Tuesday, March 18, 2008

03/17/2008 TO Enviro-news

Glaciers Suffer Record Shrinkage
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/031708EA.shtml
BBC News reports: "The rate at which some of the world's glaciers are melting has more than doubled, data from the United Nations Environment Programme has shown."

Chinook Salmon Vanish Without a Trace
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/031708EB.shtml
Felicity Barringer of The New York Times says, "The chinook salmon that swim upstream to spawn in the fall, the most robust run in the Sacramento River, have disappeared. The almost complete collapse of the richest and most dependable source of chinook salmon south of Alaska left gloomy fisheries experts struggling for reliable explanations - and coming up dry."

Ian Bowles | Want to Buy Some Pollution?
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/031708EC.shtml
In The New York Times, Ian Bowles writes: "Later this year, Massachusetts and other Northeastern states will hold the nation's first auction of greenhouse gas emissions permits. Congress should take note: this market-based, technology-neutral auction is a model for how to encourage power generators to limit their emissions."

CEOs See Green Energy Policies Preserving US Jobs
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/031708LA.shtml
Nichola Groom of Reuters reports: "It's not often you hear executives from the biggest US industries and a Republican governor clamoring for stronger regulations on climate change. But that's exactly what they want."

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