Lake Okeechobee water levels are dropping to nearly 10.5 feet above sea level – the point where gravity would no longer move water to drainage canals that send the water south. By Andy Reid Sun Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, FL 8:05 a.m. EDT, May 19, 2011 Lake Okeechobee’s declining water level strains urban and environmental water […]
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The Daily Tribune Mount Clemens, MI by Staff Published: Friday, May 20, 2011 Students, staff and parents at a couple of Royal Oak schools deserve congratulations for their efforts to protect the environment and learn about it in the process. Keller Elementary was named the most environmentally responsible school in Oakland County at the 2011
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Posted by Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor bikeportland.org) on May 22nd, 2011 at 6:26 pmSunday East Portland did a stellar job kicking off the Sunday Parkways season. The weather held up for the most part, with just a light drizzle hitting just before the end of the event. The turnout wasn’t the full-street mobs we’ve seen at Parkways
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Government vows to ‘suffocate environmental crime’ after 27% rise in Amazon deforestation in a year Hundreds of environmental protection officers are being deployed in the Brazilian Amazon after government satellites detected a sudden, unexpected surge in deforestation. On Wednesday, Brazil‘s environment minister Izabella Teixeira announced the creation of a “crisis cabinet” to crackdown on illegal logging in
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The Fayetteville Observer Published: 07:03 AM, Sun May 22, 2011 By Michael Futch Staff writer For now, state geologists are finished with their research in central North Carolina. After studying 59,000 acres in the Deep River basin for 15 years, they have concluded that Lee, Chatham and Moore counties could produce enough natural gas from
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By Rosanne Camunez / For the Sun-News Posted: 05/22/2011 01:00:00 AM MDT As someone who works hard at my New Mexico small business, I am frankly growing weary of Congressman Steve Pearce’s attacks on our state’s clean water and wild places under the false assertion that protecting New Mexico’s vital resources costs jobs. In the past
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The Korea Times By Lee Hyo-sik The government rejected only one of every 100 construction and other development projects through an environment review system last year, data showed Sunday, drawing criticism that it puts higher priorities on construction at the expense of the environment. Under the review system, the government examines whether or not development
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Brittany Green, Web Content ProducerFox 13 11:53 p.m. MDT, May 21, 2011 NORTH SALT LAKE, Utah— Fifth grade students at the Wasatch Peak Academy are conducting a project that could save money and the environment. A ten kilowatt solar array now sits on the roof of the school as part of that project, something they
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“Get some gloves and pick a partner,” Tom Tokar yelled, standing on the water-sodden lawn near Ahern Stadium in a small curve along Newark Bay. Students from Bayonne High School grabbed a pair of white gloves left in a pile on the lawn, then marched down a narrow path to a 60-yard-long beach, which rain
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The purpose of this Earth Ethics Discussion Forum is to promote the discussion of what Earth Ethics are and how to use them in our everyday life. Although not limited to high school and college students, this “open source” project to help create and define Earth Ethics and it’s implementation, is primarily driven these young
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