ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS PICKS
AL GORE: Al Gore places infant son in rocket to escape dying planet
ARCTIC MELTING: Robot planes getting bird’s eye view of shrinking Greenland Ice Sheet
AUTO INDUSTRY: Going small: A smart experience: With $4-a-gallon gas and waiting lines nine months long, the Smart Fortwo is becoming the car for informed Americans wanting to make a statement, The Cars.com true mileage index
BIG OIL: Big Oil’s biggest quarter ever: $51.5B in all
CARBON TAX: South Africa pushes climate change plan: Ambitious proposal includes carbon tax
CHINA: China fails to keep promises it made to win Olympic game
ECOSYSTEM IMBALANCE: Jellyfish invasion bothering beachgoers: The stinging creatures showing up on sand and in water in unusually high numbers
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: Incredible fish armor could suit soldiers
ENERGY CONSERVATION: Energy conservation: Starting at home, Maryland residents asked to cut energy use
E-WASTE: Electronic e-waste to be e-cycled: How to greenly recycle your gadgets
FISHERIES: Killer herpes decimates young French oysters
GREENWASHING: Insidious Examples Of Greenwashing
HUMAN-WILDLIFE CONFLICT: Pelican vs. trout: Who wins in Idaho?
HYBRID TECHNOLOGY: Things go better with Coca-Cola hybrids
MARINE MAMMALS: Belugas troubled by tourism?
NEGLECTED DISEASES: Nigeria’s neglected diseases: Making the case to fight schistosomiasis
NEW SPECIES: Aptostichus stephencolberti: Stephen Colbert gets a spider named after him, Dolphin find may make marine history: A DIMINUTIVE dolphin called “Snubby” may make history in marine science if DNA samples taken this week from animals off the northwest Kimberley coast prove they are the world’s newest dolphin species or sub-species, New catfish species found, Crew films rare species of dolphin:
A camera crew has filmed a rare species of dolphin that has only been known to scientists for three years near Broome, Western Australia
OFFSHORE DRILLING: Drilling is up, prices are up, Bush rips Democrats for opposing offshore drilling
SCIENCE: ‘Gravity tractor’ could deflect asteroids
SHARKS: Blue sharks beat the odds, by tasting bad, Shark avoids suffocation by turning off electricity
SOCIAL ISSUES: Attenborough alarmed as children are left flummoxed by test on the natural world
SOLAR: Utah’s solar fired furnace to power California for less than the cost of coal or gas
WIND POWER: World’s largest wind farm planned in Oregon
