Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Green Blog: On Our Radar: Rising Floodwaters in Australia

Helicopter rescue crews try to reach hundreds of people trapped by rising floodwaters in the Australian state of Queensland after a cyclone and heavy rains. [BBC]

Enbridge takes issue with an Environmental Protection Agency proposal that it dredge 80 to 100 acres of the Kalamazoo River bed in Michigan to remove contamination from a 2010 oil spill from one of the company?s pipelines. [InsideClimate News]

Oil spills into the Mississippi River after two oil barges hit a bridge near Vicksburg, Miss. The Coast Guard says the source of the spill has been contained. [The Los Angeles Times]

Facing criticism over not rescuing a dolphin that swam up New York City?s toxic Gowanus Canal, the leader of a marine mammal rescue group says the animal?s best chance of survival lay in the group?s not intervening. The dolphin died Friday evening, about four hours after the group, the Riverhead Foundation, arrived at the scene. [The New York Times]

To the dismay of park officials, the swelling numbers of elk in the Grand Canyon seem to have lost their fear of humans. [Associated Press]

Source: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/28/on-our-radar-rising-floodwaters-in-australia/?partner=rss&emc=rss

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