DEQ fines Stayton, Marion County for polluting waterway with paint chips
State environmental regulators have fined Marion County and the city of Stayton for polluting state waterways while pressure washing the Jordan Bridge in the city’s Pioneer Park. Paint chips and...
Lebanon advances its National Adaptation Plan process
Plan to include clear economic benefits with a focus on water, agriculture, gender equality and capacity building Lebanon, August 2017 – Lebanon kicked off its National Adaptation Plan process in a...
Fossil fuel subsidies are a staggering $5 tn per year
Fossil fuels have two major problems that paint a dim picture for their future energy dominance. These problems are inter-related but still should be discussed separately. First, they cause climate...
The long hot summer of the Arab Spring
What has happened in Charlottesville showed that temperatures and tempers are flaring in this long hot summer. Is the Arab Spring spreading worldwide due to climate warming? The Arab Spring broke...
Prehistoric turkey DNA used to track ancient Pueblo migration
PULLMAN, Wash. – In the mid-to-late 1200s, some 30,000 ancestral pueblo farmers left their homes in southwestern Colorado’s Mesa Verde region and never returned. Where these people went and why they...
Virginia Wesleyan University welcomes the 1st class of the Batten Honors College
Audrey Bally and Jason Brugman had life-changing experiences in Germany. Bally was in an exchange program in 2014, and spent two months with a German family. Another girl lived with Bally’s family...
A natural gas boom in the Adriatic has created teeming nurseries of self-cloning baby jellyfish
One of the eeriest mysteries of the sea is the sudden surge in jellyfish over the last few decades. Consider the tale of the moon jellyfish. Since the first big moon jellyfish bloom was recorded in...
Magna Intl gets environmental permit to build paint factory in Slovenia
LJUBLJANA (Slovenia), August 11 (SeeNews) – Slovenia’s Environment Agency said it has awarded a permit to Magna International Inc. for the construction of a paint factory in the...
