Murray-Darling Plan reflects the failure of the government
Wed, 30 May 2012 14:38:18 -0700

The revised draft of the Murray-Darling Basin plan was released this week. As the pdf thudded down in inboxes everywhere, there arose a slow, whining moan. It seems no one likes this version of the plan, not the conservationists, not the scientists, ...

Environment News: Harper Government Protects the Great Lakes from Asian Carp
Mon, 28 May 2012 10:50:39 -0700

"The Great Lakes is the largest freshwater system in the world and represents one of Canada 's most valuable assets," added Minister Ashfield. "We are committed to working with our American counterparts to continue to protect the Great Lake basin .

Role of Science , Future of Energy and Grazing Feature in Grouse Comments
Sun, 27 May 2012 01:13:51 -0700

Out of the 26 open houses held in the Great Basin Region, which includes Idaho, more than 500 comments were submitted. All of the comments have been sorted into 10 different themes, with the majority of the feedback focusing on how the BLM would use ...

Environment taking a beating, Barlow says
Tue, 29 May 2012 18:30:48 -0700

Barlow, national chairperson of the Council of Canadians, was in Owen Sound for the seventh stop on an eight-city speaking tour on the Great Lakes basin . She was joined by speakers from the Canadian Environmental Law Association and Sierra Club of ...

Sequoias, earth's oldest life, smothered by smog
Tue, 29 May 2012 07:36:34 -0700

Slideshow: America's national parks (on this page) "It's not a great story to tell, but it's an important story to tell because you can look at us as being the proverbial canary in a coalmine," said Annie Esperanza, a park scientist who has studied air ...

Snake Valley Festival Slated for June 15-17 in Baker
Mon, 28 May 2012 22:27:13 -0700

Anyone from Las Vegas who hasn't seen the Great Basin National Park is missing an amazing natural jewel in our own state And will learn why a proposal to destroy the Great Basin to supply Las Vegas median strips and golf courses with more water is ...

Fall of huge ancient civilization blamed on climate change
Tue, 29 May 2012 08:43:46 -0700

Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia may be the best known of the first great urban cultures, but the largest was the Indus or Harappan civilization. This culture once extended over more than 386000 square miles (1 million square kilometers) across the plains ...

New presidents provosts UAE Great Basin Haverford NSC Potomac UCSD Tulsa
Wed, 16 May 2012 21:20:15 -0700

New Presidents or Provosts: Great Basin College, Haverford College, Nevada State College, Potomac State College-West Virginia U., United Arab Emirates U., U. of California-San Diego, U. of Tulsa Mohamed Yousef Hasan Baniyas, vice provost for medical ...

Delays on Rinehart project irk Burke
Tue, 29 May 2012 07:10:55 -0700

The Alpha project is the first coalmine to be built in Queensland's resource-rich Galilee Basin and has inflamed environment groups. The potential use of foreign construction workers will add to the controversy that has split unions and the federal ...

Peripheral Canal, a giant tunnel or something, says new report
Wed, 30 May 2012 21:05:52 -0700

California has the ability to manage water shortages by using surface reservoirs and groundwater basins to "bank" water for dry years, and tools such as drought conservation programs and water markets to voluntarily reallocate water.

Cerca: History near-constant companion on U.S. Highway 50
Sun, 27 May 2012 02:16:41 -0700

If you do start on the eastern end, your logical first stop, just off Highway 50, is Great Basin National Park. It's our state's only national park, but one of the park system's newest, and one of the least crowded. For the best value per visit, ...

USF's Experts on Hurricanes and Weather
Wed, 30 May 2012 12:13:36 -0700

Come what may, several USF faculty members have a great depth of expertise across various disciplines to share. They also make themselves available to serve as sources for the news media to address a variety of hurricane-related issues.

Ian Plimer: Mining tax to destroy industry
Wed, 30 May 2012 19:04:07 -0700

Ian Plimer: Science is married to evidence. The creationists ignore the past and that is geology. And the climate catastrophists ignore the past and that is geology. Lelde Smits: Ian your latest book is out, How to get expelled from school, ...

Global warming threatens pine forests , forcing federal officials to shift strategy
Sun, 13 May 2012 18:50:18 -0700

But it is also a larger symbol of how researchers from the Forest Service in concert with National Park Service officials and other scientists are working to steel high-elevation pine forests in the West against the onslaught of climate change.

Canadian Oil Explorers Pumping Profits
Wed, 30 May 2012 10:34:37 -0700

I have been watching with great interest what HRT Participacoes em Petroleo SA (HRTPY:OTCBB) has been doing up in the Solimoes Basin . It's a Brazilian company that went public in Brazil with a number of North American private shareholders.

Canadian Oil Explorers Pump Profits Abroad: Frederick Kozak
Wed, 30 May 2012 07:12:30 -0700

I have been watching with great interest what HRT Participacoes em Petroleo SA (HRTPY:OTCBB) has been doing up in the Solimoes Basin . It's a Brazilian company that went public in Brazil with a number of North American private shareholders.

New study suggest some US states could run out of groundwater in 30 years
Wed, 30 May 2012 19:43:11 -0700

Key farming regions in the US are drawing water from underground sources at unsustainable rates, with slightly more than one-third of the southern Great Plains at risk of tapping out its sources within the next 30 years. Those are among the conclusions ...

Obama putting youth to work this summer
Wed, 23 May 2012 11:28:53 -0700

In Colorado, Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests , the Rocky Mountain Youth Corps, The Nature Conservancy and Yampatika Outdoor Awareness Association are hiring young people to work on the Yampa River Basin in northwest Colorado, working on wildlife ...

Genes culled from desert soils suggest potential medical resource
Sun, 27 May 2012 09:08:45 -0700

... the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rockefeller University, New York, NY, and colleagues extracted DNA from soils from the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, the Anza Borrego section of the Sonoran Desert of California, and the Great Basin Desert of Utah.

Colorado: Citizen science research on pikas to be crowdfunded with a boost ...
Thu, 24 May 2012 23:11:10 -0700

Farther west, several studies show that pikas may be in more trouble in the Great Basin , and California has decided that pikas are a candidate for the state endangered species list as they disappear from areas like Lassen National Park and the Bodie ...