More flooding on 2nd day of CA ‘king tides’
Pedestrians cannot resist getting close to Thursday’s king’s tide cresting along the San Francisco Embarcadero on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. The tide measured 7.2 at the Golden Gate and was the highest of the year. The king tides are expected to peak during the next several days, with surges over 9 feet in some areas. The phenomenon is caused More...
EPA to tighten standards for soot pollution
WASHINGTON (AP) — In its first major regulation since the election, the Obama administration will impose a new air quality standard that reduces by 20 percent the maximum amount of soot released into the air More...
New tests could hamper food outbreak detection
LAURAN NEERGAARD,Associated Press MARY CLARE JALONICK,Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — New tests that promise to speed up diagnosis of food poisoning pose an unexpected problem: They could make it more More...
UN climate talks in Qatar boost Gulf awareness
MICHAEL CASEY,AP Environmental Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Holding a high-profile U.N. climate change conference in Qatar, smack in the middle of the region that produces so much of the fossil fuel blamed More...
Energy experts say drilling can be made cleaner
KEVIN BEGOS,Associated Press SETH BORENSTEIN,Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — In the Colorado mountains, a spike in air pollution has been linked to a boom in oil and gas drilling. A thousand miles More...
After climate talks, eyes on US for next round
KARL RITTER,Associated Press DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Even as international climate talks ended this weekend with no new commitments on carbon emissions or climate aid from the United States, some were relieved America More...
USDA to allow more meat, grains in school lunches
MARY CLARE JALONICK,Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Agriculture Department is responding to criticism over new school lunch rules by allowing more grains and meat in kids’ meals. Agriculture More...
Middle East beginning to embrace solar energy
MICHAEL CASEY,AP Environment Writer ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Covering nearly 300 football fields in a remote patch of desert, the Shams 1 solar project carries off plenty of symbolic significance More...
Gene-altered mosquitoes could be used vs. dengue
JENNIFER KAY,Associated Press KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Mosquito control officials in the Florida Keys are waiting for the federal government to sign off on an experiment that would release hundreds of thousands More...
World Bank: Arab World hit hard by climate change
MICHAEL CASEY,AP Environmental Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — The Middle East and North Africa will be especially hard hit by climate change in the coming decades, the World Bank said in a report Wednesday, saying More...
