- Widespread droughts send world food prices soaring
- Food prices jump will hit poor, World Bank warns
- Food shortages could force world into vegetarianism, warn scientists--"Water scarcity's effect on food production means radical steps will be needed to feed population expected to reach 9bn by 2050."
- Mitt Romney Energy Plan: More Oil & Natural Gas Production On Federal Lands
- A Libyan's Plea to the S.E.C.--"Oil-industry lobbyists are trying to undermine transparency measures in America and Europe that could help prevent future tyrants, like the Libyan dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi, from emerging." NYT
- How Did Coal-Rich India End Up With Power Blackouts?--"World Bank policies had a lot to do with it. [...] For decades, the World Bank provided inducements to the government of India to expand its exploitation of coal. The bank also pushed privatization of the power sector and expansion of strip mining.
- Venezuela: Chavez orders Amuay refinery blast probe--Sabotage?
- World's largest oil producer falls victim to 30K workstation attack--Definitely sabotage.
- Up to 13% of the Earth's Surface Has Recently Reached 'Extreme Heat'
- The Drought Is So Severe, You Can See Its Toll on the Mississippi From Space
- In a surprise, CO2 emissions fall to 20-year low in U.S.
- Why Did the Mayan Civilization Collapse? Deforestation and Climate Change
- Onion Weather Center: Arizona Heatwave Forces Temporary Suspension Of Racial Profiling
- Rate of Arctic summer sea ice loss is 50% higher than predicted
- Arctic sea ice set to hit record low--And that it has.
- The day the world went mad--"As record sea ice melt scarcely makes the news while the third runway grabs headlines, is there a form of reactive denial at work?"
- Interpol issues wanted notice for 'Whale Wars' star
- Canada: Feds drop environmental assessment of 492 projects--"Stephen Harper's Conservative government has washed its hands of environmental assessments of the nearly 500 projects in B.C. as a result of a revised Canadian Environmental Assessment Act."
- Papua New Guinea's seabed to be mined for gold and copper--"Government approves world's first commercial deep-sea mining project despite vehement objections over threat to marine life."
- Brazilian Court Halts Belo Monte Dam--" The court ruled that the Brazilian Constitution and International Labour Organization Convention 169, to which Brazil is a party, require that Congress can only authorize the use of water resources for hydroelectric projects after an independent assessment of environmental impacts and subsequent consultations with affected indigenous peoples. "
- Hawaii is officially the 1st state to ban plastic bags
- Analysts Conclude Fracking Wastewater Poses Substantial Risk to Drinking Water
- 'Fracking' for Natural Gas Is Linked With Earthquakes
- The Facts Behind the Frack: Scientists weigh in on the hydraulic fracturing debate
- The impact of fracking: Great Barrier Grief
- Pic: Fracking bought a little of this road--Suuuuure it did.
- Report: Pacific Ocean Has 100 Times More Plastic Particles In It Than '70s
- Gulf seafood deformities alarm scientists--"Eyeless shrimp and fish with lesions are becoming common, with BP oil pollution believed to be the likely cause."
- Court throws out new air pollution rules--"The decision Tuesday is a blow for several states, the Obama administration and environmental groups, which had sought to prevent 'upwind states' from emitting possibly unhealthy levels of contaminants across state borders, a requirement known as the 'good neighbor' policy."
- Urban wind flows deposit pollutants in repetitive patterns
- Parting Shot: Fan Made 'Captain Planet' Trailer Will Make You Think Twice About Dropping That Can On The Floor
- 'Like a bad Hollywood cop movie': Asia's biggest wildlife traffickers mostly untouchable
- Peru police seize thousands of dried seahorses--"Police in Peru have seized more than 16,000 dried seahorses which were to be exported illegally to Asian countries."
- Yao Ming support from friends in 'high' places
- Protected sea lions gorge on threatened salmon
- Ecology drones track endangered wildlife--"Unmanned aerial vehicles are being put to use to monitor wildlife, spot poachers, and chart forest loss."
- Assuming We Develop the Capability, Should We Bring Back Extinct Species?
- Jurassic Park experiment a success after 500 million-year bacteria bought back to life
- Scientists discover beautiful new insect species after stumbling upon photos on Flickr
- Elephants Took 24 Million Generations to Evolve From Mouse-Size
- Ancient seagrass: 'Oldest living thing on earth' discovered in Mediterranean Sea
- 'SpongeBob' Mushroom Discovered in the Forests of Borneo
- Microscopic marvels star in movies
- Female Sharks Can Reproduce Alone
- Scientists spin first artificial web--In other news, Peter Parker to file suit.
