Environment

Environment

Meters Would Help Sacramento Homes Save More Water

2:19pm June 26, 2014

by Joe Rubin

Officials in California are asking people to use less water because of the severe drought. But about a million people in the state live in homes without the best means of water-use management: meters.

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Conservancy Buys Land Along Dan River

11:00pm June 23, 2014

The Piedmont Land Conservancy has bought a large tract of land along the Dan River.

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Environmental Group Claims Carcinogenic Contaminents in Private Well Water Near Retired Duke Plant

7:24am June 19, 2014

Coal ash waste from a retired Duke Energy plant is being connected to contaminated well water in Rowan County.

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Tour de Yadkin Runs Through June 28

10:17pm June 17, 2014

The Yadkin Riverkeeper's Tour de Yadkin is in full swing and there's still time to sign up for a trip on the water.

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Plastic floats ashore in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Plastics Don't Disappear, But They Do End Up In Seabirds' Bellies

8:33pm June 17, 2014

by NPR Staff

When bottles and bags are cast out to sea, the debris never truly goes away — it just gets smaller. And these plastic particles, called microplastics, are ready meals for fish and birds.

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Rules Force Washington To Cut Emissions More Than Other States

7:46am June 11, 2014

The Environmental Protection Agency has announced strict new carbon emissions regulations. Washington state has the largest reduction target — about 72 percent overall.

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Cleanup From March Storms Ends; More Than 1 Million Cubic Yards of Debris

11:29am June 10, 2014

It took about three months but a four-county cleanup from the ice storms back in March has finally ended.

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Stanford Dumps Its Holdings In Coal, With Climate In Mind

9:59am June 10, 2014

by Melissa Block

Stanford says it will its divest holdings in coal companies over climate change concerns. It's the most prominent of the roughly one dozen colleges that have decided to sell off fossil fuel holdings.

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Some universities have stopped investing in coal companies, but many others don't see the point. An aerial view of the Coal Hollow Mine in Utah in 2012.

When Colleges Ditch Coal Investments, It's Barely A Drop In The Bucket

9:59am June 10, 2014

by Yuki Noguchi

Stanford will stop investing in coal companies, but coal is still in demand worldwide and probably will be for many years. As long as that's true, coal companies are likely to find willing buyers.

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Clint Muhlfeld, an aquatic ecologist with the USGS, holds a native Westslope cutthroat trout in Glacier National Park.

Hybrid Trout Threaten Montana's Native Cutthroats

9:53am June 10, 2014

by Christopher Joyce

Climate change in the West is luring rainbow trout to higher elevations, where the fish are mating with native cutthroats, genetic evidence shows. Biologists and anglers worry cutthroats could vanish.

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