Environment Point

Judge: EPA must regulate ship water discharge (AP)
Thursday, July 24, 2008, 7 hours ago

AP - An appeals court Wednesday upheld a ruling ordering the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the water discharged from ships as a way to protect local ecosystems from invasive species. .. read more..

Judge: EPA must regulate ship water discharge (AP)
Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 12 hours ago

AP - An appeals judge says the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate the water discharged from ships as a way to protect local ecosystems from invasive species. .. read more..

Why You Will Eat Less in the Future (LiveScience.com)
Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 12 hours ago

LiveScience.com - With food and fuel costs soaring and the financial costs of global warming becoming reality, a new cure-all prescription has emerged: The average American should eat less. .. read more..

How Smart Homes Could Power the Future (LiveScience.com)
Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 13 hours ago

LiveScience.com - Editor's Note: Each Wednesday LiveScience examines the viability of emerging energy technologies - the power of the future. .. read more..

Name change for French wine to avoid link with nuclear plant (AFP)
Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 15 hours ago

AFP - A French wine could soon change its name before next year's grape harvest to avoid being associated with a uranium leak at an eponymous nuclear power facility. .. read more..

Oil spill shuts Mississippi River (Reuters)
Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 16 hours ago

Reuters - A collision between a chemical tanker and a fuel barge on the Mississippi River spilled over 400,000 gallons of fuel oil and prompted the U.S. Coast Guard to close a 29-mile stretch of the waterway around New Orleans, a Coast Guard spokesman said. .. read more..

Dengue cases in Philippines rise by 43 percent: government (AFP)
Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 18 hours ago

AFP - Global warming may have contributed to a 43 percent rise in the number of dengue cases in the Philippines for the first half of the year, the health secretary said Wednesday. .. read more..

Japanese town blazes trail in clean energy (AFP)
Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 1 day ago

AFP - In the mountains of northern Japan, wind, sun and even cow dung are being turned into electricity as part of efforts to turn a whole town into an experiment in renewable energy use. .. read more..

Shippers protest at SKorea exit ban on tanker crew (AFP)
Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 1 day ago

AFP - Two officers from a Hong Kong supertanker have been banned from leaving South Korea despite being cleared of blame for the country's worst oil spill, world shipping organisations complained Wednesday. .. read more..

Climate protester tries to glue himself to Brown (AFP)
Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 1 day ago

AFP - A climate change protester unsuccessfully tried to superglue himself to Prime Minister Gordon Brown at an event in the leader's residence, a government spokesman said Tuesday. .. read more..