Category Archives: Environment

Snow, sleet target Midwest and Northeast

By doris | Published: January 20, 2012

Full Story at usNews.msnbc.msn.com Updated at 3:30 p.m. ET: Snow was falling heavily by midafternoon in Chicago as a winter storm spread east, NBCChicago.com reported. Though no significant delays were reported, airlines at O’Hare Airport canceled more than 300 flights, NBCChicago.com said. At Midway Airport, Southwest Airlines canceled all 70 of its flights scheduled between [...]

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Gutsy wrangler, huge horse save boy from charging grizzly

By doris | Published: January 14, 2012

Full Story at spodesman.com Grizzlies are high profile this year. A lingering winter and late berry crop kept bears in proximity to humans longer than normal, perhaps contributing to a stream of headlines about grizzlies killing people and people killing grizzlies. Meanwhile, a young lady on a big horse charged out of the pack of [...]

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Authorities Find Body Believed to Be Mt. Rainier Shooting Suspect

By doris | Published: January 2, 2012

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com The man suspected of killing a ranger at Mount Rainier National Park in Washington State is believed to have been found dead, according to police. Authorities located a body face-down in the snow without any identification, but believe it to be Benjamin Colton Barnes, 24, the sole suspect in Sunday’s shooting, [...]

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Thousands of birds make crash landing in Utah

By doris | Published: December 14, 2011

Full Story at USNews.msnbc.msn.com Thousands of birds died on impact after apparently mistaking a Wal-Mart parking lot and other areas of southern Utah for bodies of water and plummeting to the ground in what one wildlife expert called the worst downing she’s ever seen. Crews went to work cleaning up the dead birds and rescuing [...]

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German satellite to fall to Earth this weekend

By doris | Published: October 22, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com A defunct German satellite is expected to fall to Earth this weekend, with experts predicting that up to 30 big pieces of the junked spacecraft could hit the planet. But exactly when and where the satellite will fall remains a mystery. The 2.7-ton Roentgen Satellite, or ROSAT, will likely plummet to [...]

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Vegas tries to kick its water addiction

By doris | Published: September 4, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Las Vegas (CNN) — At first glance, it’s pretty easy to say Las Vegas has an unhealthy water fetish. There’s the 22-million-gallon Bellagio fountain, which rockets dancing cylinders of well water 500 feet into the air to the tune of “God Bless the USA.” There’s the liquid volcano at The Mirage, [...]

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5 breakthroughs that will make solar power cheaper than coal

By doris | Published: August 12, 2011

Full Story at MNN.com It’s a little reassuring that progress marches forward, despite our nation’s best efforts to stop it. Solar in particular appears to be growing in leaps and bounds due in large part to a 60 percent drop in price per kW (kilowatt) production in just the past three years. In many regions [...]

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BP wants to end future loss claims in Gulf spill

By doris | Published: July 9, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW ORLEANS — BP is arguing that victims of last year’s Gulf oil spill should not be paid any more claims for future losses because the areas affected by the spill have recovered and the economy is improving. The British oil company makes its case in a 29-page document filed with [...]

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Exxon Mobil not upfront on spill, Montana says

By doris | Published: July 6, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com LAUREL, Montana — Exxon Mobil came under fire on Wednesday from Gov. Brian Schweitzer, who said the oil giant had assured Montana that any spill on the Yellowstone River could be shut off in a few minutes. Instead it took at least 48 minutes for that to happen when a pipeline [...]

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Build safer nuclear plants? We have the power

By doris | Published: July 4, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com In the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster in March, the appetite for new nuclear power plants slipped to post-Chernobyl lows. Regulators from Italy to Switzerland to Texas moved to stop pending nuclear-power projects, and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) began to re-evaluate the safety of all domestic plants. Yet nuclear [...]

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8 secrets about Disneyland

By doris | Published: July 2, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com From how to score a cocktail to where to scatter grandma’s ashes, this is your ticket to the real Magic Kingdom. 1. There are dead bodies in the Haunted Mansion The Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland is one of the scariest places in the park, but not for the reasons you’d [...]

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Back-up generators put to use at Nebraska nuclear plant

By doris | Published: June 27, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A nuclear power plant in Nebraska, which is being threatened by rising floodwaters, switched to back-up generators for a time after a water-filled berm protecting the site collapsed Sunday, a statement from the plant said. “As a precaution, per plant procedure, the operators started the diesel generators and temporarily [...]

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Japan scientist synthesizes meat from human feces

By doris | Published: June 17, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com Mitsuyuki Ikeda, a researcher from the Okayama Laboratory, has developed steaks based on proteins from human excrement. Tokyo Sewage approached the scientist because of an overabundance of sewage mud. They asked him to explore the possible uses of the sewage and Ikeda found that the mud contained a great deal of [...]

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Easy vegetables to grow

By doris | Published: May 27, 2011

Full Story at MNN.com Planting a garden doesn’t have to be a huge undertaking. But the fear of failure keeps many a gardener-wannabe from spending time and energy on planting backyard crops. Knowing the easy vegetables to grow for your region — in addition to when and where to plant them — is the best [...]

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La. spillway to be opened; 25,000 people could be in harm’s way of floods

By doris | Published: May 14, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com LAKE PROVIDENCE, La. — Army engineers prepared Saturday to slowly open the gates of an emergency spillway along the rising Mississippi River, diverting floodwaters from Baton Rouge and New Orleans, yet inundating homes and farms in parts of Louisiana’s populated Cajun country. About 25,000 people and 11,000 structures could be in [...]

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Flooding of Southern Farms Poised to Wreak Havoc on Economy

By doris | Published: May 10, 2011

Full Story at FoxNews.com The historic flooding in the South is poised to wreak havoc on the economy at multiple levels, likely putting local farmhands out of work while contributing to the nationwide rise in food prices. As the Mississippi River crests and the flooding spreads to Mississippi and Louisiana, the vital grain crops in [...]

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Memphis eyes crest; New Orleans gets some flood help

By doris | Published: May 9, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com The Army Corps of Engineers began opening the Bonnet Carre spillway 28 miles north of New Orleans Monday morning to divert part of the river flow to Lake Pontchartrain. Opening the spillway has no impact on homes or businesses.

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South fears loss of national interest in twister recovery

By doris | Published: May 7, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com HARVEST, Ala. — The Rev. Michael Katschke is worried, but not about running out of the food, diapers and other supplies he hands out to tornado victims at the Crosswinds United Methodist Church in northern Alabama. Katschke is worried about the rest of the country just moving on. “They’re going to [...]

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Twister outbreak is second deadliest in US history

By doris | Published: April 30, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The death toll from this week’s storms rose to 343 Saturday, according to an NBC News count, making the tornado outbreak the second deadliest in U.S. history. That number could rise with hundreds of people apparently still missing following the disaster. In Tuscaloosa, Ala., alone, up to 446 [...]

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Austrian authorities reveal find of buried treasure

By doris | Published: April 23, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com VIENNA – A man turning dirt in his back yard stumbled onto buried treasure — hundreds of pieces of centuries-old jewelry and other precious objects that Austrian authorities described Friday as a fairy-tale find. Austria’s department in charge of national antiquities said the trove consists of more than 200 rings, brooches, [...]

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