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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/science/environment science Environment News en-us Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:47:00 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/science/environment http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20120214/hl_hsn/smogmayharmwomensbrainsstudy hsn/20120214/smogmayharmwomensbrainsstudy HealthDay science Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:47:00 GMT HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 13 (HealthDay News) -- A lifetime's exposure to air pollution may contribute to mental decline in older women, a new study says. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20120213/ts_csm/466462 csm/20120213/466462 The Christian Science Monitor science Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:24:06 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - Fracking may lead to larger releases of methane into the air than previously estimated, according to a new study. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20120213/tc_ac/10947266_georgia_to_be_home_to_first_nuclear_reactors_since_three_mile_island ac/20120213/10947266_georgia_to_be_home_to_first_nuclear_reactors_since_three_mile_island ContributorNetwork science Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:31:05 GMT ContributorNetwork - On Thursday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission granted its first approved licenses for new nuclear reactors built on American soil since before the Three Mile Island incident in 1979. The news brings with it the first manifestation of the so-called renaissance of nuclear power in the United States predicted back in 2007. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120213/hl_nm/us_air_pollution_memory_loss nm/20120213/us_air_pollution_memory_loss Reuters science Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:51:23 GMT Reuters - Living in a crowded city or near a busy highway may be tied to a higher chance of having a stroke or losing your memory, new research suggests. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120213/ts_nm/us_usa_budget_energy nm/20120213/us_usa_budget_energy Reuters science Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:00:46 GMT Reuters - The White House proposed more funds for renewable energy and pipeline safety in the 2013 budget while renewing the call to end subsidies for the oil and gas sector. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120213/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_litigation_louisiana ap/20120213/us_gulf_oil_spill_litigation_louisiana AP science Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:55:54 GMT AP - A judge has dismissed all of the federal court claims against a BP PLC contractor sued over the deadly rig explosion and massive oil spill it spawned in the Gulf of Mexico. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20120213/sc_livescience/globalwarmingmakeselephantsealsdivedeeperstudysuggests livescience/20120213/globalwarmingmakeselephantsealsdivedeeperstudysuggests LiveScience.com topstories Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:20:07 GMT LiveScience.com - Lumbering elephant seals in Antarctica seem to be taking the heat from global warming, as scientists have found the mammals must dive to deeper than normal depths in warmer seas to snag food. The deeper dives may also mean less time to get food, the researchers say. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20120213/us_ac/10952254_11_states_sue_epa_over_delayed_soot_pollution_standards ac/20120213/10952254_11_states_sue_epa_over_delayed_soot_pollution_standards ContributorNetwork science Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:29:03 GMT ContributorNetwork - According to Reuters, 11 states filed a lawsuit in a Manhattan federal court on Friday demanding the Environmental Protection Agency review clear air standards for nationwide soot pollution. The lawsuit was prompted after the EPA missed an October deadline for the review. Under the Clean Air Act, the federal agency is required to review clean air standards for pollutants every five years and update the National Ambient Air Quality Standards accordingly. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120213/ap_on_bi_ge/us_offshore_wind_clergy_maryland ap/20120213/us_offshore_wind_clergy_maryland AP science Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:22:56 GMT AP - Religious leaders in Prince George's County are calling on Maryland lawmakers to support offshore wind power development. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120212/bs_nm/us_iata nm/20120212/us_iata Reuters science Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:36:27 GMT Reuters - Global airlines called on Sunday for a U.N.-brokered deal to prevent a row over aviation emissions between China and the European Union spilling into a damaging trade war. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120211/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_venezuela_oil_spill ap/20120211/lt_venezuela_oil_spill AP science Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:51:02 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120211/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_venezuela_oil_spill"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120211/capt.4960c536dcb24ef097c23f0909b3d764-4960c536dcb24ef097c23f0909b3d764-0.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=GgA4V8wPRh51i9oZDV4D8g--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="In this photo taken Tuesday Feb. 7, 2012, workers set up barriers to contain the oil spill in the Guarapiche River near Maturin, Venezuela. Crude oil that spilled from a ruptured pipeline blackened the river in eastern Venezuela. Workers have removed a 'good percentage of the crude' from the Guarapiche River said Ramiro Ramirez, environmental director of state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA. (AP Photo/ Luis Carreno/ La Prensa de Monagas)" border="0" /></a>AP - Crude oil that spilled from a ruptured pipeline has blackened a river in eastern Venezuela, and the state oil company said workers are containing the spill.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120211/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_venezuela_oil_spill"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120211/capt.4960c536dcb24ef097c23f0909b3d764-4960c536dcb24ef097c23f0909b3d764-0.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=GgA4V8wPRh51i9oZDV4D8g--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this photo taken Tuesday Feb. 7, 2012, workers set up barriers to contain the oil spill in the Guarapiche River near Maturin, Venezuela. Crude oil that spilled from a ruptured pipeline blackened the river in eastern Venezuela. Workers have removed a 'good percentage of the crude' from the Guarapiche River said Ramiro Ramirez, environmental director of state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA. (AP Photo/ Luis Carreno/ La Prensa de Monagas)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20120210/ts_csm/464812 csm/20120210/464812 The Christian Science Monitor science Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:11:31 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - The federal board that regulates nuclear power in the US on Thursday voted to allow construction to proceed on the first new commercial nuclear power reactors in more than three decades. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20120209/sc_ac/10946570_new_nuclear_plant_a_good_thing_for_the_us ac/20120209/10946570_new_nuclear_plant_a_good_thing_for_the_us ContributorNetwork science Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:32:47 GMT ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | I was glad to see that, according to Reuters, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved the first new nuclear power plant in more than 30 years. It's about time. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120209/ap_on_go_ot/us_nuclear_power ap/20120209/us_nuclear_power AP science Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:24:19 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120209/ap_on_go_ot/us_nuclear_power"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120209/capt.6463913974f74edfabb4c2d21bcd1616-6463913974f74edfabb4c2d21bcd1616-0.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=KgMbD7BdLnW2VaWVFCvwHg--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="Southern Company Chairman, President and C.E.O. Thomas Fanning announces that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted 4-1 to approve the Atlanta-based company's request to build two nuclear reactors at its Vogtle site south of Augusta, during a news conference in Atlanta Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. The NRC last approved construction of a nuclear plant in 1978, a year before a partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)" border="0" /></a>AP - The nation's first new nuclear power plant in a generation won approval Thursday as federal regulators voted to grant a license for two new reactors at a site in eastern Georgia.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120209/ap_on_go_ot/us_nuclear_power"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120209/capt.6463913974f74edfabb4c2d21bcd1616-6463913974f74edfabb4c2d21bcd1616-0.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=KgMbD7BdLnW2VaWVFCvwHg--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="photo" title="Southern Company Chairman, President and C.E.O. Thomas Fanning announces that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted 4-1 to approve the Atlanta-based company's request to build two nuclear reactors at its Vogtle site south of Augusta, during a news conference in Atlanta Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. The NRC last approved construction of a nuclear plant in 1978, a year before a partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120209/ts_nm/us_usa_nuclear_license nm/20120209/us_usa_nuclear_license Reuters science Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:53:27 GMT Reuters - Regulators on Thursday approved plans to build the first new nuclear power plant in the U.S. in more than 30 years, despite objections of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission chairman, who cited safety concerns stemming from Japan's 2011 Fukushima disaster. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20120209/sc_livescience/warmingraisesuncertaintyaboutcrucialoceanmicrobes livescience/20120209/warmingraisesuncertaintyaboutcrucialoceanmicrobes LiveScience.com science Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:24:59 GMT LiveScience.com - The tiny microbes that fill the oceans, some of which color the surface waters green, are big players in the planet's carbon budget, both sucking up and releasing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20120209/sc_livescience/firsttigerphotossnappedinindiacorridor livescience/20120209/firsttigerphotossnappedinindiacorridor LiveScience.com science Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:20:02 GMT LiveScience.com - Conservationists snapped the first known images of a Bengal tiger in an area of northern India that is important habitat for the endangered species. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120209/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_the_golden_line ap/20120209/lt_mexico_the_golden_line AP science Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:55:37 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120209/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_the_golden_line"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120209/capt.0f09ddfdb70f45b7a82c5b1bef2cd861-0f09ddfdb70f45b7a82c5b1bef2cd861-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=pnsbOId62axEV0ekCclfOg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="In this photo taken Jan. 26, 2012, Antonio Palacios Martinez pushes his boat with a wooden pole in the Lake of the Aztec Kings in Mexico City's Tlahuac borough. A 20-station metro Line 12, or Golden Line, is expected to open this summer, cutting in half a commute of more than four hours a day by bus or car for Tlahuac's residents. Few people in this semi-rural borough deny its benefits. But for many, the metro's arrival is also a sign that the slow rhythms of their unique little piece of Mexico City, already fading, soon will come to an end. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)" border="0" /></a>AP - After two hours' grueling drive southeast from the center of Mexico City, through paralyzing traffic jams and clouds of throat-burning smog, the bleached-white haze of air pollution gives way to pale-blue sky.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120209/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_the_golden_line"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120209/capt.0f09ddfdb70f45b7a82c5b1bef2cd861-0f09ddfdb70f45b7a82c5b1bef2cd861-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=pnsbOId62axEV0ekCclfOg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this photo taken Jan. 26, 2012, Antonio Palacios Martinez pushes his boat with a wooden pole in the Lake of the Aztec Kings in Mexico City's Tlahuac borough. A 20-station metro Line 12, or Golden Line, is expected to open this summer, cutting in half a commute of more than four hours a day by bus or car for Tlahuac's residents. Few people in this semi-rural borough deny its benefits. But for many, the metro's arrival is also a sign that the slow rhythms of their unique little piece of Mexico City, already fading, soon will come to an end. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120209/ap_on_re_af/af_south_africa_rhino_death ap/20120209/af_south_africa_rhino_death AP science Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:51:41 GMT AP - An attempt to protect a rhinoceros from poachers in South Africa by sedating it to treat its horn ended with the animal's death Thursday in front of journalists and others who had been invited to learn more about anti-poaching efforts, conservationists said. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120209/us_nm/us_usa_nuclear_nrc nm/20120209/us_usa_nuclear_nrc Reuters science Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:25:52 GMT Reuters - U.S. regulators on Thursday approved plans to build the first new nuclear power plant in more than 30 years in spite of objections of the panel's chairman who cited safety concerns stemming from Japan's disastrous 2011 Fukushima disaster.