AltWeeklies Wire
What's Poisoning the Beesnew
Toxic pesticides are killing honeybees and other pollinators — and our food supply stands to suffer.
East Bay Express |
Sam Levin |
06-03-2014 |
Environment
Home to Roostnew
In a landmark decision, drillers are ordered to pay for damages to homeowners.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Peter Gorman |
05-06-2014 |
Environment
Tags: Aruba Petroleum, Oil Drilling
Charlotte is Ground Zero for Coal Ashnew
Duke Energy is polluting our water and shareholders could put a stop to it.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Rhiannon Fionn |
04-30-2014 |
Environment
Edmonton’s Great Green Shiftnew
Edmonton eyes carbon-neutral future despite lack of leadership from higher governments.
VUE Weekly |
Josh Marcellin |
04-25-2014 |
Environment
Tags: edmonton environment
Save the World, Work Lessnew
With climate change threatening life as we know it, perhaps it's time to revive the forgotten goal of spending less time on our jobs.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Steven T. Jones |
04-16-2014 |
Environment
Chemical Trespass: Poison From Abovenew
More than 30 people in Curry County, Ore. say a helicopter dripping pesticides over their rural homes sickened them and their animals last October. Under Oregon law, helicopters can spray toxic pesticides right next to people's homes and farms, with no protective buffers.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
04-16-2014 |
Environment
Tags: pesticides
The Fight Over Frac Sand Mining in Wisconsinnew
Towns battle the state for local control.
Isthmus |
Tamara Dean |
03-25-2014 |
Environment
Tags: Frac Sand, Frac Sand Wisconsin
America's Dirtiest Secretnew
The oil and gas industry's contamination problems are so large, they have literally been deemed impossible to prevent or even clean up by both industry and government. As a result, an unimaginable tonnage of contamination is being placed into our environment every year.
Boulder Weekly |
Joel Dyer and Jefferson Dodge |
03-17-2014 |
Environment
Weathering the Stormnew
Extreme weather and climate change's effects on prairie birds.
VUE Weekly |
Rebecca Medel |
03-07-2014 |
Environment
One with bald eaglesnew
38 nesting pairs of bald eagles now inhabit the Worcester region, thanks to the efforts of Dianne Benson Davis and others starting in the early 1980s.
Worcester Magazine |
Lynne Hedvig |
02-20-2014 |
Environment
Hanging by a Wirenew
Overhead power lines dominate the Alberta landscape, but their safety is called into question.
VUE Weekly |
Rebecca Medel |
02-14-2014 |
Environment
Can Buffalo Bayou Survive the Latest Plan to Save It?new
Plans to reroute Buffalo Bayou will rescue an unstable waterway. Or they will destroy one of the last natural stretches of riparian forest on the bayou. Consensus seems to have taken a hike.
Houston Press |
Dianna Wray |
01-09-2014 |
Environment
Tags: buffalo bayou
Georgia's new coast, courtesy of climate changenew
Now's the time to start planning how to adapt to sea level rise.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Dana Habeeb and Larry Keating |
12-16-2013 |
Environment
A Conservative vs. Right to Hunt, Fish, Farmnew
HEC's "Greening the Statehouse" featured a GOP critic of SJR-7
NUVO |
Ed Wenck |
11-22-2013 |
Environment
Another Fish Species on the Brinknew
Experts say the number of striped bass in San Francisco Bay has plunged dramatically because of the Delta pumps, which send freshwater to the arid San Joaquin Valley.
East Bay Express |
Alastair Bland |
11-12-2013 |
Environment
