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EnviroLink News Service The EnviroLink News Service compiles the most relevant news stories of interest to the global environmental community from sources around the Internet.
EPA not spilling the beans on bees.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is refusing to disclose records about a new class of pesticides that could be playing a role in the disappearance of millions of honeybees in the United States, a lawsuit filed Monday charges.

If Congress lifts the offshore oil drilling moratorium, what happens next?

If Congress bows to pressure from Republicans and decides to lift its restrictions on offshore oil drilling, it is unclear exactly what would happen next. Such a move would take the country into uncharted waters.

Ivory Coast's forgotten acrid waste.

The UN says the dumping of 500m tonnes of chemical waste in Abidjan led to at least 16 deaths and more than 100,000 other victims needing medical treatment. Two years on it is still here.

Stuart Orr of the World Wildlife Fund on Britain's water consumption

Stuart Orr of the World Wildlife Fund explains a new report that shows each Briton uses 4,645 litres a day when hidden factors are included

Study: Possible diabetes link to arsenic in water

A new analysis of government data is the first to link low-level arsenic exposure, possibly from drinking water, with type 2 diabetes, researchers say.

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Baltic states failing to protect most damaged sea

Nine Baltic sea states all scored failing grades in an annual WWF evaluation of their performance in protecting and restoring the world’s most damaged sea. The assessment, presented today at the Baltic Sea Festival, graded the countries on how well they are doing in six separate areas - biodiversity, fisheries, hazardous substances, marine transport and eutrophication - and on how they have succeeded in developing an integrated sea-use management system.

Utility fees sought for environmental research center

With this year's legislative session in its final days, lawmakers Monday unveiled a bill mandating new fees from electricity ratepayers to fund a University of California-run global warming research center.

Climate change leadership baton passes to new hands

WWF has welcomed the initiative taken by a new group of countries in showing the way forward as the latest round of UN climate talks drew to a close in Accra, Ghana today.

Green Building Standards Under Construction

The world's leading certification system for sustainable architecture is set to undergo its most sweeping changes in 2009. The proposed revisions encourage designs that would reduce a building's impact on global climate change.

Getting on Board with Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporate boards can and should influence their companies' social and environmental performances finds a new report. Institutional investors are helping push the importance of social and environmental issues on companies' bottom lines.

World Water Week demands halt to food wastage

Scientists and experts from around the world have warned that global food wastage must be halved by 2025 to meet the challenges of feeding the rapidly-growing population and preserving global water supplies.

UN climate talks advance on forests, industry

U.N. climate talks in Ghana are making progress on ways to help developing nations slow deforestation and have eased disputes over use of greenhouse gas targets for industrial sectors, delegates said on Monday.

When glaciers disappear, the bugs move in

We've all been stunned by images showing the dramatic retreat of mountain glaciers. Yet few of us have given much thought to what happens next.

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