skippy the bush kangaroo: environmental news story sunday

Sunday, July 12, 2009

environmental news story sunday

for those stories you might not see on the front page above the fold.

as unclear as water. - labels on bottled water make it difficult for consumers to discern what is in their water: has it been purified or tested? a congressional hearing and two new reports illustrate the lack of information that consumers have about what’s in a bottle of water. - living on earth

oregon opens the tap wider for recycling gray water as demand grows, supplies wane. - oregon, which faces a population surge in a time of uncertain water supplies, may follow the example of water-starved cities such as tucson, ariz., which requires many new structures to be plumbed to make use of gray water.- portland oregonian

reducing carbon could be a dirty job, but this farmer will do it. - since abandoning chemical fertiliser for a natural formula, darryn smith has felt his soil soften, seen worms return and watched the veterinary bill for his 180 cattle fall dramatically. - melbourne age

beyond oil. - texas' drilling economy has become a lot more diverse. the state has already exceeded threefold a target it set itself in 1999 for the amount of power to be generated from renewables--almost wholly thanks to wind. - the economist

sandstorms scour u.s. troops, iraqis. unseasonable sandstorms have been blinding iraq for about 10 days, sending people to hospital emergency rooms with breathing problems. iraqi scientists say the sandstorms, which blotted out the sun for much of the past 10 days, are some of the worst iraq has seen in generations. - ustoady

mumbai facing water cuts as lakes run dry. - india's financial and entertainment capital is facing a 30 percent cut in water supplies, despite an overnight deluge of monsoon rains on wednesday that left some streets and homes flooded. - afp

poisoned legacy. - bhopal, the hiroshima of the chemical industry, is still claiming victims – babies born 25 years later with serious birth defects. - glasgow sunday herald

iraq veteran blames his suffering on chemical exposure. - seven national guard veterans in west virginia are among 50 nationwide who say they are experiencing severe health problems after being exposed to hexavalent chromium in iraq. now, many of them have been diagnosed with respiratory tumors and other illnesses. some have died. - west virginia public broadcasting

eastern aral sea has shrunk by 80 percent since 2006: esa. - the eastern lobe of the disaster-struck aral sea seems to have shrunk by four-fifths in just three years, the european space agency (esa) said on friday - afp

alaska natural gas gets new competition.- just as the prospects for the alaska gas line seem to be growing brighter, new drilling techniques have unlocked vast pools of natural gas all over the lower 48, from texas to pennsylvania. for now, demand isn't keeping up. prices have swooned and drill rigs are idling.- ankorage daily news

report predicts even hotter southeast in decades to come. - sue to global warming, the aoutheast is likely to see twice as many days a year with temperatures hitting the 90 degree mark or hotter, according to a federal report released last month - macon telegraph

millions in restoration has done little to stem damage. - louisiana's barrier islands, called the state’s first line of defense because they slow waves and storm surge, once formed a large unbroken arc in the gulf of mexico. erosion and storms, however, have created smaller islands. - houma today

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