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- Oil gusher forces State Dept. into awkward diplomacy with Cuba
by Jonathan Hiskes Add this to every other sort of headache the Gulf of Mexico spill has caused: It's now an international relations problem too. As Brendan DeMelle reports , the State Department has sent diplomatic notice about the spreading oil threat to Mexico, the Bahamas, th... - Atlantic leatherbacks at risk from fisheries
Scientists have used satellites to track the world's largest nesting population of leatherback turtles across the South Atlantic for the first time. Their results reveal the routes the critically endangered creatures take make them more vulnerable to commercial fishing in the Sou... - Fracking causing earthquakes in England and Oklahoma
by Sarah Laskow. Natural gas fracking caused an earthquake in England. And a spate of quakes in Oklahoma. And while the idea that fracking for natural gas causes earthquakes has been floating around, these quakes offer stronger proof that fracking seriously messes with the envir... - Where does Obama stand on climate change?
by Jess Zimmerman. Obama didn’t say much about climate change in his speech yesterday, even as he laid out some ambitious energy goals . This leaves the media and activists guessing at what his next move will be -- he’s a sort of Schroedinger’s President, who c... - Canada omitted 20 percent increase in oil-sands emissions from U.N. report
by Sarah Laskow. Canada reported to the United Nations that the country's greenhouse-gas emissions were dropping, down 6 percent in the last year. But the government left out one teensy little detail in its report. The emissions from the oil-sands industry, which extracts ha...
