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Amchitka: The concert that launched Greenpeace

The Star-Ledger - Thu Dec 3, 5:43 pm ET

Joni Mitchell, James Taylor and others played the 1970 Greenpeace benefit concert in Vancouver.

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Nepalese Government Holds Meeting Near Mount Everest (Update2)
Bloomberg - 39 minutes ago
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Nepal’s Cabinet issued a declaration on climate change after an outdoor meeting in the shadow of Mount Everest, in a region where shrinking glaciers threaten rivers essential to development in China, India and Pakistan.
Obama calls for new ideas for creating jobs
AP via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 11:43 pm ET
President Barack Obama promised at a White House jobs forum on Thursday to take "every responsible step to accelerate job creation," including some ideas he said could be put into action quickly. He cited an expanded program to help make more U.S. homes energy-efficient as an example.
Cities promote scooter commuting
USA Today - Thu Dec 3, 11:36 pm ET
San Francisco, Philadelphia, Seattle and Cincinnati are among cities that have recently created special parking areas for scooters.
University probes accuracy of leaked climate e-mails
USA Today - Thu Dec 3, 11:34 pm ET
A university that the U.N. has relied on for evidence of global warming said it would probe whether data was fudged to support warming claims.
US court blocks huge gold mine project in Nevada
AP via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 5:55 pm ET
A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked construction of a massive gold mine project in northeast Nevada that critics say would harm the environment and ruin a mountain several tribes consider sacred.
Laos and Portugal in Basque Country
New York Times - Thu Dec 3, 11:11 pm ET
VARIETY IS THE SPICE Basque dining at Noriega’s in Bakersfield, Calif. Bakersfield, Calif. — AT 10 minutes before noon on a Sunday it’s a cattle call at the hotel-restaurant Noriega’s here, with dozens of people crowded around the bar, drinking beer and greeting familiar faces.
Green homes red-hot: 17% of new builds get Energy Star seal
USA Today - Thu Dec 3, 11:03 pm ET
The number of homes winning the government's Energy Star designation since the program began in 1995 has crossed the 1 million mark. Despite an overall housing slump, 75,000 have been added so far this year for a total of 1,024,200.
Nepalese cabinet to hold Everest meeting
AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 10:46 pm ET
Nepalese ministers prepared Friday to fly to a remote mountain plateau in the shadow of Everest for a high-altitude cabinet meeting to highlight the impact of global warming on the Himalayas.
Wyoming BLM lease sale nets almost $3 million
AP via Yahoo! Finance - Thu Dec 3, 4:49 pm ET
A Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease sale in Wyoming has generated nearly $3 million. About 43,000 acres in 54 parcels were sold during the bimonthly sale this week.
India Offer to Curb Emission Intensity May Help Talks (Update1)
Bloomberg - 2 hours 9 minutes ago
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- India’s offer to voluntarily reduce the amount of carbon emissions per unit of gross domestic product after numerical pledges from the U.S. and China may move the climate-change talks ahead.
Chicago river poisoned to block feared Asian carp
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 9:54 pm ET
Authorities scooped up poisoned fish floating to the surface of a Chicago-area waterway on Thursday in an operation designed to keep invasive Asian carp out of the Great Lakes and prevent an ecological disaster.
Global warming may require higher dams, stilts
AP via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 9:37 pm ET
With the world losing the battle against global warming so far, experts are warning that humans need to follow nature's example: Adapt or die.
Seton Hall to reinstate Lawrence for Dec. 19 tilt
Sports Illustrated - Thu Dec 3, 9:25 pm ET
SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. (AP) -- Suspended Seton Hall junior guard Keon Lawrence will return to the basketball team at the end of the current semester.
US business leaders counter critics on climate
AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 9:16 pm ET
US lawmakers have rolled out business leaders who back action on climate change, hoping to counter criticism that a deal at this month's Copenhagen summit would hit the wobbly US economy.
Environmental Defense Fund Case Study Highlights Poland Spring Efforts to Reduce Truck Emissions
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - Thu Dec 3, 10:22 am ET
Environmental Defense Fund today released a case study highlighting Poland Spring Water Company's successful efforts to curb carbon emissions by drastically reducing truck fleet idling time.
Universal Studios unfazed by Comcast deal
AP via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 9:10 pm ET
Almost everywhere you look at Universal Studios Hollywood, there are signs flaunting the 5-year-old marriage of NBC and Universal.
Single Asian carp found in Chicago-area fish kill
AP via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 9:08 pm ET
Environmental officials say they have found a single Asian carp in a canal leading to Lake Michigan — the closest any of the giant fish have come to the Great Lakes.
Environmentalists, shippers criticize ballast plan
AP via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 8:55 pm ET
A government plan to prevent foreign species carried in ship ballast tanks from invading seacoasts, the Great Lakes and inland waterways is riddled with loopholes and would take effect too slowly, environmentalists say.
On global warming, it's still data vs. spin
USA Today - Thu Dec 3, 8:42 pm ET
Recent scandal regarding e-mails on global warming is overblown or proof of a hoax?
U.S. Forest Service to decide on alternative for oil and gas drilling issue
The Bradford Era - Thu Dec 3, 4:49 am ET
The U.S. Forest Service will decide this month on an alternative to address issues identified during the scoping process for the transition environmental impact statement for oil and gas drilling on the Allegheny National Forest.