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Sunday, September 27, 2009

environmental news story sunday

those stories that aren't easily found on the front page of your corporate paper

from motown to hoetown. - businessman matt allen is pitching a radical and highly contentious solution for shrinking detroit. empty whole parts of the city, dig up the concrete, yank down the light poles, and reclaim what was here before a guy named henry ford moved to town: farmland

putting your investments where your dinner is. - combine poisonous factory-farm tomatoes with disgraced investment banker bernard madoff. then throw in a stock market disaster that cost investors their life savings. you may have the recipe for a revolution. - cbc canada

skulls found on mafia ship laden with toxic waste. - toronto star - pressure is growing on the italian government to act over revelations that 30 or more ships with radioactive cargoes, deliberately sunk by the mafia, may be polluting the mediterranean. - london independent

maldives’ cabinet all wet over the climate. - politicians rarely admit when they sink to new depths but for the maldives government, it’s a badge of honour. president mohamed nasheed will host an underwater cabinet meeting to draw attention to the impact of climate change on the indian ocean archipelago. - afp

another utility leaves u.s. chamber over climate policy. - a new mexico electric utility will leave the u.s. chamber of commerce because of the business group's position on climate change - greenwire

breathing problems as dust rolls north. - the second dust storm in a week is causing more health problems in new south wales and residents in south-western queensland are also struggling to see through the haze as it moves towards brisbane - abc news australia

dust storms spread deadly diseases. - huge dust storms, like the ones that blanketed sydney twice last week, hit queensland yesterday and turned the air red across much of eastern australia, are spreading lethal epidemics around the world. - london observer

hazed and confused. - a haze has choked southeast asia on and off for more than a decade. if singapore is wincing from an overdose of carbon monoxide, then so too is the entire indonesian archipelago along with malaysia, from the tip of north borneo to southern thailand and beyond - bankok post

lawsuit weighs atrazine's threat to water supplies. - a madison county class-action lawsuit filed in 2004 over the use of the popular herbicide atrazine is gaining steam, and one lawyer says it could reshape farming practices nationwide. - belleville news democrat

vanishing aspens. - fall is upon us. and for the rocky mountain west that means the beautiful gold colors of the aspens. but, increasingly, the aspens are dying. scientists report that drought conditions in the rocky mountain west are contributing to sad, sudden aspen decline. - living on earth

caring for resources key to smokies' future. - the challenges to the smokies ecosystem are well-known and well-documented - air pollution, invasive species and fringe development that constricts important habitats - knoxville news sentinel

mcdonald's spud has had its chips as quest begins for greener potato. - it's often criticised as a standard bearer of a global capitalism that puts profits before the environment. but the giant mcdonald's fast food empire has now launched a mission to produce an eco-friendlier french fry. - edinburough scotsman

harvesting hope.- a chicago homeless shelter's greenhouses are transforming soil and souls -- and not necessarily in that order -- thanks to an urban plant expert, a former heroin addict and a million or so worms - chicago tribune

30-mile fish kill at dunkard creek. - when fish started dying in dunkard creek, west virginia environmental regulators, along with federal officials struggled unsuccessfully to figure out what happened, but dunkard creek was having problems long before fish started going belly up. - charleston gazette

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