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Severe drought in U.S. Southeast leaves Atlanta water supply in question

A nasty drought in the U.S. Southeast that began in early 2006 has local politicians sweating and meteorologists and climatologists predicting more of the same. The situation is particularly notable […]

China will relocate millions more people for Three Gorges Dam project

China may force another 2 million to 4 million people out of their homes over the next 10 to 15 years to make room for the reservoir building up behind […]

Blog Action Day

Happy Blog Action Day! To honor this occasion, we here at Gristmill are going to spend all day blogging about the environment.

California OKs bill to ban phthalates in kids’ products, and more

Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: The Thrill of It, Al Planet of the AEP Strike Up the Banned Report Barred Read the articles mentioned at […]

Reaper on the Prius

CW has a new show called Reaper, about a slacker whose parents sold his soul to the devil, who he now has to work for. It’s genial enough, funny in […]

California OKs bills to ban phthalates in kids’ products, and lead bullets in condor country

In an orgy of legislative activity, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) signed and vetoed a bunch of environmental bills this weekend. Among the most significant bills that got the Governator’s […]

Two enviro groups endorse their faves for U.S. president in ’08

Two prominent environmental groups announced their official picks in the race to the White House in 2008. Friends of the Earth Action, the politically overt arm of Friends of the […]

This week in ocean news

Some 1,700 acres of English coast will be transformed from farmland to a saltwater marsh at a cost of £12 million (about $24.4 million) ...

... researchers tagged and released bluefin tuna in the western Atlantic in an attempt to track the species' perilous decline ...

... a Silicon Valley company is developing a way to eliminate excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by consuming it during the production of cement, a process known as "carbon sequestering" ...

... rescuers worked five hours to save a basking shark that had washed up on an east Scotland beach, but the shark eventually succumbed ...

Al Gore and the IPCC win Nobel Peace Prize

It’s official: Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have won the Nobel Peace Prize “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate […]

Friday music blogging: Vampire Weekend

The music blogs are all abuzz about a new band called Vampire Weekend, based on a three-song EP (the full album comes out in Jan. ’08). I don’t think you […]