Tri-nation exercises against oil spill at sea The Daily Tribune | 07/05/2009 | The Philippines, Japan and Indonesia will hold a three-day joint exercise in combating oil spill at sea. | Admiral Wilfredo Tamayo, Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) commandant, said the joint exercises by the respective coast guard units of the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia would test ...
SoCal Asian communities aim to weed out toxic fish Syracuse | (AP) - WESTMINSTER, Calif. - John Fallan's trained eye scans rows of iceboxes brimming with tiger fish and shrimp in a Vietnamese supermarket, searching for one pesky fish that threatens the health of seafood lovers. | Authorities say the white croaker has become a popular catch in local Asian com...
"Dangerous World of Butterflies": A threatened universe of dazzling creatures Seattle Times | "The Dangerous World of Butterflies - The Startling Subculture of Criminals, Collectors and Conservationists" | by Peter Laufer | Lyons Press, 271 pp., $24.95 | Award-winning journalist and radio host Peter Laufer has tackled many sobering subjects...
California water plan could help Puget Sound orcas survive The News Tribune | A plan to restore salmon runs on California's Sacramento River could help revive killer whale populations 700 miles to the north in Puget Sound, as federal scientists struggle to protect endangered species in a complex ecosystem that stretches alon...
Hoagland: Obama and the law of the sea Denver Post | VENICE — Europe will be wrangled for the next six months by a lanky no-nonsense Swede named Carl Bildt. His country chairs this semester's cascade of European Union summits, procedural debates and other gabfests. As Sweden's foreign minister,...
Eat me . . . and save the planet The Times | There is one way in which 2015 will be like 2009. Red-top newspapers and the blogosphere will be in uproar. Thanks to the purblind, immoral bureaucracies of Brussels and Westminster, hard-working local councillors will be bankrupted by vindictive c...
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Amnesty blames Shell for oil cover-ups Independent online | By Daniel Howden | Abuja - Oil giant Shell has been covering up catastrophic oil spills in the Niger Delta by blaming them on sabotage by local people, according to Amnesty Inter...
Dad gets prison for oil tank spill in Pa. forest The Examiner Comments BRADFORD, Pa. (Map, News) - A northwestern Pennsylvania man will spend two to 10 years in state prison for conspiring with his son to cause an oil spill in the Allegheny N...
Lebanon's struggling fishermen angling for catch Middle East Online Mustapha Shaalan yearns for the days when he would go out to sea and haul in 40 kilograms (88 pounds) of fish in the blink of an eye. | Nowadays, like most fishermen in this southe...
Ban on bags will challenge residents' consumer habits Gulf News | Dubai: The UAE will have a total ban on plastic shopping bags, typically handed out in bundles at supermarkets, by 2012 in a bid to protect the environment and challenge residents' consumption habits. | The Ministry of Environment and Water (MOEW) ...
SoCal Asian communities aim to weed out toxic fish Syracuse | (AP) - WESTMINSTER, Calif. - John Fallan's trained eye scans rows of iceboxes brimming with tiger fish and shrimp in a Vietnamese supermarket, searching for one pesky fish that threatens the health of seafood lovers. | Authorities say the white cro...
SoCal Asian communities aim to weed out toxic fish The Press Democrat | Authorities say the white croaker has become a popular catch in local Asian communities. But when reeled in off a stretch of California's coastline southwest of Los Angeles, the fish has been laced with cancer-causing toxins stored from decades of ...
Early Honduras elections floated The Australian | TEGUCIGALPA: Leaders of a coup in Honduras have said they would consider early elections as a way to resolve the country's political crisis, ahead of a visit by the head of the Organisation of American States. | OAS secretary-general Jose Miguel Insulza was expected to arrive last night for a quick visit to press international demands for ousted ...
Crude oil tumbles to $66 Manila Standard Today | SINGAPORE—Oil prices hovered above $66 a barrel Friday in Asia in light holiday trading volume a day after grim unemployment numbers from the US and Europe sent crude prices tumbling. | Benchmark crude for August delivery slipped 26 cents to $66.47 a barrel by midday Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. ...
