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Environmental
News: 2007-2011
Agriculture and Food
Air and Water
Animals
Climate Change/Energy
Consumer Choices
Preservation and Conservation
Sustainable Development
US Policy
Environmental Issues: 2004-2006
Agriculture and Food
2011
Where's the Beef: U.S. beef consumption in decline
UN warns 25 pct of world land highly degraded
Annan calls global food crisis a moral failing
Soda Bans in Schools Have Limited Impact
The Birth Control Solution
Study links fungus to bat-killing disease
In Famine, Vouchers Can Be Tickets to Survival
Food Blooms in the Desert
Farmers Facing Loss of Subsidy May Get New One
Foreign Insects, Diseases Got Into US
When the Uprooted Put Down Roots
The Decline of the Plastic Bag: Waste-Free School Lunches
Target commits to 100% sustainable, traceable fish by 2015
June Was Warmer and Drier Than Normal
Bad Food? Tax It, and Subsidize Vegetables
Eco-friendly Fish Farming (video)
When
Food Kills
Special report: Scientists race to avoid climate change harvest
E. Coli: Don’t Blame the Sprouts!
Chemicals in Farm Runoff Rattle States on the Mississippi
Our Phone Calls May Be Killing the Bees
Preventing Cruelty on the Farm
The Future of Cafeteria Food
Study: Global warming reduced corn, wheat harvests
Study ranks food pathogens by cost to society
Who Protects the Animals?
High
Prices Sow Seeds of Erosion
Future farm: a sunless, rainless room indoors
Rush to Use Crops as Fuel Raises Food Prices and Hunger Fears
Hunger touches more than 1.7 million in Los Angeles County
Genetically modified crops get boost over organics with recent USDA
rulings
The global food crunch
Sustainable Farming Can Feed the World?
A Hybrid Path to Feeding 9 Billion on a Still-Green Planet
Shifting spring: Arctic plankton blooming up to 50 days earlier now
The Safest Organic Pest Repellent Ever?
UN: Food prices hit record high in February
Don’t End Agricultural Subsidies, Fix Them
Gates Foundation works to boost food production
Shoppers wary of GM foods find they're everywhere
How to Make Oatmeal . . . Wrong
Local,
Organic Milk: Nice Idea, but Try Making a Profit
Is the World Producing Enough Food?
Why Biofuels Help Push Up World Food Prices
Southwestern Water: Going, Going, Gone?
For India’s Farmers, a Bare-Bones Drip System
As India Thrives, Its People Remain Hungry
US corn reserves hit lowest level in 15 years
U.N. Food Agency Issues Warning on China Drought
Droughts, Floods and Food
Wal-Mart Takes a Healthy Turn
Report targets waste, inefficiency in agricultural water use
2010
2009
2008
2007
Air and Water
2011
Toward Healthier Air
The Race to Greener Bottles Could Be Long
Global Warming: It's Not Just Carbon Dioxide
Freshwater Use by U.S. Power Plants: Electricity’s Thirst for a Precious
Resource
Lead From Old U.S. Batteries Sent to Mexico Raises Risks
E.P.A. Implicates Fracking in Pollution
Obama proposes CO2 regulations
The energy, and expense, of bringing water to the Southland
Does government regulation really kill jobs? Economists say overall
effect minimal.
EPA’s secret list shows pollution unchecked
Tons of L.A. River trash to be captured before hitting the sea
Stone-Washed Blue Jeans (Minus the Washed)
In Tucson, Saving the Bath Water Too
Increased monitoring finds more water pollution in California
Database: outdoor air pollution in cities
Drinking Water Quality Report - Southern California
California says yes to recycled water
Panel: Problems with
oceans multiplying, worsening
Thick snowpack holds water — and potential peril
Fuel-efficient vehicles could save $7.2 billion annually in California
health costs
President Obama seeks to extend Clean Water Act protections
Climate change may not dramatically affect California's precipitation or
runoff
Scientists: Gulf health nearly at pre-spill level
Chemicals Were Injected Into Wells, Report Says
Scientists find superbugs in Delhi drinking water
Regulation Lax
as Gas Wells’ Tainted Water Hits Rivers
Proposed California Rainwater Capture Act
California Enacts Law to Encourage Stormwater Reuse
Koch brothers now at heart of GOP power
Clean
Air Under Siege
EPA reverses Bush-era water safety standards, will regulate contaminants
2010
2009
2008
2007
Animals
2011
Use of Chimps Halted in New U.S.-Funded Research
Court ruling keeps Yellowstone grizzlies on 'threatened' list
Chimps’ Days in Labs May Be Dwindling
Polar bears and greenhouse gases: Can one live with the other?
Critters moving away from global warming faster
Frog dissections go virtual at California school
Chinese dog eaters and dog lovers spar over animal rights
Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others
Chickens Feel Empathy, Why Can't We?
Doctors to Bring Lawsuit Against Medical Schools for Animal Abuse
How Species Save Our Lives
Imperiled Birds on a Warming Planet
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2009
2008
2007
Climate Change/Energy
2011
Court Upholds Europe's Plan to Charge Airlines for Carbon Emissions
Environmentalists Get Down to Earth
Russia slams Kyoto Protocol
As Permafrost Thaws, Scientists Study the Risks
Climate Justice for All
Canada first nation to pull out of Kyoto protocol
Five things to know about the Durban climate agreement
Climate Talks in Durban Yield Limited Agreement
Advocacy group's extreme weather map brings climate change home
At Climate Talks, a Familiar Standoff Between U.S. and China
Spreading the global warming gospel
Ex-UN climate chief to AP: talks are rudderless
An unfair fight for renewable energies
Carbon Emissions Show Biggest Jump Ever Recorded
A global cooling to the U.S. position on climate change
This Is a Big Deal
Illinois sequestration project is first in U.S. for man-made CO2
UN conference to deal with carbon reductions
Renewable power trumps fossil fuels for first time
Climate impasse could kill carbon offset investment
Stefan Priesner: tackle climate change and boost development with
'win-win' solutions
Himalayan nations agree on climate adaptation plan
Dutch fall out of love with windmills
Greenhouse gases, water vapor and you
U.N. Panel Finds Climate Change Behind Some Extreme Weather Events
Gasoline prices remain at record highs for this time of year
NOAA greenhouse gas index climbs
Annan calls global food crisis a moral failing
Greenhouse gases climbing, federal report finds
Australia Passes Carbon Tax
Tallying the health costs of climate change
The Dark Side of the ‘Green’ City
An Outmoded Strategy
Cheap Gas Is a Trap
New Technologies Redraw the World’s Energy Picture
Here Comes the Sun
Natural Gas a Blessing
Biggest jump ever seen in global warming gases
China to slow solar output boom as price slips
Invitation to a Dialogue: Renewable Energy
Future of Solar and Wind Power May Hinge on Federal Aid
Skeptic finds he now agrees global warming is real
Oil’s new world order
Obama administration announces desert 'solar energy zones'
The Case Against Global-Warming Skepticism
China slams U.S. over solar complaint
California approves carbon market rules
Dark clouds threaten solar makers' future
Where Did Global Warming Go?
Unlike Solyndra, other California solar projects appear on track
Wind, solar farm finance at record in Q3, report says
Proposed Keystone XL oil project draws a divisive line
A U.S.-Backed Geothermal Plant in Nevada Struggles
The American 'allergy' to global warming: Why?
Al Gore and the search for the climate change swing vote.
Obama green-tech program that backed Solyndra struggles to create jobs
Say yes to Canadian oil sands
On Warming and U.S. Hurricane Strikes
Number of
Green Jobs Fails to Live Up to Promises
Invitation to a Dialogue: Raise the Gas Tax
The Clear Case for the Gas Tax
Los Angeles solar power rebates slashed 32%
British PM praises Australia's carbon plan: report
Has warming put 'Dirty Dozen' pollutants back in the saddle?
Mozambique sends first biofuel export to German airliner
Global warming: study finds natural shields being weakened
Utility Shelves Ambitious Plan to Limit Carbon
Why raising the federal gas tax is smart
The Gas
Is Greener
The
Earth Is Full
Gov.
Christie Abandons a Good Idea
NJ plans to pull out of greenhouse gas initiative
A Tree
Hugger, With a Twist
Japanese Officials Ignored or Concealed Dangers
Arctic Council to address role of soot in global warming
Scientists’ Report Stresses Urgency of Limiting Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Climate change and the flood this time
UN: Renewable energy key in climate change fight
US ranks 17 as clean tech producer, China is No. 2
The
Return of ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’
Japan to Halt 3 Nuclear Reactors Over Quake Fears
Climate change: Arctic ice melting faster, sea level to rise more,
report says
Clean-tech venture capital jumps 54% in first quarter 2011
Jonah Goldberg: Cooling on global warming
Hold the accolades on China’s ‘green leap forward’
Arctic's Icy Coastlines Retreat as Planet Warms
Gov. Brown signs law requiring 33% of energy be renewable by 2020
Oregon cowboy town
promotes solar energy
Wind energy: headed for a slowdown?
Unrecycled new light bulbs release mercury into the environment
Amendment that says climate change is occurring fails in House
Ozone layer faces record loss over Arctic
Kicking the tires on Obama’s energy speech
U.S. drops to 3rd in clean-energy investment: Pew
California's Clean Energy
Germany Set
to Abandon Nuclear Power for Good
California's sweeping plan to curb greenhouse gas pollution on hold
USDA invests
$60M in 3 new research projects on effects of climate change on crops
and forests
Japan Extended Reactor’s Life, Despite Warning
5 myths about nuclear energy
Nuclear Power: Costs and Risks
U.S. Security Depends on Energy Innovation
Gas Drilling Near Yellowstone: Danger of Another Blowout?
Coastal cities prepare for rising sea levels
Giant Kites Help Shipping Company Cut Carbon
Stopping coal at the coast
Special Report: The California carbon rush
Scientists connect global warming to extreme rain
Zambia is burning
Climate change hits Alaska's national parks
Topsy-Turvy Weather: U.S. Is Frigid, Arctic Balmy
Warming effect of melting ice fields stronger, report finds
Climate Change Assumptions Need Tinkering?
Buy Chinese
Special
Report: With solar power, it's Green vs. Green
In Ventura, a retreat in the face of a rising sea
2010
2009
2008
2007
Consumer Choices
Good Minus God
Cereal? Cookies? Oh, What’s the Diff?
Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts.
Five steps from Martha Stewart toward (green) living
Republicans scrap 'compostable' utensils in House cafeterias
No Face,
but Plants Like Life Too
David Brooks’s Theory of Human Nature
2010
Preservation and Conservation
2011
Prime Indonesian jungle to be cleared for palm oil
With Deaths of Forests, a Loss of Key Climate Protectors
Obama Admin Objects to Alaska Oil and Gas Development Bill
Huge new boreal forest preserve in Manitoba
Obama lukewarm on conservation
Alien Giant Tortoise Helps Restore Ecosystem
Colorado River parks dammed, report finds
G.O.P. Push in States to Deregulate Environment
Twisted Tropics: Growth of Vines Imperils Ecosystem
2010
2009
2008
2007
Sustainable Development
2011
Activists celebrate closing of polluting plant near L.A.
school
War-torn Colombian valley now produces butterflies
Renewable power trumps fossil fuels for first time
Revenge of the internal combustion engine
How Wal-Mart won over a Sierra Club president
The energy, and expense, of bringing water to the
Southland
Does government regulation really kill jobs? Economists
say overall effect minimal.
Catholic condom ban not causing population boom: U.N.
U.N. wants better life for world of 7 billion
Seven Billion People
The instability of inequality
Banks turn to demolition of foreclosed properties to
ease housing-market pressures
Boeing 787 Dreamliner the first of a new generation of
aircraft
A Debate Arises on Job Creation and Environment
To Nullify Lead, Add a Bunch of Fish Bones
Trash trucks fueled by 'trash gas': a growing trend
Plan for Hydroelectric Dam in Patagonia Outrages
Chileans
Obama Admin Objects to Alaska Oil and Gas Development
Bill
An Unlikely Power Duo Emerges in the Global Fight
Against Climate Change
Civil Society in India Having an Impact
Sport fish contaminated along California's urban
coastline
$25,000, 350-mile-per-charge electric car could be
reality by 2017, DOE says
General Mills, Procter & Gamble pressured to trim
packaging
Drivers Save Money With New Green GPS Technology
Supplies Squeezed, Rare Earth Prices Surge
FHA and Fannie Mae offer loans for home energy
improvements
A Second Life for the Electric Car Battery
Blue Plains upgrade could produce valuable farm
fertilizer, but critics are wary
Fast Train to Nowhere
Cloud computing and Internet use suck energy, emit CO2,
says Greenpeace
Biodegradable plastics: Plant symbol chosen as icon
As the Mountaintops Fall, a Coal Town Vanishes
In India, a cautionary tale of private-sector
urbanization
Green Development? Not in My (Liberal) Backyard
Removing Barriers to Green Building
Grand dream loses sheen in glare of daylight
China caps emissions for rare earth miners
Solar Energy Used to Extract Oil
Lawsuit alleges solar projects would harm sacred Native
American sites
Ecuador Judge Orders Chevron to Pay $9 Billion
Soaking Up the Sun to Squeeze Bills to Zero
2010
2009
2008
2007
US Policy
2011
The Limits of Empathy
Congress: Stop Subsidizing Obesity
EPA budget cuts put states in bind
Can natural gas fuel the U.S.?
US
Needs a Real Energy Policy
In mortgage crisis, a lesson from Iowa farms
Interior Dept. strikes deal to clear backlog on endangered species
listings
Auto pollution: California's carbon curbs upheld by appeals court
The
Court and Global Warming
2010
2009
2008
2007
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