The Stories That Matter To The Environment
Reports have shown that in 2009, people have killed a total of 20 grizzly bears in Western and North Central Montana. These included three which were unlawfully killed in the vicinity of the Rocky Mountain Front.
According to the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s coordinator for the recovery of grizzly bears, Chris Servheen, this is not [...]
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Caterpillar Inc (CAT.N) announced on Monday that it will enter the FutureGen Alliance to put up a $1.5 billion coal-fuelled power plant with zero emissions to generate electricity and hydrogen while capturing carbon dioxide from underground in Mattoon, Illinois.
A month ago, the Exelon Corp (EXC.N), known as the biggest power corporation in the US, also [...]
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Drax’s Chief Executive Dorothy Thompson told Reuters on Friday that her company needs support for better renewable sources of energy for them to be able to invest in new facilities that burn woodchips instead of the usual coal. Renewable energy support would also enable the company to completely utilise its current carbon reduction capability.
Under the [...]
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Cat food could be the answer to Australia’s problem on toxic cane toads, one of the major pests in the country that environmentalists have long attempted to stop from ravaging the native ecological environment.
University of Sydney scientists said that when they put cat food near the ponds where baby cane toads were thriving, it attracted [...]
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Senator Dianne Feinstein, the proponent of the ploy to give California farmers more water, announced Friday that she was making an effort to prevent controversial legislation. The senator sparked the anger of fishing groups, environmentalists, and other Democratic officials with her proposal.
Around 300,000 acres of farmland and 23,000 farm workers from America’s top farming state [...]
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