An expert on invasive species adjusts the ?Twelve Days of Christmas? lyrics to educate people about threats and prevention in the Great Lakes. [The Journal Sentinel]
American Electric Power will shut down its coal-burning boilers at Big Sandy, a power plant in Kentucky that has became a symbol of the plight of the coal industry nationwide. Stricter environmental rules are forcing large utilities to either spend billions to retrofit old coal-burning plants ? Big Sandy dates from the 1960s ? or to shut them down, usually replacing them with equipment that burns natural gas. [The New York Times]
Young tree-sitters and other protesters campaigning against the Keystone XL pipeline learn that the East Texas authorities are often willing to hand out hefty jail sentences. [Bloomberg News]
A grim travelogue details where ?climate change kills the most people.? With their vast populations, China and India rank No. 1 and 2; Nigeria ranks third, with the drought in the southern Sahara a growing factor. [The Wall Street Journal]
Urban carnivores of the nonhuman variety are on the rise, and not just because climate change and development are eroding their habitats. Their numbers have also risen because of conservation efforts, and the animals generally view humans as less threatening than they used to. [Popular Science]
Source: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/20/on-our-radar-twelve-quaggas-clogging/?partner=rss&emc=rss
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