Environment
VIDEO: Pacific Northwest preparing for millions of tons of Japanese tsunami debris
In coastal communities from California to Alaska, communities are bracing for a monumental clean-up task. A debris field perhaps the size of California is bringing materials from Japan's earthquake and tsunami ravaged areas across the Pacific Ocean, with some items already making landfall.
Environmental Protection Agency has rough 2011, shows uneven progress
Environmentalists swiped at the EPA for not doing enough to protect the environment and curb pollution, while conservatives say the agency is destroying American jobs. But they're poised to reveal some big decisions in 2012....
As temperatures rise, humans and nature will both have to adapt
With rising temperatures, more precipitation and more fierce storms, civilization will have to change how it works. It'll be catching up with the animals, which are already making changes....
Israeli company bringing renewable power to remote, powerless Palestinian villages
COMET-ME was established to help some of the dozens of Palestinian villages that aren't hooked up to any electric grid. By setting up solar panels and wind turbines, the company provides power to villages that previously had none....
North Pole reindeer in danger of extinction
The Peary caribou and the dolphin union caribous live in the shadow of the North Pole. Changing global climates have the diminutive reindeer on the verge of extinction....
Conservative Christians lining up support for EPA rule on Mercury
Catholic and evangelical Christians are taking their fierce opposition to abortion and casting it in an environmental direction. They're rallying support for a new EPA rule to limit pollution from mercury....
Himalayan mountain glaciers show signs of global warming
As the global climate changes, one of the clearest manifestations of the change is in the disappearance or shrinking of the glaciers in the Himalayan mountain range. These glaciers provide fresh water to 40 percent of the Earth's population and their disappearance could be devastating....
VIDEO: Central Plains states rocked by deadly blizzard
At least six people have died on U.S. highways while driving in winter weather across the middle parts of the United States. All this just as the holiday travel season is getting started....
In Oregon, a new marine reserve that should help scientists document fish travels
Oregon's about to open its first marine reseve, off the coast of Port Orford. Now, scientists are trying to use the area to study the life cycle and patterns of fish, to try and get a better sense of how they live their lives....
EPA acknowledges link between fracking, well pollution in Wyoming
The Environmental Protection Agency conducted a three-year study of wells in Wyoming near sites where hydraulic fracking has been conducted and found extensive contamination and a possible link to the the fracking process....
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