Freight train with chemical cars derails in California

By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES | Wed Jul 27, 2011 9:32pm EDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Union Pacific freight train hauling about 14 chemical cars derailed on Wednesday in a desert town north of Los Angeles, prompting the evacuation of at least 100 homes, but the railroad said the overturned tankers were all empty. [...]

Hordes of hungry bats both delight and darken Austin

By Karen Brooks AUSTIN, Texas | Wed Jul 27, 2011 11:02pm EDT AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – There are 1.5 million bats living under a bridge in downtown Austin, and a historic Texas drought is making them hungrier than ever. That’s bad news for the bats in the world’s largest urban bat colony. But it is [...]

Some worry Tennessee town may be world nuclear waste dump

By Tim Ghianni NASHVILLE, Tenn | Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:04pm EDT NASHVILLE, Tenn (Reuters) – A new contract to process 1,000 tons of nuclear waste from Germany has environmental activists concerned that the town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee could become a prime destination for the world’s nuclear trash. The city in east Tennessee was [...]

Interesting Eco Facts

Knowledge can be fun to learn and a useful tool in everyday life for career and just general day by day activities. With today’s current climate change war having information and facts about the environment and our planet has become an essential thing. So get learning and sharing green information!   People all over the [...]

Contaminated river in China sparks panic buying of water

BEIJING | Wed Jul 27, 2011 3:54am EDT BEIJING (Reuters) – Residue from a manganese plant has flooded a river in a city in the southwestern province of Sichuan, contaminating the main source of drinking water and sparking panic-buying of bottled water, state media said on Wednesday. Residue from the Xichuan Minjiang Electrolytic Manganese Plant [...]

It’s dim up North, so people need bigger brains

LONDON | Wed Jul 27, 2011 4:39am EDT LONDON (Reuters) – People from northern parts of the world have evolved bigger brains and larger eyes to help them to cope with long, dark winters and dim skies, scientists said on Wednesday. Researchers from Oxford University studied the eye sockets and brain capacity of 55 human [...]

Global climate talks can reach agreement

WELLINGTON | Wed Jul 27, 2011 1:35am EDT WELLINGTON (Reuters) – A global deal on a pact to succeed the U.N.’s main climate agreement is still within reach but will not be struck this year, with the pace of talks still far too slow, New Zealand’s top climate negotiator said on Wednesday. Inevitably, there would [...]

South Korea finalizes eco-tourist plan for DMZ: report

SEOUL | Wed Jul 27, 2011 4:52am EDT SEOUL (Reuters) – The South Korean government on Wednesday finalized an $17.9 billion blueprint to create an “ecological tourism belt” in regions near the border with North Korea by 2030, local media reported. The blueprint fleshed out a plan to turn the areas near the Demilitarised Zone [...]

Landslides, flash floods hit South Korea, 32 dead

By Yonghak Jo CHUNCHEON, South Korea | Wed Jul 27, 2011 9:16am EDT CHUNCHEON, South Korea (Reuters) – Torrential rain battered the South Korean capital Seoul and surrounding regions Wednesday, causing dozens of landslides and flash floods that killed at least 32 people, the emergency services said. In the worst single accident, a landslide crashed [...]

UK government to plug solar tariff loophole

LONDON | Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:52am EDT LONDON (Reuters) – The British government plans to plug a loophole in its support scheme for solar power plants which would have allowed producers to benefit from higher tariffs for large-scale plants which the government intends to curb. The Department of Energy and Climate Change announced on [...]

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