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Archive for the Month of March, 2006.
Viewing Environment NEWS articles 1 through 11 of 11.
- Pesticides Found in Most Rivers, Streams - Perchlorate, the explosive ingredient in solid rocket fuel, has contaminated drinking water and soil in at least 35 states, with most of the known contamination coming from military bases and defense contractors.
- The environmental news just gets cheerier and cheerier...
- Marine researchers who have been observing the same pod of dolphins off Florida's eastern coast for three years have now, for the first time, photographed the dolphins swimming directly northward.
- A plan to build an oil pipeline that green activists and many experts say could severely damage Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest freshwater lake, has been approved by Russia’s environmental watchdog.
- The federal government wants to let chemical facilities publicly report their toxic releases only every other year — making the off years a potential open season for toxins. The feds also want to save chemical facilities time and money by allowing them to reveal much less information about their toxic releases.
- An oil spill at the Prudhoe Bay field in Alaska has turned out to be the biggest ever in the region, according to official estimates
- The Senate passed...a measure in a budget bill Thursday that included a provision to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling - just as the region suffers through one of the worst oil spills in history.
- The ice sheets of Antarctica — the world's largest reservoir of fresh water — are shrinking faster than new snow can fall...
- Dozens of the world’s cities, including London and New York, could be flooded by the end of the century, according to research which suggests that global warming will increase sea levels more rapidly than was previously thought.
- Report reveals how the world's poorer countries are forced to pay for the CO2 emissions of the developed nations
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