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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.
Locations of high-risk coal ash sites kept secret.

The Obama administration has decided to keep secret the locations of nearly four dozen coal ash storage sites that pose a threat to people living nearby.

U.S. vows strict mountaintop mine oversight.

The Obama administration promised tougher oversight of strip mining in Appalachia yesterday and will require case-by-case scrutiny of mining companies' requests to fill streams with rock blasted off mountains

Chevron fights Ecuador pollution lawsuit.

About 916 pits used by Texaco Petroleum and PetroEcuador are at the centre of what is shaping up to be the biggest environmental lawsuit in history, with $27bn in potential damages sought against Chevron, which bought Texaco in 2001.

France to pay nuclear test compensation.

Nearly 40 years after the first of its 210 nuclear tests, France is preparing to compensate people affected by the fallout.

N.J. scientists urge state to adopt strictest levels for cancer-linked chromium.

New Jersey scientists are urging the state to adopt the strictest levels ever for Chromium-6, the deadly carcinogen linked to lung cancer and which contaminates more than 200 former industrial properties in Hudson County.

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Plant life saved Earth from an icy fate

Besides the obvious benefits they bring, it looks like we owe our very existence to plants, which helped prevent the Earth from freezing over during the past 25 million years.

US at Bottom of G8 Emissions Reduction/Climate Change Action Rankings

The US ranks next to last among G8 member countries when it comes to cutting greenhouse gas emissions and paving the way toward a clean energy economy, according to a World Wildlife Fund SE-Allianz study released July 1.

Biological 'Fountain Of Youth' Found In New World Bat Caves

Scientists from Texas are batty over a new discovery which could lead to the single most important medical breakthrough in human history—significantly longer lifespans.

Intertropical Convergence Zone of Heavy Preciptiation Moving North

The rain band near the equator that determines the supply of freshwater to nearly a billion people throughout the tropics and subtropics has been creeping north for more than 300 years, probably because of a warmer world, according to research published in the July issue of Nature Geoscience. If the band continues to migrate at just less than a mile (1.4 kilometers) a year, which is the average for all the years it has been moving north, then some Pacific islands near the equator -- even those that currently enjoy abundant rainfall -- may be drier within decades and starved of freshwater by midcentury or sooner. The prospect of additional warming because of greenhouse gases means that situation could happen even sooner.

EPA Proposes New Standards for Large Ships

The US Environmental Protection Agency today announced the next steps in a coordinated strategy to reduce emissions from ocean-going vessels. EPA is proposing a rule under the Clean Air Act that sets tough engine and fuel standards for U.S. flagged ships that would harmonize with international standards and lead to significant air quality improvements throughout the country. "These emissions are contributing to health, environmental and economic challenges for port communities and others that are miles inland. Building on our work to form an international agreement earlier this year, we’re taking the next steps to reduce significant amounts of harmful pollution from getting into the air we breathe," said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. "Lowering emissions from American ships will help safeguard our port communities, and demonstrate American leadership in protecting our health and the environment around the globe."

Sea Ice At Lowest Level In 800 Years Near Greenland



Mummified Dino Yields Skin Molecules

The extremely well-preserved remains of a 66-million-year-old hadrosaur, known as a "dinosaur mummy," have just yielded soft-tissue skin structures and organic molecules, according to a new study. While research on other dinosaurs has led to the identification of organic material linked to bones, co-author Roy Wogelius told Discovery News that "this is the first dinosaur to reveal intact skin structure and associated organic molecules."

Swine Flu: Just the Latest Chapter in a 91-Year Pandemic Era

The current strain of H1N1 influenza, or swine flu, has people scared because it’s a novel virus that most of the population has never been exposed to. But as a group, H1N1 viruses aren’t new. They’ve been circulating since 1918, when a new strain appeared simultaneously in pigs and humans and killed 40 to 50 million people in a single year. Over the past 91 years, the virus has jumped back and forth between humans, pigs and birds — and possibly even been resurrected from a laboratory freezer. Taking a historical view of the swine flu is critical to understanding the current pandemic, and future outbreaks, argue scientists in two perspectives published Monday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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