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Powerful Farmers Negotiate Deal for Billions of Gallons of Water in Parched California (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-01-2007 at 06:00:35
| The U.S. government appears poised to turn over the rights to billions of gallons of water to a politically connected group of farmers in California, where most people are being asked to conserve. |
Investigators Not Told about Cheney Contact, Interior Official Says (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-01-2007 at 06:00:35
| The Interior Department's inspector general didn't find political interference by Vice President Dick Cheney on a key environmental policy in part because investigators weren't looking for it, an Interior official said Tuesday. |
UN Climate Change Meeting Aims at Rich Countries (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-01-2007 at 06:00:35
| The first U.N. special session on climate change focused on the world's rich countries Tuesday, as policy-makers urged long-standing polluters to shoulder much of the burden for cutting greenhouse gases. |
Twelve Thousand People Evacuated as Fires Rage in Spain's Canaries (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-01-2007 at 06:00:35
| Forest fires have razed 35,000 hectares on Spain's Canary Islands, just as the tourist season reaches its peak, forcing the evacuation of more than 12,000 people, the island government said on Tuesday. |
Paris Woos Cyclists as Free Bike Scheme Takes Off (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-01-2007 at 06:00:35
| This year's Tour de France may have been ruined by doping scandals but a new city bike scheme has ensured two-wheeled transport has rarely been more popular on the streets of the French capital. |
Dead Zone Detected for First Time in Gulf off Texas; Flooding Named as Culprit (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-01-2007 at 06:00:35
| Fresh water pouring into the Gulf of Mexico after weeks of flooding in Texas has created an oxygen-depleted "dead zone" that threatens sea life, a researcher said Tuesday. |
Mud Island Emerges off Trinidad Coast (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-01-2007 at 06:00:35
| A mud-spewing fissure in the ocean floor has given birth to a tiny Caribbean island and is posing a threat to small boats.
The island, breaching a few inches above the ocean's surface and stretching 500 feet long |
New Zealand's First Ethanol Blend Fuel Reaches Market; Step to Carbon Neutrality (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-01-2007 at 06:00:35
| The first commercially available biofuel for New Zealand motorists went on sale Wednesday with a 10 percent bioethanol-blended petrol being sold from Gull New Zealand gas stations. |
Unions, Others Plan to Sue EPA over Pesticide They Say Sickens Farm Workers (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 08-01-2007 at 06:00:35
| Unions and nonprofit groups said Tuesday that they will sue the Environmental Protection Agency in a bid to ban a popular pesticide they say sickens farm workers and rural residents. |
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