USM National Green Campus
News Archive
Week
of June 24, 2013
News
from Across the USM Campuses
Research:
Can Climate Change Heat Up Conflict? (UMD Right Now - Latest News, 6/21/13)
Gulf
'Dead Zone' Predicted For Summer 2013, Could Affect Chesapeake Bay As Well
(The Associated Press as reported by the Huffington Post, 6/18/13) [Article
quotes Dr. Donald F. Boesch, President of the University of Maryland Center for
Environmental Science]
Smaller
Chesapeake 'dead zone' forecast: Dry spring washes fewer pollutants into bay,
but scientist says cleanup efforts helping (By Tim Wheeler, The Baltimore
Sun - B'More Green Blog, 6/18/13) [Article cites work of University of Maryland
Center for Environmental Science staff and quotes Dr. Donald F. Boesch, President
of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science]
State
of Maryland News
Baltimore's
plastic bag curb widely ignored: Push on to replace ineffective law with fee on
plastic and paper (By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun - B'More Green
Blog, 6/24/13)
"King
tide" in Maryland this weekend, harbinger of sea level rise (By Jason
Samenow, The Washingotn Post - Capital Weather Gang, 6/21/13)
The Current
(Maryland Clean Energy Center Newsletter, June 2013)
National
and International News
"Fearless
Summer" movement launches months of intense climate protest (By Susie
Cagle, Grist.org, 6/21/13)
5,000 Missing in India
Floods: Scientists Say Global Warming is to Blame (By Sarah Lazare,
CommonDreams.org, 6/21/13)
Time
for the Fossil Fuel Industry to Pay for Their Waste (By The Daily Take -
The Thom Hartmann Program as reported by Truth-out.org, 6/20/13)
Buzzkill:
Huge bee die-off in Oregon parking lot blamed on insecticide spraying (By
John Upton, Grist.org, 6/20/13)
China
warns it will execute serious polluters (By John Upton, Grist.org, 6/20/13)
Life
in the Green Lane: Protected Bike Lanes Transform the Experience of Riding:
Protected
bike lanes, now called Green Lanes, are popping up from Miami to Long Beach,
Austin to Chicago.
(By Jay Walljasper, Alternet.org - Environment Blog, 6/18/13)
The
feds get seriously creepy about climate change (By Susie Cagle, Grist.org,
6/18/13)
‘Every
Plant And Tree Died': Huge Alberta Pipeline Spill Raises Safety Questions As
Keystone Decision Looms (By Kiley Kroh, ThinkProgress.org - Climate
Progress Blog, 6/18/13)
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