Tropical glaciers slowly vanish: Rivers fed by melting glaciers across Latin America may soon dry up, forcing changes on the people who depend upon them. [CSM]
Scientists want to cut farm animal methane: Britain’s finest scientific minds have led the world investigating everything from stem cell technology to the fabric of space and time itself. But now they have turned their attention to the study of a problem that they claim is threatening the future of the entire planet – farm animal flatulence. [Telegraph]
A river to run through it again: Every evening, a 45-car train rumbles away from the Clark Fork River, loaded not with copper, gold or silver ore, but with the toxic legacy of more than a century of mining: tons of contaminated mud from behind an old dam. Workers are removing 2.2 million cubic yards of the muck — and dismantling the 101-year-old Milltown Dam — in a breathtakingly scenic part of Montana trout-fishing country celebrated in Norman Maclean’s novel “A River Runs Through It.” [LA Times]
Arctic Ice Returns, Thin and Tentative: Arctic ice has reformed rapidly this winter after a record summer low, but it still covers less of the Arctic Ocean than it did in previous decades, NASA scientists announced today in an update of the states of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice. [Live Science]
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