Provides the latest RSS feeds for Environment News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Oklahoma Star.com http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/cat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e/ en-us Sat, 18 May 2013 10:32:22 -0400 Sat, 18 May 2013 10:32:22 -0400 30 The Conservation Land Trust, a project of US philanthropists and environmental activists Douglas and Kris Tompkins, donated 15,000 hectares for the expansion of Perito Moreno National Park in southern Argentina. The donation was formalized at a ceremony presided over by Argentine Tourism Minister Enrique Meyer, who described the CLT's action as "moving". Nine years ago, the CLT provided 60,000 ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214597556/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Sat, 18 May 2013 02:20:01 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214597556/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e A scientist at the Kenya Forestry Research Institute has said the forests may soon earn Kenya millions of shillings when the carbon offset scheme begins. Researcher Chemuku Wekesa said the scheme will start once the development policies are set by the Environment ministry and discussions take place at the national and international levels. "The carbon trading business is big and will soon ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214600829/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Sat, 18 May 2013 08:11:09 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214600829/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e The Flintstones , which is set a very, very, very long time ago, Wilma Flintstone and Betty Rubble wear some absolutely darling dresses, hair accessories and even the occasional swimsuit.No one knows who was the first person to invent clothing, but at some point in the very distant past, your ancestors and mine decided to put on some animal skins to keep themselves warm. But more important than ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214598093/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Sat, 18 May 2013 02:15:08 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214598093/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Peter Robinson, Chief Executive Officer of the David Suzuki Foundation, and David Suzuki are pictured during a meeting with the Editorial Board at The Globe and Mail in 2012. The foudation was part of a coalition that demanded an environmental assessment for 10 power plants planned for northeastern British Columbia. (Deborah Baic/Deborah Baic/The Globe and ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214593944/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 20:50:19 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214593944/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Roman sky on May 2.Every photograph is actually a time exposure--images may be recorded in a fraction of a second or over hours. Shutter speed can be adjusted to do either very long or instantaneous ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214593697/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 19:19:36 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214593697/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e NASA's lunar monitoring program has detected hundreds of meteoroid impacts. The brightest, detected on March 17 in Mare Imbrium, is marked by the red square. Credit: ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214593714/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 19:04:36 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214593714/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e International Space Station (ISS), including U.S. astronaut Chris Cassidy (pictured), completed a 5.5-hour spacewalk on May 11 to repair a leaky coolant ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214592562/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 18:10:49 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214592562/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e The U.S. Department of Energy has approved a $10 billion natural gas exporting facility in Texas that has significant economic implications, manufacturers say. The project called the Freeport LNG facility was "not inconsistent with the public interest," said the Energy Department, which studied the facility's "economic, energy security, and environmental impacts." The ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214591819/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 17:55:57 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214591819/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e HS2 rail project has 3.3bn funding shortfall, warns spending watchdog , 16 May) is the land-bound equivalent of Concorde; both scams for spending billions of pounds of citizens' hard-earned wealth in order to benefit a tiny minority of very rich businessmen and multinational corporations so they can reach their destination a few minutes before they otherwise would.This reckless expenditure ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214590530/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 16:54:42 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214590530/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e The U.S. space agency, NASA, has just spotted the biggest explosion on the Moon in the eight years since the agency has been monitoring lunar impacts caused by meteoroids. "On March 17, 2013, an object about the size of a small boulder hit the lunar surface in Mare Imbrium," said Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. "It exploded in a flash nearly 10 times as ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214589406/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 16:12:22 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214589406/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Stefan Demharter, vice president of wood products for Millar Western, points to telltale blue tinges in rough lumber at the Fox Creek sawmill. The mountain pine beetle infestation is being held back in the region as loggers harvest mature pine trees and trees with signs of beetle infestation while the tree is still alive and green, and the quality of the lumber is ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214589172/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 15:50:25 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214589172/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Peaceful acts of civil disobedience has been at the heart of many major struggles humanity has fought over the past several decades: the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, the Civil Rights movement in the US and Gandhi's fight against British colonial rule in India, to mention just a few examples. Imagine a world without civil disobedience and non-violent direct action. If that's ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214590138/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 15:41:07 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214590138/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e World Trade Center includes checkpoints and guard houses. The $40 million plan, presented Thursday in a required environmental impact statement, shows security checkpoints, numerous "bollards" or vertical posts meant to stop vehicles and an elaborate "sally port" so police can enter and check tour buses, the New York Post reported Friday. The newspaper called it a "plan ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214589081/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 15:33:03 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214589081/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Is hydraulic fracturing – a common, but controversial, technique used to extract oil and gas from shale rock – bad for the environment? ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214587812/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 14:59:24 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214587812/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Since last November's Presidential election, immigration reform with a road map to citizenship for the 11 million unauthorized immigrants living in the country has been gaining momentum. On April 16 the bipartisan Senate ';Gang of 8″ introduced their immigration bill, and diverse groups such ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214587813/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 14:42:26 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214587813/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e A garden gnome painted by Elton John at the Chelsea flower show, one of over 100 decorated for charity by celebrities that the Royal Horticultural Society will unveil next week. Photograph: Nick ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214586322/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 13:34:55 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214586322/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e energy bills. But switching supplier is never going to be enough. We need to start taking energy consumption seriously.The UK currently has a handful of policies in place on this, in an attempt to catch-up with our European rivals on efforts to rein in energy consumption. The majority of UK energy programs are aimed at the housing stock. UK homes are among the least efficient in Europe, burdened ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214586323/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 13:34:54 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214586323/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Pockets of water trapped in rocks from a Canadian mine are over a billion years old, and the water could contain life forms that can survive independently from the sun, scientists said this ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214586438/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 13:16:36 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214586438/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e When Terry Serigny was growing up in Leeville, Louisiana, in the 1950s, the Mississippi River delta town was also known as Orange City for its many citrus groves. Today none of those groves remain. Leeville itself is vanishing, sinking into the Gulf of ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214586993/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 13:16:35 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214586993/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e "Maxed Out on Everest: How to fix the mess at the top of the world" in National Geographic magazine.) Thousands of prayers flags fluttered in the breeze. National flags from myriad nations rippled in the wind, too. It was an international village at the foot of the Khumbu Icefall, and it bore no resemblance to the one I visited 29 years earlier in the spring of 1983. That year we ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214587446/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 13:16:35 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214587446/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e William Borucki, principal investigator for NASA's Kepler mission , to get his thoughts on the current status of the spacecraft, its science, and what the future may hold for planet ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214587445/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 13:16:35 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214587445/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e According to an email obtained by Media Matters, Bill Sammon imposed an order on Fox News journalists to cast doubt on climate change. Photograph: Stan Honda/AFP/Getty ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214584641/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 12:13:14 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214584641/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e A special selection of content every week, giving you access to the latest news in science A weekly newsletter with the Editor's choice of the week's highlights Exclusive offers and competitions Plus, it's ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214585898/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 11:54:38 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214585898/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Chinese demonstrators shout slogans during a protest against a planned refinery project in downtown Kunming in southwest China's Yunnan province, May 16, ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214583080/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 11:07:14 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214583080/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e wildlife comes from a screen. If you're North American or get US-produced satellite TV, you've probably learned a lot about wildlife from outlets like the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and History. You might trust these channels because you've seen educational, factually accurate shows on them, unlike the 'trashy' material that dominates free-to-air network TV. But not ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214583082/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 10:54:15 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214583082/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Patrick Barkham heads to the north-east of England to visit the Farne Islands, where the National Trust is undertaking an vast puffin census over the next two months. Researchers want to know whether extreme weather has affected breeding ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214583081/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 10:54:14 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214583081/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Suggestions that global warming has stalled are a "diversionary tactic" from "deniers" who want the public to be confused over climate change, according to the world's best-known climate scientist. Prof James Hansen, who first alerted the world to climate change in 1988, said on Friday: "It is not true that the temperature has not changed in the two ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214581520/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 09:38:19 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214581520/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e IAEA officials and staff were treated to a demonstration of the capabilities of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone in connection with a consultancy meeting on using UAVS for rapid environmental monitoring that took place at IAEA headquarters from 14 to 17 May 2013. (Photo: D. ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214581630/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 09:16:02 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214581630/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e BEIJING -- China's environment ministry has given the go-ahead for the construction of what will become the country's tallest hydroelectric dam despite acknowledging it will have an impact on plants and rare fish. The dam, with a height of 314 meters (1,030 feet), will serve the Shuangjiangkou hydropower project on the Dadu River in southwestern Sichuan province. To be built over ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214580438/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 08:35:45 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214580438/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e approved construction plans for what could become the world's tallest dam, while acknowledging that the project would affect endangered plants and rare fish species.The 314 metre-high dam (1,030ft) will serve the ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214579303/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 07:15:54 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214579303/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e In the recent flurry of local authority initiatives to promote cycling, the focus has been on junctions, cycle lanes, lorries and training. One question seems be almost totally neglected: "Where could I keep a bike?" For many people, a lack of secure storage rules out cycling completely. What if you live at the top of a block of flats and aren't strong enough to carry a bike up ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214579639/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 06:57:59 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214579639/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Washington, May 17 : A Chinese blogger aged nearly 20 has attracted the regime attention for appealing to President Barack Obama to help save China's ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214578439/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 06:10:54 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214578439/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e /enpproperty--> A major environmental journalism campaign was launched in Beijing on Friday. Combating air pollution was one of the main aims of the campaign, Chen Changzhi, vice-chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, announced. Protecting water sources and promoting renewable energy will also be highlighted. Lu Hao, chairman of the Environment Protection and ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214578440/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 06:03:40 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214578440/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e A panel of seismic experts from Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has determined that a fault running directly beneath Japan Atomic Power Company's (JAPC) Tsuruga power plant in Fukui Prefecture is active, which means that the reactor will almost certainly never go online again. It is the first time since the March 2011 nuclear disaster that a reactor has been declared unsafe ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214578441/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 05:46:49 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214578441/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Delhi's Power Minister Haroon Yusuf was in for a shock on the morning of May 15 when Greenpeace activists decided to deliver a powerful message to him. To make their point that clean energy can solve Delhi's energy deficit, they wheeled in a set of solar panels in front of the Minister's residence and then chained themselves to ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214576600/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 03:54:58 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214576600/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Let me show you the world, says Swedish academic Han Rosling as he demonstrates the dynamics of population growth, child mortality and carbon dioxide emissions. The challenge for the world is to get everyone out of extreme poverty and get the richest people to use less fossil fuels so that everyone can share their energy levels, he ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214576601/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 03:51:34 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214576601/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e FRAZIER PARK, Calif. - Cooler temperatures and lighter winds gave hundreds of firefighters a breather from a wildfire that has blackened hills near Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles. The fire that broke out Wednesday in the Los Padres National Forest charred 3,800 acres of dry, thick trees in torrid conditions. But despite a 20-degree dip in heat and a heavy aerial effort to beat back flames it ... http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214576602/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e Fri, 17 May 2013 03:30:22 -0400 http://www.oklahomastar.com/index.php/sid/214576602/scat/9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e