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U.S. Forest Service recognizes Mississippians

WLOX-TV Biloxi - 2 hours 42 minutes ago

JACKSON, MS (WLBT) - The U.S. Forest Service recognized hundreds of Mississippians. It was all in an effort to say thanks for the work they do around the state.

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Forest Service eyes night flying against fires
USA Today - Wed Dec 9, 3:36 pm ET
The U.S. Forest Service is considering allowing its helicopters to attack wildfires at night, a practice the agency has long discouraged because of risks to pilots.
Climategate distracts at Copenhagen
Politico via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 2:59 pm ET
COPENHAGEN — “Climategate” has muddied the good green message that was supposed to come out of the United Nations climate change talks here, forcing leaders to spend time justifying the science behind global warming when they want to focus on ending it.
Greenpeace On Obama's Nobel Prize: "You Won It. Now Earn It."
The Huffington Post - Wed Dec 9, 9:00 am ET
What's Your Reaction? In light of the President's trip to the climate conference in Copenhagen, Greenpeace has republished their statement on President Obama's Nobel Prize.
Experiment to test killing 1 owl to help another
AP via Yahoo! News - 58 minutes ago
Federal biologists are designing an experiment to see if killing the aggressive barred owl that has invaded old growth forests of the Northwest would help the spotted owl, which is protected.
Wildland fire season officially ends
Kern Valley Sun - 1 hour 35 minutes ago
The U.S. Forest Service (USFS), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Tule River Reservation Fire Department (TIA) and Kern County Fire Department (KCFD) officially declared the end of the 2009 wildland fire season on Saturday, November 21st.
Company: Cobalt mining in Idaho to start in 2011
AP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 7:42 pm ET
A Canadian mining company won initial federal approval for a plan to mine cobalt used in hybrid car batteries and jet engines from deep beneath the central Idaho mountains.
Obama meets environment groups ahead of climate talks
AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 7:33 pm ET
President Barack Obama met US environmental groups and business leaders on Wednesday ahead of climate talks in Copenhagen, the White House said.
Judge Halts Timber Sale in Alaska Roadless Area
New York Times - Wed Dec 9, 1:27 pm ET
A federal judge has halted a timber sale in a roadless area of Alaska's Tongass National Forest that had been greenlighted by...
America the Beautiful passes selling at Bureau of Land Management's Needles Field Office
Needles Desert Star - Wed Dec 9, 3:18 am ET
NEEDLES -The U.S. Bureau of Land Management Needles Office is selling three types of America the Beautiful passes that allow enjoying government-owned land and national parks while saving money.
China urges deep soul-searching for US on climate
AP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 5:38 pm ET
The U.S. and China exchanged barbs Wednesday at the Copenhagen climate talks, underscoring the abiding suspicion between the world's two largest carbon polluters about the sincerity of their pledges to control emissions.
Barack Obama's rise marks America's first multiracial decade
The Yahoo! Newsroom via Yahoo! News - 9 minutes ago
Everyone has a day of awakening when it comes to race. For me, it was a cool September day when I was eight years old. My family had recently moved to Colorado from Tennessee and like any child starting a new school, I was nervous. In the administrator’s office, my mother and I waited to go over my files. Nearby was another family—a white mother and a black father with their son and daughter ...
West Virginia: Wind Project Halted
New York Times - 12 minutes ago
Work on a West Virginia wind power project was halted by a federal judge who sided with environmentalists’ claim that the project would harm the endangered Indiana bat.
Giant oil spill in Alaska likely caused by ice
AP via Yahoo! News - 19 minutes ago
Officials believe that ice plugged up a pipeline and likely caused a rupture that sent 46,000 gallons of crude oil and water gushing onto snow-covered tundra on Alaska's North Slope late last month.
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USA Today - 48 minutes ago
President Obama will accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Thursday.
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New York Times - 48 minutes ago
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Developing nations clash over climate targets
AFP via Yahoo! News - 50 minutes ago
A major rift surfaced at UN climate talks between emerging giants and countries most exposed to the ravages of global warming as top polluter China took aim at rich nations for failing to act.
Mongolia looks to foreign IPOs for mineral wealth: report
Reuters via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 9 minutes ago
Mongolia may eventually list state-owned mineral assets in international stock markets so that the country can convert more of its natural resource wealth into cash, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
And in This Corner, Climate Doubters
New York Times - 1 hour 22 minutes ago
At their own forum in Copenhagen, the contrarians displayed as much passion for their cause as the environmental activists pushing for urgent action on global warming.
Meeting the Irwins: Life after the 'Crocodile Hunter'
CNN - 1 hour 22 minutes ago
I always wanted to meet Steve Irwin. He was the quintessential Aussie who took manliness to a whole new level, wrestled man-eating crocodiles, wrangled poisonous snakes and would pick up any of God's creatures to show the world how remarkable animals really are.
Apps of the Week: Going green, or at least trying to
CNN - Wed Dec 9, 10:39 am ET
The word "green" has become a vague and overused marketing term for something that's supposed to be good for the environment.

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