tar balls and oil from the sugar white beaches of Florida Panhandle that she loves so much, but she's been rebuffed.
Head of spill victims fund pledges fast payments (AP)
Posted: 79 days, 5 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Environment)]
AP - The administrator of a $20 billion fund to compensate Gulf oil spill victims pledged Monday to speed payment of claims as a federal judge considered whether to lift a six-month moratorium on new deepwater drilling.
Gov't bills BP, others $51.4M for spill effort (AP)
Posted: 79 days, 6 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Environment)]
AP - The Obama administration has sent another multimillion-dollar bill to BP and other parties being held responsible for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Answers From the Investigative Team
Posted: 79 days, 6 hours ago	[NY Times Environment]
Following are responses from David Barstow, one of the reporters who examined the lax oversight of the oil rig's blowout preventer, to reader questions.
Transcript of Adm. Thad Allen's press briefing Monday on the BP oil leak
Posted: 79 days, 6 hours ago	[Miami Herald]
This is the transcript of Adm. Thad Allen's breifing with reporters for Monday, june 21, 2010, on the BP Deepwater Horizon oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. The transcript was provided by the Deepwater Horizon Incident Joint Information Center. Allen was in New Orleans.
Tracking trees
Posted: 79 days, 6 hours ago	[BBC]
Scientists take to the skies in CO2 absorption study
A Prairie Fourth of July
Posted: 79 days, 6 hours ago	[National Park Service]
Homestead National Monument of America - Homestead National Monument of America will kick off the Fourth of July weekend with a special heritage campfire program remembering the celebrations that took place on the prairie honoring our nation’s independence. Join Historian Blake Bell on July 3, 2010 at 7 p.m. at the monument’s Education Center as he explores the celebrations, parades, and festivities that were common to prairie towns in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
For Life Thriving on Gulf of Mexico’s Seabed, Many Unknowns
Posted: 79 days, 6 hours ago	[NY Times Environment]
Researchers are deeply concerned about what the BP oil spill means for the creatures flourishing in the dark, frigid ecosystems known as cold seeps.
States want BP to pay for oil spill loss (Reuters)
Posted: 79 days, 7 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Environment)]
Reuters - Eleven East Coast U.S. states have told BP they will hold it responsible for any losses caused by its still-growing oil spill in the Gulf, Connecticut's attorney general said on Monday.
Seventh-graders find a cave on Mars (Y! Green)
Posted: 79 days, 7 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Environment)]
Y! Green - Sixteen students in Dennis Mitchell's seventh-grade science class at Evergreen Middle School in Cottonwood, Calif., have discovered a cave on Mars — only the second one to be found in the region, according to ASU NewsÂ of Arizona State University.
Feinberg Says Faster Claim Payment Is Needed
Posted: 79 days, 7 hours ago	[NY Times Environment]
Kenneth R. Feinberg, the newly appointed director of the fund set up to help victims in the gulf region, said that he would work to make payouts faster.
Help Count Deer at Homestead on June 26
Posted: 79 days, 7 hours ago	[National Park Service]
Homestead National Monument of America - Homestead National Monument of America will be conducting its monthly deer survey on Saturday, June 26, 2010 at 9:30 a.m. Please come and help the monument count deer. No experience is needed; just show up at the Education Center for a 9:30 a.m. orientation.
Hurricane Celia gathers strength far off Mexican coast (AFP)
Posted: 79 days, 7 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Weather)]
AFP - Hurricane Celia, the first of the 2010 Pacific season, gained strength Monday off the southeastern Mexican coast, the US-based National Hurricane Center said.
AGs seek assurances BP would pay East Coast claims (AP)
Posted: 79 days, 8 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Environment)]
AP - Attorneys general in 11 Atlantic Coast states asked BP PLC for assurances that legitimate claims from their residents will be paid if oil from the massive Gulf of Mexico spill reaches their shores.
Court overturns Monsanto seed ban
Posted: 79 days, 8 hours ago	[BBC]
The US Supreme Court has overturned a ruling barring Monsanto from selling genetically modified seeds until they can be tested.
Regulators Failed to Address Risks in Oil Rig Fail-Safe Device
Posted: 79 days, 8 hours ago	[NY Times Environment]
The federal agency charged with regulating offshore drilling repeatedly declined to act on advice on how it could minimize the risk of a failure of the device, an examination found.
Democratic ad hammers GOP on oil spill (AP)
Posted: 79 days, 8 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Environment)]
AP - The Democratic National Committee has unveiled a new television ad that calls Republicans oil company loyalists who would rather apologize to BP than hold it accountable for the massive spill in the Gulf.
7th-graders discover mysterious cave on Mars
Posted: 79 days, 8 hours ago	[MSNBC Space]
Space.com: A group of seventh-graders in California has discovered a mysterious cave on Mars as part of a research project to study images taken by a NASA spacecraft orbiting the red planet. Mars - NASA - Space.com - Space - Technology
Under Pressure, Commission Discusses Lifting Whaling Ban
Posted: 79 days, 8 hours ago	[NY Times Environment]
Japan, Norway and Iceland have pressed the International Whaling Commission to lift a moratorium on commercial whaling that took effect in 1986.
Scenarios: Climate bill backers enter critical week
Posted: 79 days, 8 hours ago	[Reuters]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With time running out for the U.S. Senate to debate complicated and controversial climate change legislation, key players will huddle this week to try to come up with a plan for passing an energy/environment bill this year.
East Coast states want BP to pay for oil spill loss (Reuters)
Posted: 79 days, 8 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Environment)]
Reuters - Eleven East Coast U.S. states have told BP they will hold it responsible for any losses caused by its still-growing oil spill in the Gulf, Connecticut's attorney general said on Monday.
Oil spill has brides canceling beach weddings (AP)
Posted: 79 days, 9 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Environment)]
AP - The bride wore white, her bridesmaids watermelon pink. The groom dressed in khaki pants and a casual white shirt. And all went barefoot despite the risk of stepping on tar balls.
7th-Graders Discover Mysterious Cave on Mars (SPACE.com)
Posted: 79 days, 9 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Space)]
SPACE.com - A group of seventh-graders in California has discovered a mysterious cave on Mars as part of a research project to study images taken by a NASA spacecraft orbiting the red planet.
Summer Junior Ranger Days
Posted: 79 days, 9 hours ago	[National Park Service]
Roger Williams National Memorial - Hey kids! On Saturday, June 26th, from 2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Roger Williams National Memorial, located at 282 North Main Street in Providence, will kick off its 2010 Summer Junior Ranger Days series, featuring a performance by internationally-known storyteller, Len Cabral, at 6:00 p.m.
Activities planned for commemoration of 406 years on Saint Croix Island
Posted: 79 days, 9 hours ago	[National Park Service]
Saint Croix Island International Historic Site - Rangers at Saint Croix Island International Historic Site will commemorate 406 years since Pierre Dugua Sieur de Mons founded a French settlement on the island. Join them for day long activities.
Ask the Investigative Reporters
Posted: 79 days, 9 hours ago	[NY Times Environment]
Today, New York Times reporters will answer readers' questions about their article on the decisions that led to and followed the failure of the blowout preventer on the Deepwater Horizon rig.
Small Creatures Will Be Oil Spill's Biggest Victims (LiveScience.com)
Posted: 79 days, 9 hours ago	[Yahoo! News (Environment)]
LiveScience.com - Over the last two months, the BP oil leak has unleashed all manner of havoc on the ecosystem in the Gulf of Mexico. But while sad pictures of large-eyed, oil coated birds make these animals the most visible victims of the oil leak, smaller ocean creatures will bear the brunt of the damage, scientists say.