A California company announced that it had made chemically-authentic "crude oil" from algae, which it hopes to produce commercially within five years. (Los Angeles Times)
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-greencrude29-2008may29,1,4627837.story
A North Carolina state representative introduced a bill to ban burning of coal acquired by mountaintop-removal mining (Grist).
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/5/28/17123/6269
The USDA is apparently no longer tracking pesticide use on US crops or making information about it available (Ethicurean).
http://www.ethicurean.com/2008/05/22/pesticide-info/
Reuters
One outcome of the UN Covention on Biological Diversity: a moratorium on 'ocean fertilization' for attempted carbon sequestration through induced plankton blooms (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL2981194420080530
The EU will make sharpish quota cuts to some of its fisheries [To read about some of the results, go to bbc.co.uk and search "fishery quotas."]
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL3089767920080530?sp=true
New York Times
The White House (under court orders) published a report that global warming is "very likely" caused by humans and its impacts are likely to be rawther bad.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/washington/30climate.html?ref=science
A dam is being removed sloooowly from a Montana river to prevent release of heavy-metal-contaminated sediment built up behind it, which is also now being cleaned up.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/science/27dam.html?ref=science
Seabird guano, in high demand for organic fertilizer, is running out on the Peruvian islands where it's harvested. Some blame overfishing of anchoveta, which the birds eat, for livestock feed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/world/americas/30peru.html?pagewanted=1
Science and politics clashed again over Brazilian deforestation
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/world/americas/25amazon.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=americas
DDT in Antarctic glaciers may be leaking into the sea as they melt.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/science/earth/27obddt.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin
Bangor News
Update on the Plum Creek saga
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=164947&zoneid=500
Two animal welfare/advocacy groups threatened to sue the Maine DIF&W for setting trap restrictions that haven't prevented incidental snaring of endangered Canada lynx.
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=164948&zoneid=500
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