Bangkok swelters, sparks debate on city planning in Asia

By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK | Fri May 4, 2012 7:44am EDT BANGKOK (Reuters) – Five months after the worst floods in half a century, the Thai capital is facing a heat wave with temperatures at three-decade highs, stoking debate over chaotic urban planning that blights many of Southeast Asia’s overcrowded capitals. The daily average [...]

Plant study flags dangers of warming world

By Nina Chestney LONDON | Wed May 2, 2012 1:19pm EDT LONDON (Reuters) – Plants are flowering faster than scientists predicted in response to climate change, research in the United States showed on Wednesday, which could have devastating knock-on effects for food chains and ecosystems. Global warming is having a significant impact on hundreds of [...]

Polar bears can swim vast distances, study finds

By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska | Tue May 1, 2012 10:35pm EDT ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – Polar bears are capable of swimming vast distances, a potential survival skill needed in an Arctic environment where summer sea ice is vanishing, a study led by the U.S. Geological Survey showed on Tuesday. The study, published in the [...]

Exxon Mobil shuts Louisiana oil pipeline after leak

By Janet McGurty and Matt Daily Mon Apr 30, 2012 5:06pm EDT (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp has shut the 160,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) North Line crude oil pipeline in Louisiana after a leak spilled 1,900 barrels of crude oil in a rural area over the weekend, affecting a conduit that supplies the nation’s third-largest refinery. [...]

Goldcorp says court suspends Chile project green nod

Mon Apr 30, 2012 7:46am EDT (Reuters) – Goldcorp Inc, Canada’s No. 2 gold miner, said environmental permit approval for its El Morro copper-gold project was suspended by the Supreme Court of Chile. Sociedad Contractual Minera El Morro, which is 70 percent owned by Goldcorp and rest by New Gold Inc, suspended all field work [...]

Goldcorp says court suspends Chile project green nod

Mon Apr 30, 2012 7:46am EDT (Reuters) – Goldcorp Inc, Canada’s No. 2 gold miner, said environmental permit approval for its El Morro copper-gold project was suspended by the Supreme Court of Chile. Sociedad Contractual Minera El Morro, which is 70 percent owned by Goldcorp and rest by New Gold Inc, suspended all field work [...]

Salmon revival in sight as Elwha River dams fall in U.S. Northwest

By Laura L. Myers OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK, Washington | Sat Apr 28, 2012 6:05pm EDT OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK, Washington (Reuters) – In the wilderness of Washington state’s Olympic National Park, hydraulic hammers chip away at the Glines Canyon Dam in the largest dam-removal project in U.S. history. The grinding knocks off chunks of concrete, slowly [...]

Dolphin stuck in California wetlands draws a crowd

By Alex Gallardo HUNTINGTON BEACH, California | Fri Apr 27, 2012 7:47pm EDT HUNTINGTON BEACH, California (Reuters) – A dolphin who took a wrong turn from the Pacific Ocean into a Southern California wetlands became an unwitting star on Friday when scores of motorists on a nearby busy highway stopped to watch it swim in [...]

Tibetan quake victims fight China government land grab

By Sui-Lee Wee GYEGU, China | Thu Apr 26, 2012 4:38pm EDT GYEGU, China (Reuters) – For two years after a cataclysmic earthquake struck a remote and wild part of China’s northwestern Qinghai province, Baobao and 29 other homeless ethnic Tibetan residents occupied the area outside several government buildings to denounce a land grab. But [...]

Eagle center struggles to supply American Indians rituals

By Keith Coffman COMMERCE CITY, Colo. | Wed Apr 25, 2012 5:30pm EDT COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (Reuters) – A wildlife specialist splays the wings of a dead golden eagle shipped in from New Mexico and is pleased by what he sees. “This one is an awfully good bird,” Dennis Wiist of the U.S. Fish and [...]

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