Aug 01 2011
Nitrogen Clean Up: A Triple Win
Scrubbing wastewater of nitrogen is a potential business boon waiting to happen; it would help reduce energy use as well as air and water pollution.
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Jul 27 2011
Landslides Kill Dozens After Downpours in S. Korea
Torrential rain pounding South Korea on Wednesday triggered landslides which killed 28 people and inundated hundreds of homes in the country's worst flood damage in decades.
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Jul 21 2011
Downstream States Lose with House Bill
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that limits the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to enforce national water quality standards, giving upstream states greater authority over rivers than downstream states.
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Jul 12 2011
Cities Can Be Carbon Sinks Too
Cities can be of surprising help in soaking up carbon pollution.
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Jul 03 2011
Pipeline Rupture Spews Oil Down Yellowstone River
An estimated 1,000 barrels or 42,000 gallons of crude oil has spread over nearly 100 miles along the flooded banks of the Yellowstone River in Montana.
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Jun 29 2011
Smaller Salton Sea Silences Seismic Shocks
The periodic flooding of Southern California's Salton Sea in the past may have pressured small “stepover” faults to trigger the San Andreas. A drier Salton has eased that pressure.
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Jun 27 2011
Fire and Flood Threaten Research Center and Nuclear Plant
In New Mexico, fire and smoke has shut down the Los Alamos National Lab, and in Nebraska, floodwaters are closing in on the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant.
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Jun 23 2011
Artificial Sweetener Leaves Environmental Aftertaste
Not even kryptonite can destroy this super-strength sweetener.
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Jun 20 2011
Pilot Saves Rescuers on Niagara Falls
Two police officers had to be air-lifted to safety after a rescue brought them dangerously close to the edge of the falls.
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May 14 2011
Mississippi Allowed to Flood Cajun Country
The U.S. plans to open a floodgate to prevent the swollen Mississippi River from flooding major cities.
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