Provides the latest RSS feeds for Environment News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Houston Mirror.com http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/cat/9d3b36ac41649d93/ en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 23:18:11 -0400 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:18:11 -0400 30 STOCKHOLM - Environmental pressure group Greenpeace on Tuesday said it flew a paraglider over a nuclear reactor building in south-western Sweden and dropped an item upon it from the air to show how vulnerable the facilities ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214676645/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 20:35:28 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214676645/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 VOA correspondent Greg Flakus is at the site of the tornado damage in Moore, Oklahoma. He spoke with English broadcaster David Byrd Tuesday afternoon about what he is ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214675425/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 19:37:04 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214675425/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 - The wake of the global financial crisis, as many national governments in Europe cut back on services to citizens and used public money to rescue banks, taught many people a valuable ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214675364/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 19:26:34 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214675364/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Surrey RCMP are looking for a woman who allegedly assaulted an animal-rights protester at the Cloverdale Rodeo. The female victim said the woman punched and kicked her, and pulled her hair, after a ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214675426/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 19:15:29 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214675426/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Solutions' proprietary enzymatic method for the efficient capture of carbon dioxide from power plants, oil production operations and other large sources of emissions will continue to benefit from Codexis' directed enzyme evolution technology and enzyme production capabilities. ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214674065/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 18:05:22 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214674065/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Western Wind Energy Corp. -- (the "Company" or "Western Wind") (TSX Venture Exchange -- "WND") (OTCQX -- "WNDEF") today announced that WWE Equity Holdings Inc., an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners L.P., has completed its compulsory acquisition of the outstanding common shares ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214671258/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 17:08:17 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214671258/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Today in Oregon, voters are deciding whether to raise their own taxes to make up for lost timber payments from the federal government. Hundreds of counties in Western states are facing a financial crisis due to the loss of timber payments. Property taxes usually pay for county services such as law enforcement. But counties in states from Colorado to California have vast national forests and ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214671145/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 17:06:47 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214671145/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Cotehele 's formal gardens from the old orchard. The apple is particularly thick and gorgeous this year. It obscures mistletoe, and clothes limbs that until a few weeks ago were bare apart from lichen and moss. Most spectacular is the luminous Sid Coombe No 1 - a spreading tree planted here 25 years ago. Genetic testing has proved this variety to be unique, so it goes by the name of the ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214671146/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 17:00:56 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214671146/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 SARNIA, Ont. -- About 50 environmental and First Nations activists gathered to protest in Sarnia, Ont., as a two-day national conference on oil sands bitumen opened Tuesday. Carrying signs reading "People Not Profits" and "Solidarity Against The Tar Sands," they gathered to demonstrate their opposition to Alberta oil sands development and proposed pipelines. They held a ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214671147/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 16:58:12 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214671147/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 By Claudette RouloAmerican Forces Press Service FAIRFAX, Va., May 21, 2013 – The Joint Information Environment isn't a program, it's an end state, the Defense Department's deputy chief information officer for information enterprise said at an industry conference here today. The term "Joint Information Environment" simply describes the ability to deliver data to the ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214669408/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:46:34 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214669408/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Canada (FPAC), on behalf of the companies who signed the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement (CBFA), we regret that environmental groups have suspended negotiations in northwest Ontario ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214669409/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:39:52 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214669409/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 May 21, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - The founding partners of the Electric Circuit--Les Rtisseries St-Hubert, RONA, METRO, the Agence mtropolitaine de transport (AMT) and Hydro-Qubec--are pleased to announce the signing of a partnership agreement with the city of Boucherville for the installation of four public charging stations for electric vehicles (EVs) in the parking lots of the ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214669410/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:39:51 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214669410/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 May 21, 2013 /CNW/ - Today has opened the rocket engine airframes disposal facility in Dnipropetrovsk oblast. Its operation allows for environmentally friendly disposal of the RS-22 (SS-24) missile components and contributes to international security. The launch of the facility has been the result of negotiations between the ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214669411/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:39:50 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214669411/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 The Environmental Working Group , a consumer organization, has released its annual report on sunscreens to come up with a list of recommendations for what people should slather on their skin this summer . The group analyzed hundreds of sunscreens currently on the market and gave them a score between 1 and 8, with "1" being considered a top pick. Read on to see examples of what the EWG ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214669412/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:26:32 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214669412/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 The battle against global warming has received a transformational boost after China, the world's biggest producer of carbon dioxide, proposed to set a cap on its greenhouse gas emissions for the first ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214669141/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 14:35:38 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214669141/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Peter Voser, chief executive of Shell, was awarded a 2.8m bonus after a year in which the company lost 1.05bn. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214667624/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 14:34:50 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214667624/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 May 21, 2013 /CNW/ - The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency is conducting a comprehensive study type environmental assessment of the proposed Dumont Nickel Mine Project located ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214667778/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 14:25:34 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214667778/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 A Canadian coin is shown next to a pine beetle. Xcel Energy wants to explore generating electricity by burning some of the thousands of acres of Colorado trees killed by the Rocky Mountain pine beetle. Minneapolis-based Xcel (NYSE: XEL), Colorado's largest electricity and natural gas provider, on Monday said it has asked state regulators to approve its request for proposals for a power plant ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214669413/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 14:25:21 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214669413/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 The battle against global warming has received a transformational boost after China, the world's biggest producer of carbon dioxide, proposed to set a cap on its greenhouse gas emissions for the first ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214667537/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 14:24:47 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214667537/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 The proportion of UK beaches classed as "excellent" for the quality of their bathing water has fallen to its lowest level since 2000, new figures show. The number plummeted from 82.8% in 2011 to 58.2% in 2012, according ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214665283/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:16:22 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214665283/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 In 1995, government inspectors spent months on Bodmin moor in Cornwall looking for evidence of a 'beast' roaming wild there. They found nothing. Yet every year there are 2,000 similarly spurious big-cat sightings in Britain. What's going ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214665282/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:16:20 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214665282/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 More than 50 million people across a swathe of the Great Plains states were braced for a second round of extreme weather on Tuesday, from hail storms ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214665281/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:16:19 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214665281/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Learn about tree seed forecasting at one of five workshops Trees Ontario is hosting this June. Visit www.treesontario.ca to register. (CNW Group/Trees ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214665285/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:06:50 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214665285/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Print 21 May 2013 &#150 Fermenting birds, naturally freeze-drying potatoes and squeezing meat on a saddle are some of the traditional methods used by cultures around the world to preserve food highlighted today by the United Nations environment agency, which is stressing the importance of reducing food waste. ';Reducing food waste and loss is an economic, ethical and environmental ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214663552/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:17:37 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214663552/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 ban imports of sweet chestnut saplings from foreign nurseries in an effort to stop the spread of a fungal blight that is already killing chestnuts across Europe and North America and now threatens the UK's estimated 44m specimens. An infection of the blight - known as Cryphonectria parasitica - is usually fatal to sweet chestnuts. It causes a characteristic bright brown cankered bark, in ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214663547/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:56:47 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214663547/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 The dream of harnessing the mighty Congo River with the world's largest set of dams has moved closer, with the World Bank and other financial institutions expected to offer finance and ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214663548/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:56:46 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214663548/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 There's a received wisdom that tree stumps, shoots and bushes should be cleared from a field before planting crops. It seems logical, but the experience of farmers in southern Niger suggests otherwise. There, the practice of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) has been found to significantly improve soil quality and crop yields, along with additional resources and income from tree ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214663493/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:56:45 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214663493/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Florida .It's a new record for the longest Burmese python caught in the wild in Florida. The previous record was a 17ft 7in python caught in August in Everglades national park.According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the 18ft 8in snake was caught May 11 alongside a road in rural Miami-Dade County.Wildlife officials said Monday that a Miami man spotted about 3ft of ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214663549/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:56:44 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214663549/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 That's the lesson Greenpeace Sweden sent to the nuclear industry once again today as we flew our paramotor glider over the unprotected Ringhals nuclear power plant in southwest Sweden, near Gothenburg. With simple gear and without hindrance, our Greenpeace activist dropped pig-shaped balloons from the glider onto the reactor roof as part of our ongoing "stress test" of nuclear ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214663551/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 10:44:26 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214663551/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 A climate monitoring station. 'No one places their faith in any single climate model, and no one has done so for 20 years.' Photograph: Cliff Leight/Getty ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214662088/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:52:26 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214662088/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 I detest household bugs. Abhor them. There isn't a word strong enough to describe how I feel about bugs in my home. That hatred provokes guilt, because I fancy myself an environmentalist. As such, I'm supposed to feel a kinship with all creatures.We're connected in a circle of life, a colourful tapestry, a delicate web of interdependence. But I can't help it: my love of ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214662089/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:52:25 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214662089/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 To the layperson the world of forest certification is often a technical one that does not seem to operate at what could be called a breakneck pace. However, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has this week reached a landmark decision that fits the old adage that 'good things come to those who ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214662090/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:28:53 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214662090/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - A loud boom was loud enough to be heard in the shower if Harold Gallespie's south side home. When he came outside, he saw portions of his tree resting on his two cars. The trees that are 30 years old, if not older, snapped during ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214660728/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:24:47 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214660728/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 It's safe to assume that most people in the event of hitting a cyclist while driving, who realised what they had done, would stop, call the police, and stay on the scene. Not so for one young woman, who appears to have hit a cyclist, carried on driving, and then most bizarrely taken to Twitter to boast of the ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214659532/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:30:50 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214659532/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Chelsea Flower Show clings on, almost ivy-like, to its past. Just as it is wedded to convention, so too is the language used by the press to describe the annual 'horticultural extravaganza'. Like the rest of Fleet Street, the Guardian and Observer have fallen into this trap - just carry out a simple archive search and you will unearth trusty descriptions of the event being a ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214659533/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:30:49 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214659533/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 The Global Environment Facility (GEF), an international fund which among others sponsors projects in Rwanda, has warned that financial constraints might affect it programs. Based in Washington, GEF normally sponsors projects related to biodiversity, international water management systems, climate change, the ozone layer, land degradation, as well as persistent organic pollutants. During a ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214659519/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:04:50 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214659519/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 TEPCO announced yet another leak on Friday, this time from a tank holding treated water near reactors number 5 and 6 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The 27 cubic meters of spilled water had already been absorbed into the ground, but officials said that radiation was below detectable levels. After a valve was closed, the leak stopped. But, the next ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214658488/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:02:47 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214658488/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) Dubai: Dubai Electricity and Water Authority's conservation initiative saved Dh16 million in electricity and water, it was announced at the eighth Conservation Award for the educational sector.Along with Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa), the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) jointly honoured the efforts of individuals ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214654014/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:51:58 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214654014/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 View Comments Bandar Seri Begawan - Universiti Brunei Darussalam will be holding a tree planting activity tomorrow (May 22) at the university campus to mark its Green Wave campaign, according to a press release. The Green Wave is a multi-year campaign to raise awareness on biodiversity that contributes to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) programme of work on Communication, Education ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214651264/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:24:09 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214651264/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 /enpproperty--> Megumu Ubasako, chairman of 7-Eleven (Chengdu) Co Ltd, has made the capital of Sichuan province his home. "I am already a local here," said the 57-year-old Japanese national, joking that he feels like a business traveler when he returns to his home in Saitama prefecture near Tokyo every year. His affection for the city is partly due to the family like ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214648909/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:22:02 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214648909/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 This computer generated image from Lockheed Martin suggests how the company could mine manganese nodules from the sea floor, using underwater vehicles that vacuum up nodules and transport them to a ship on the ocean surface. (Source: Lockheed ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214642510/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:23:12 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214642510/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Mon May 20, 2013 5:19pm EDT (For other news from Reuters Latin America Investment Summit, click here) BUENOS AIRES May 20 (Reuters) - Argentina is pursuing U.S. environmental approval to export biodiesel more easily to that market and revitalize a local industry in "crisis" due to trade problems with the European Union, Argentina's main biofuels chamber said on Monday. The head of the ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214643881/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:19:18 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214643881/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 The rise of Ukip risks fuelling climate change scepticism as Conservative politicians embrace the populist "saloon bar" politics of Nigel Farage's party, the Energy Secretary, Ed Davey, has ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214642586/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:03:09 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214642586/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 The high limestone country north of Longstone Edge has its own strange energy, a consequence perhaps of the quarrying there, both ancient and modern. The land is scarred and nicked, like the face of a veteran fighter, a blue-collar countryside.It's also rich with tales of horror, now recruited for the purposes of tourism. The notorious highwayman Black Harry, hanged at nearby Wardlow Mires, ... http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214641377/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93 Mon, 20 May 2013 16:10:39 -0400 http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/sid/214641377/scat/9d3b36ac41649d93