DailySource: Environment

ENVIRONMENT: The cause of Scottish low life expectancy

Thu, 31 May 2012 08:34:06 -0400

When compared with life expectancy of other European nations and the UK as a whole, Scotland is significantly lower.
(Story: Environmental News Network)

ENVIRONMENT: On Everest

Thu, 31 May 2012 04:41:28 -0400

(Blog: National Geographic)

ENVIRONMENT: Everest mountaineer says crowding by ‘hobby climbers’ is path to tragedy

Thu, 31 May 2012 04:41:28 -0400

An experienced mountain climber, Ralf Dujmovits appeals to the Nepalese government to enact stricter control in deciding on who may, or may not climb the dangerous peak.
(Story: Guardian)

ENVIRONMENT: ‘Vertical farm’ blossoms at plant

Wed, 30 May 2012 09:03:07 -0400

An old meatpacking plant on Chicago’s South Side is being transformed into an eco farm, which its founders say will produce food sustainably while creating zero waste.
(Story: CNN)

ENVIRONMENT: White-nose disease continues to spread

Wed, 30 May 2012 06:56:10 -0400

White-nose syndrome, the disease that has killed millions of bats, keeps getting worse. It has made a thumb-sized bat rare in parts of New England and has spread through most of the Eastern U.S.
(Story: McClatchy Newspapers)

ENVIRONMENT: Our love-hate relationship with fuel

Wed, 30 May 2012 02:36:10 -0400

Few inventions have shaped more facets of modern life than the car. We live in cities built around the automobile, and most painfully, we burn money as quickly as the fuel ignites in our engines.
(Story: National Geographic)

ENVIRONMENT: Sequoia smog damaging forestry

Tue, 29 May 2012 08:48:35 -0400

The Sierra Nevada forest that is home to the biggest and oldest living things on earth — the giant Sequoia redwoods — also suffers from the worst air pollution of any national park in the country.
(Story: San Francisco Chronicle)

ENVIRONMENT: Japan’s radiation has been found in California bluefin tuna

Tue, 29 May 2012 04:53:42 -0400

Radioactivity has been detected in fish that migrated into Calif. waters from the ocean off Japan where radiation contaminated the sea after explosions at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
(Story: San Francisco Chronicle)

ENVIRONMENT: Culture splits climate views rather than science smarts

Mon, 28 May 2012 08:52:08 -0400

Support for climate science doesn’t increase with science literacy, a survey suggests. Rather, people with technical backgrounds just dig in harder on their views about global warming.
(Story: USA TODAY)

ENVIRONMENT: Weather around the world

Mon, 28 May 2012 07:25:35 -0400

(Slideshow: ABC News)