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Children living in FEMA trailers are alarmingly sick

Photo: Marni Rosen Children who moved into FEMA trailers after losing their homes in Hurricanes Katrina and Rita have alarming rates of sickness and mental health problems, according to an […]

Sentence of the day

“The students say they initially planned to hang bed sheets, but had trouble collecting 350 sheets, so they moved to undergarments.” — “Coeds Take Off Underwear to Be ‘Green’,” AP

Oceans acidifying much faster than thought, study says

An eight-year study of ocean pH levels off the Northwest coast of the United States found that pollution is increasing the ocean’s acidity about 10 or 20 times faster than […]

Giant mob protests Brazil crackdown on illegal logging

A mob of some 3,000 people trashed a government office in Paragominas, Brazil, on Monday to protest the government’s crackdown on illegal logging. Environment Minister Carlos Minc says the riot […]

PBS’s Now on green jobs

For some reason they don’t allow their videos to be embedded on other sites — luddites! — but if you want to click over and watch it, PBS’s show NOW […]

Western Shoshone tribe files suit against gold mine on sacred mountain

Members of the Western Shoshone Indian tribe have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management seeking to stop a just-approved open-pit gold mine from digging up what […]

Federal court upholds Michigan’s clean-ballast-water law

A Michigan state law requiring oceangoing ships to keep their ballast water onboard or treat the water to kill any live organisms before discharging it into the Great Lakes has […]

Rescuers save 11 whales after mass stranding

Most of the 64 pilot whales that were stranded on a beach in Tasmania this weekend have died, but rescuers were eventually able to save 11 of them by moving […]

Friday music blogging: Dr. Dog

Dr. Dog is an indie band out of Philadelphia. Their new album Fate is their fifth, but their first on a new label (Park the Van). It feels like a […]

Companies liable for annoying pollution even if it’s legal, says Canadian court

Polluters in Canada can be sued for spewing excessively annoying smells, noise, or dust — even if their pollution is within legal limits, Canada’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The ruling, […]