The Foreclosure Climate has Stifled Activities of Builders

Builders activities are stifled because of the foreclosure climate, but the ones linked to the Habitat for Humanity have managed to get foreclosure-free, read the full article: "The foreclosure climate has stifled the activities of builders but not so those connected with...

Tettegouche Arch Collapses After Thousands of Years (Photo)

The Tettegouche Arch in Tettegouche State Park Has Collapsed in to Lake SuperiorJim Bischoff, a park specialist, spoke to the Duluth News Tribune and said that although they do not know when exactly the Tettegouche Arch would have collapsed, considering how popular the...

Magnitude 5.9 - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

" This event has been reviewed by a seismologist. Magnitude5.9 Date-Time Wednesday, July 07, 2010 at 23:53:33 UTC Wednesday, July 07, 2010 at 04:53:33 PM at epicenter Location33.417°N, 116.483°W Depth11.7 km (7.3 miles) RegionSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Distances ...

Landslide Lake disaster in Pakistan affects 3,000 people

In January this year, in the remote Hunza River Valley of northern Pakistan, a massive landslide burried a village (Attabad), killing 20 people. It also dammed the Hunza River and the new-formed lake grew into a...

BC mine gets green light despite red tape

This mornings news uncovered a story by CBC Canada North that along with the seal hunter stranded on the Arctic ice flow spurred the birth of the following article... ""The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously ruled...

Radioactive waste dump to channel toxins into Lake Ontario

The low-level radioactive waste consolidation process slated for Port Hope, Ontario will create one of the largest nuclear waste sites in Canadian history. The planning process has been happening for a decade...

Global warming melting Bhutanese Lake rapidly

Global warming is taking toll on the lakes everywhere and tiny Himalyan kingdom of Bhutan is also suffering from this. Bhutan has many small to big size lakes. Glaciers in Bhutan are already melting creating...

Senate boosts wilderness protection across US

This is a good move.We need more land setaside for wildernessand animal protection. "In a rare Sunday session, the Senate advanced legislation that would set aside more than 2 million acres in nine states as...

WASHING THE LAS VEGAS WASH

Group celebrates transformation, reclamation of resource area"Not so long ago, the Las Vegas Wash carved its way through a southeast valley wasteland of illegal dump sites, homeless encampments and tangled forests...

Universities go green by eliminating cafeteria trays

Universities across the US are starting to ban cafeteria trays.   I found this piece quite interesting, but I’m torn if a ban will actually make a difference.  It seems like the banning of trays...

More Lake Okeechobee releases to start Tuesday

Just keeping everyone up to date as Lake Okeechobee continues to dump east and west upsetting coastal residences and environmentalist.   "By Ed Killer (Contact) Sunday, September 14, 2008 TROPICAL FARMS...

Indiana High School's Purse Ban Rankles Students

This is an interesting method of keeping students safe. A high school in Indiana has banned bags from handbags, fanny packs, purses, to backpacks in order to keep their students safe. Authorities think this will...

Shell-shocked: Carp fisherman catches Mississippi snapping turtle in British ...

A Mississippi snapping turtle caught in a British lake might at first seem just a strange story worth no further comment but the introduction of such alien species into the environment can have disasterous...

UK's Fleetwood pier destroyed by fire

One of the UK's "golden age" piers was destroyed by a fire in the early hours of this morning. The pier in Lancashire was one of the first to be built in the golden age of pier building in Britain, which lasted...

California revives program to buy water from farmers

California is reviving the dormant 17-year-old program to buy water from the Sacramento Valley farmers to then sell to the Southern California agencies. This is all due to the water reserves being all but gone,...

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