ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS PICKS
AGRICULTURE: Global quandary: How to feed a growing planet
ANIMAL WELFARE: Tales from a N.Y. animal sanctuary
ARCTIC DRILLING: ANWR: Two Cents a Gallon in a Generation
AVIATION INDUSTRY: Its back against the wall, airline industry looks to come clean
BIOFUELS: Kudzu gets kudos as a potential biofuel
BOTTLED WATER: Deposits on bottled water? Group pushes to spread law to other nonrefundable containers littering state
BYCATCH: Bycatch fees won’t help seabirds, says study
CAR-FREE ZONE: On 3 days in August, New York City will try no-car zone: “[T]he idea was to make the streets a haven for walkers, cyclists and others. Fitness, dance and yoga classes will be held along the route, and there will also be places to rent bicycles.”, Manhattan says goodbye to the car … just a little
CIVILIZATION: The plan for tomorrow’s mega city
DESALINATION: Innovative Watertecture in the Dead Sea
ELECTRIC VEHICLES: With the Chevy Volt, General Motors—battered, struggling for profitability, fed up with being eclipsed by Toyota and the Prius—is out to reinvent the automobile, and itself., The electric car lives: Backed by U.S. venture capital, Norwegian company Think is betting its Ox concept vehicle can prove the electric car’s time has finally arrived
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: Justices turn down appeal by Exxon
EXTINCTION: Mass extinctions due to sea level changes, study says
FISHERIES: Japan squid industry halted, U.S. Supermarkets not doing enough to protect fish - Greenpeace report
FUEL CELLS: UTC power to supply 4.8MW fuel cell system for WTC site
FUEL SPILL: Uruguay spill killing wildlife
GREEN: Go green and save green: expert’s guide
GROSS INAPPROPRIATE USE OF RESOURCES: Hummer by the numbers
HUMAN POPULATION: World Population To Hit 7 Billion By 2012
HYDROGEN VEHICLE: Honda makes first hydrogen cars
MARINE MAMMALS: Roaming polar bears spotted in Iceland, Sea lion seizures may result from toxic algae
NATURE: Jellyfish outbreaks a sign of nature out of sync
OCEANS: Schools of robo-fish for finding oil spills, tracking wildlife
OCEAN WARMING: Oceans warming faster than realized
OFFSHORE DRILLING: Offshore drilling like searching the couches for loose change?, McCain’s offshore drilling position a flip from three weeks ago
OIL: Oil trading volatile despite Saudi output pledge, Making the most of strategic oil reserves, Too few luxuries per gallon, Orlando tells limo operator
RENEWABLE RESOURCES: Cheaper solar? Just add steam
SOLAR: 10% of U.S. electricity from solar by 2025
WEATHER: Heat wave strains California’s power grid
WIND POWER: Invention brings wind energy home, Construction to start on rotating wind-power tower
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