Washington Post--At least a quarter of the world's wild mammal species are at risk of extinction, according to a comprehensive global survey released here Monday. [Read more]
NY Times--American business, typically a reliable Republican cheerleader, is decidedly lukewarm about Senator John McCain's proposal to overhaul the health care system by revamping the tax treatment of health benefits, officials with leading trade groups say. [Read more]
NY Times--The presidential candidates claim to see America’s energy future, but their competing visions have a certain vintage quality. They’ve revived that classic debate: the hard path versus the soft path. [Read more]
The Sun--The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced it does not intend to set a national drinking-water standard for perchlorate, a common contaminant in Southern California drinking water. [Read more]
New Scientist--Negotiations seeking a global pack to tackle global warming are troubled and could end in disastrous failure, China's top climate change envoy warns, saying rich countries are failing to deliver on promises. [Read more]
LA Times--Under an agreement reached with 3 conservation groups that could restrict drilling off Alaska's coast, the Interior Department has until 2010 to designate critical habitat for the threatened species. [Read more]
NY Times--Scientists trying to save one of the world’s most endangered species of freshwater turtles say waiting is their only recourse after a complicated attempt to mate two elderly turtles during this year’s breeding season ended without producing any offspring.
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The Tennessean--The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced Monday that it will delay a decision on whether to allow 20,000 tons of low-level nuclear waste from Italy to be shipped to Tennessee until a court case pertaining to the controversy is resolved. [Read more]
Washington Post--Picture 100,000 wind turbines rising from the Great Lakes off Michigan's shores, casting spinning shadows on the water and producing electricity for the entire Upper Midwest. [Read more]
NY Times (Opinion)--For years, while Washington slept, most of the serious work on climate change has occurred in the states, and no state has worked harder than California. The latest example of California’s originality is a new law — the nation’s first — intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by curbing [Read more]
NY Times--An American and two Japanese physicists on Tuesday won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work exploring the hidden symmetries between elementary particles that are the deepest constituents of nature. [Read more]
BusinessWeek--It's simple: Alternative energy is where the venture capital is these days. Plus, the skill sets are similar, and researchers are making the jump [Read more]
Reuters--European Union lawmakers backed more domestic action to fight climate change, cutting import limits on carbon offsets from developing countries through 2020, in a vote on Tuesday which will carry into EU negotiations. [Read more]
New Scientist--CITIES are shouldering too much of the blame for heating up the planet, while the effects of deforestation, agriculture and wasteful lifestyles are not getting the attention they deserve. [Read more]
N.Y. Times--More than one-third of all Americans will soon receive better insurance coverage for mental health treatments because of a new law that, for the first time, requires equal coverage of mental and physical illnesses. [Read more]
UPI--A decade-long push to protect the U.S. Great Lakes water supply came to fruition with the signing of the Great Lakes Compact, Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle said. [Read more]
N.Y. Times--From 2010 to 2015, NASA expects to have no human flight capacity and will depend on Russia to get to the $100 billion station, buying seats on Soyuz craft as space tourists do. [Read more]