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2005 Aug 3 |
In Canada 43 of 140 train cars left the tracks at Wabamun, Alberta. Some of the cars contained bunker fuel oil, used in liquid asphalt and to power barges and ships. 15 of those cars, as well as a car full of lubricating oil, began to leak into Wabamun lake. Links: Canada, Oil, Environment 
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2005 Aug 5 |
In Indonesia Denver-based mining giant Newmont went on trial in a high-profile legal battle over charges its Indonesian unit, Newmont Minahasa Raya, dumped toxic waste and polluted Buyat Bay in North Sulawesi, causing health problems to residents. Links: Indonesia, Environment, Colorado
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2005 Aug 5 |
A CN Rail freight trail derailed about 30 kilometers north of Squamish, BC, sending 9 cars plunging into the Cheakamus River canyon and causing a toxic spill. One of the derailed cars was loaded with about 51,000 liters of sodium hydroxide, a highly corrosive liquid. Links: Canada, Environment
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2005 Aug 16 |
The Bush administration reduced the estimated value of recreation in national forests from $111 billion to $11 billion. Environmentalists warned the new Forest Service assessment could be used to justify increased logging. Links: USA, Environment
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2005 Aug 17 |
Australian scientists said that cyclone Ingrid, which lashed northeastern Australia in March, inflicted damage on 10 per cent of the Great Barrier Reef. Links: Australia, Environment
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2005 Aug 17 |
Researchers from Greenpeace Int’l reported that toxic waste from electronic devices discarded in the US and dismantled in China and India was posing a sever problem around Guiyu, China, and New Delhi, India. Links: China, India, Environment
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2005 Aug 20 |
Protesters demanding the closure of an eastern China battery factory they say is spewing lead into the environment clashed with police, and dozens of people were injured. Links: China, Environment
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2005 Aug 23 |
The Bush administration announced new rules for the corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, first created in the 1970s. Links: USA, Environment, Cars
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2005 Aug 24 |
The New York Times reported that officials in nine northeastern US states have reached a preliminary agreement to freeze power plant emissions at their current levels and then reduce them by 10 percent by 2020. Links: USA, Environment
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2005 Aug 26 |
India’s Maharashtra government planned to ban most plastic bags, blaming them for choking drains and causing floods a month ago that left more than 1,000 people dead. Links: India, Environment
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2005 Aug 29 |
Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast near Buras, La., as a Category 3 storm. Katrina ripped two holes in the curved roof of the Louisiana Superdome, letting in rain as thousands of storm refugees huddled inside. In Mississippi many of the 13 floating casinos in Biloxi and Gulfport smashed historic homes and buildings. The Grand Casino Biloxi destroyed the historic Hotel Tivoli. Storm surges and winds from Katrina unleashed at least 40 oil spills and some 193,000 barrels of oil and other petrochemicals were driven across fragile marshy ecosystems southeast of New Orleans. The death toll from Katrina eventually reached at least 1,600. An estimated 300 Louisiana residents died out of state; some 230 people perished in Mississippi. Property damage estimates were in the hundreds of billions of dollars. Links: USA, Environment, Louisiana, Mississippi, WeatherUS, Hurricane
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2005 Sep 9 2005 Sep 11 |
The Sierra Club’s 1st National Environmental Convention & Expo was held at the SF Moscone Center. Links: Environment, SF, Expo
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2005 Sep 12 |
An international environmental group warned that only 887 hippos are left in Congo, and that they will be extinct in the African country. The latest aerial survey puts the hippopotamus population in northeastern Congo's Virunga National Park down to under 1,000 animals, compared to some 29,000 in 1974. Links: Environment, CongoDRC, Animal, Extinction
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2005 Sep 16 |
The UN said the hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica has grown to near record size this year, suggesting 20 years of pollution controls have so far had little effect. Links: Environment, UN, Antarctica
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2005 Sep 19 |
The World Wildlife Federation said severely depleted cod stocks in the Grand Banks off Canada's east coast face being totally wiped out by illegal fishing. Links: Canada, Environment, Fish
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2005 Sep 22 |
In California the Alameda County County supervisors adopted a plan to close the half the wind turbines from Nov 1 to the end of February to protect migratory birds. Some 4,700 birds were being killed each year by the Altamont Pass wind farms. Links: California, Environment, Animal, SF Bay Area
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2005 Sep 25 |
In Australia 20 high-tech solar-powered cars from 10 countries set off on a 3,000 kilometer (1,860 mile) race across the vast outback in the 8th World Solar Challenge. The Nuna team of the Delft University of Technology from the Netherlands scored a hat-trick with their third victory in a row; their Nuna 3 won with a record average speed of 103 km/h. Links: Australia, Environment, Cars
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2005 Sep 27 |
In Colombia government spraying of coca plant killer was reported to be driving growers and traffickers out of their usual territory into national parks where spraying is banned. Here they are burning thousands of acres of virgin rain forest and poisoning rivers with chemicals. Links: Colombia, Environment
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2005 Oct 1 |
In South Korea Seoul's Mayor Lee Myung-bak led a ceremony for the re-opening of the Chonggyechon stream buried beneath an elevated highway for almost 50 years. Work to restore about 6 km of the stream began in July, 2003, at a cost of around $350 million. The stream flows through a narrow park that celebrates the history of Seoul. Links: Environment, South Korea
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2005 Oct 2 |
The US ambassador urged Colombia to spray weed killer inside the country's spectacular nature parks to destroy cocaine-producing crops, insisting the chemicals will not cause widespread damage to the reserves' ecosystems. Links: USA, Environment, Colorado
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2005 Oct 3 |
Bishop Luiz Flavio Cappio (59), a Catholic bishop on a hunger strike to protest plans to alter the course of a river to irrigate parts of Brazil's arid northeast, said he was "ready to die" if the project goes forward. Pres. Lula da Silva, who was born in one of the drought stricken regions that would benefit from the altered course of the Sao Francisco River, wrote the bishop a letter saying the $2 billion project will help 18 million people in northeastern Brazil. Links: Brazil, Environment
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2005 Oct 4 |
A Philippine provincial government filed a lawsuit in Nevada accusing Canadian mining giant Placer Dome Inc. of damaging the environment and health of residents of an island about 100 miles south of Manila. Placer Dome was blamed for a March 1996 environmental accident that sent millions of tons of open-pit copper mine waste down a river to the Marinduque capital, Boac. Links: Canada, Philippines, Environment, Nevada
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2005 Oct 11 |
Google unveiled Google.org, an umbrella organization for its philanthropic plans, committing nearly $1 billion to help solve problems including poverty and environmental destruction. Links: Environment, Internet, Donation
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2005 Oct 12 |
A build up of pollution from factories and old cars caused a wave of smog that enveloped much of Lagos, Nigeria's largest city. Links: Environment, Nigeria
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2005 Oct 15 |
In Texas the Government Canyon State Natural Area officially opened. The over 8,600 acre area was set aside to protect the Edwards Aquifer, which provided drinking water for San Antonio. Links: USA, Environment, Texas
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2005 Oct 18 |
An environmental watchdog alleged that Chinese logging companies in Myanmar have illegally exported huge amounts of timber in collusion with the military government and ethnic guerrillas, destroying ecologically unique forest areas. Links: China, Environment, Myanmar, Trees
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2005 Oct 19 |
Environmentalists sued the US Navy alleging that a widely used from of sonar for detecting enemy submarines disturbs and sometimes kills whales and dolphins. Links: USA, Environment, Whales
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2005 Oct 19 |
In China Tan Kai was taken into custody in the eastern city of Hangzhou. He was detained after he opened a bank account as part of efforts to register an environmental group, "Green Watch." He went on trial in May, 2006, on alleged charges of stealing state secrets, which stemmed from repairs he did on a computer belonging to a member of the provincial Communist Party committee. Links: China, Environment
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2005 Oct 24 |
Zhang Lijun, vice minister of China’s State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) said China cannot withstand pollution levels expected to quadruple over the next 15 years under current trends in energy and automobile use. Links: China, Environment
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2005 Nov 2 |
SF officials struck a deal with large supermarket chains to reduce by 10 million the number of plastic grocery bags given to shoppers by the end of the year. Links: Environment, SF
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2005 Nov 3 |
The Environmental Investigation Agency, a London-based environmental watchdog said US businesses are unwittingly importing illegal Honduran wood, contributing to deforestation, corruption and social strife in the Latin American country. Links: Honduras, Environment, Trees
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2005 Nov 10 |
A UN agency said thousands of contaminated industrial and military sites left over from wars in Iraq must urgently be cleaned up to stop them from further harming people's health and the environment. Links: Iraq, Environment, UN
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2005 Nov 14 |
The Economist presented its annual awards to innovators in 7 categories. The winners were: Bioscience: Herbert Boyer, co-founder of Genentech, and Stanley Cohen, Stanford Prof. of Genetics; Computing and communications: Sergey Brin and Larry Page , co-founders of Google; Energy and the environment: Stanford Ovshinsky, president and chief scientist for Energy conversion Devices; Social and economic innovation: Victoria Hale, CEO of Institute for OneWorldHealth; Business process innovation: Alpheus Bingham, chairman of InnoCentive, an online forum for solution seekers; Consumer products: the iPod team at Apple Corp.; No boundaries: Fujio Masuoka, professor at Tohoku Univ. for the invention of flash memory. Links: Environment, Medical, Computer, Internet, BioTech, Economics, Magazine
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2005 Nov 16 |
Kentucky reported that drainage from land disturbed by mining and road construction has caused acid levels to rise beyond acceptable levels in portions of at least 35 streams across the state, killing fish and insects. Links: USA, Environment, Kentucky, Fish
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2005 Nov 17 |
Greenpeace activists in small inflatable boats stopped a ship carrying genetically engineered soybean meal from unloading in a Polish port. Greenpeace says genetically engineered soy is causing massive environmental problems in Argentina, including deforestation, a dramatic increase in the use of toxic herbicides and soil infertility. Links: Poland, Environment, BioTech, Agriculture
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2005 Nov 22 |
China’s northeastern city of Harbin said its water system will be shut down for four days to check for contamination from a Nov. 13 chemical plant explosion, setting off panic buying of bottled water among its 3 million residents. Links: China, Environment
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2005 Nov 24 |
In China a slick of river-borne toxins from a chemical plant explosion flowed into Harbin as the government dug wells after shutting down its water system to protect residents. A 50-mile-long patch of water carrying toxic benzene began entering Harbin, a city of 3.8 million people in China's northeast, before dawn. A chemical plant explosion Nov. 13 in the nearby city of Jilin spewed toxic benzene into the Songhua River. Links: China, Environment
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2005 Nov 24 |
In southwestern China an explosion at the Yingte Chemical Company in Dianjiang killed one worker. This prompted fears of a 2nd benzene leak and warnings to residents not to drink river water. Links: China, Environment
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2005 Nov 25 |
Members of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) gave the title of "endangered" to 11 new species. Links: Environment, Animal
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2005 Nov 25 |
The European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica reported that carbon dioxide in the current atmosphere is greater than at any time during the last 650,000 years. Links: Environment, Antarctica
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2005 Nov 27 |
Running water was restored in Harbin, China, a city of 3.8 million people where a chemical spill forced a 5-day shutdown. Officials warned it was not immediately safe to drink. Links: China, Environment
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2005 Nov 28 |
Thousands of environmentalists and government officials from around the world gathered in Montreal for a UN conference to brainstorm on how to slow the effects of greenhouses gases and global warming. The US defended its decision not to sign the Kyoto Protocol, saying during the opening of a global summit on climate change that it is doing more than most countries to protect the earth's atmosphere. Links: Canada, USA, Environment, UN
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2005 Nov 30 |
Dalianhe, China, shut down its water system as a toxic slick caused by the Nov 13 chemical plant explosion at Jilin arrived on the Songhua River. Links: China, Environment
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2005 Nov |
Congolese soldiers engaged in a 6-day operation to clear militias from Virunga National Park. 14 rebels were killed and 321 captured. Links: Environment, CongoDRC
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2005 Nov 2005 Dec |
In San Francisco between 39,488 and 53,988 gallons of diesel fuel leaked over 4 weeks from an underground storage tank at the John Muir Motor Coach yard at 1095 Indiana St. Muni workers had disabled an alarm system that would have warned of the leak. In 2009 the US EPA sought a $250,000 settlement for the leak which allowed fuel to enter a storm drain leading the SF Bay. Links: USA, Oil, Environment, SF
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2005 Dec 1 |
Russian press said the Far East city of Khabarovsk, in the path of a toxic spill from a Chinese plant explosion, has enough drinking water reserves to last more than 10 days. Links: Russia, China, Environment
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2005 Dec 1 |
Scientists reported that current flow in the Atlantic had slowed 30% over the past 5 decades. Computer models had predicted that global warming could disrupt the way Earth regulates heat. Links: Environment, Earth
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2005 Dec 2 |
Jiamusi, a second city in northeast China, shut down a water plant on a poisoned river, fearing contamination from the approaching toxic chemicals. The slick on the Amur River, which is fed by the Songhua River, originally 50 miles long, now stretched for 90 miles. Links: China, Environment
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2005 Dec 3 |
In Canada tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Montreal, host of the UN Climate Change Conference, to demand that governments worldwide take concrete measures against global warming. Links: Canada, Environment, UN
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2005 Dec 7 |
The EU and host Canada piled pressure on the US to join an international pact to curb greenhouse gas emissions and limit the predicted chaos from global warming. Links: Canada, USA, EU, Environment
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2005 Dec 7 |
US Congress voted to add nearly 5,000 acres of Rancho Corral de Tiera, an area between Half Moon Bay and Pacifica, to California’s Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Congress still needed to appropriate $15 million to buy the land from the Peninsula Open Space Trust. Links: USA, California, Environment
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2005 Dec 8 |
Scientists said as wetlands disappear and shorelines are degraded, the Great Lakes are losing their ability to cope with environmental stress and ward off a catastrophic breakdown. Links: Canada, USA, Environment, Michigan
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2005 Dec 9 |
Former US Pres. Clinton called Bush’s global warming stance “flat wrong” while speaking at the climate conference in Montreal. Links: USA, Environment, BushGW, ClintonB
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2005 Dec 10 |
In Canada more than 150 nations agreed to launch formal talks on mandatory post-2012 reductions in greenhouse gases, talks that will exclude an unwilling US. The agenda item on “Reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries and approaches to stimulate action” was first introduced into the Conference of the Parties (COP) agenda at its eleventh session in Montreal. The Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation plan became known as REDD. Links: Canada, USA, Environment, Trees
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2005 Dec 14 |
A US government watchdog group warned that Congress must enact a national system for recycling used electronic devices or the problem of e-waste will pose serious environmental risks. Links: USA, Environment
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2005 Dec 14 |
DuPont Co. said it has agreed to pay $10.25 million in fines and $6.25 million for environmental projects to settle allegations by the Environmental Protection Agency that the company hid information about the dangers of a toxic chemical used to make the non-stick coating Teflon. This was the largest civil penalty in the EPA’s history. Links: USA, Environment, Big Money
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2005 Dec 15 |
The US Interior Dept. said it plans to open 20 million acres in 9 Western states to wind farms. Links: USA, Environment
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2005 Dec 18 |
In China authorities ordered a smelter in Shaoguan to halt the discharge of waste into the Bei River that contained an unusual amount of cadmium. Links: China, Environment
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2005 Dec 19 |
US House lawmakers opened the way for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and approved $29 billion for hurricane relief during an all-night session bringing their legislative year to a close. The budget package included $454.3 billion for defense. Links: USA, Oil, Environment
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2005 Dec 19 |
A World Bank fund signed deals to buy pollution credits from two Chinese chemical companies for $930 million under a plan that lets richer countries meet commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions by paying for reductions in poorer economies. Links: China, Environment, World Bank
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